Hi There,
Im using a Chromecast as audio sink for TTS. Works very good.
But when i am streaming any media the Chromecast does not resume the stream after the “say” command.
I want to do this manually in a rule but it seems that the “playurl” channel is just a receiver and has no url when startet externally.
How can i resume the chromecast playback after a TTS command?
best regards
Dominik
Has nobody an idea to resume the Chromecast?
Hi
I had forgotten that I’d programmed a doorbell sound to trigger on one of my Chomecast units.
This has worked well, until I was listening to the radio recently, when the doorbell was pressed (have these people no respect???)
So it got me wondering how I could get the Chromecast to resume.
With NodeRed it turned out to be quite easy.
I assume I could translate this to DSL if I needed to.
For anyone that is interested, here is the flow I used.
[
{
"id": "6e725766.ab4968",
"type": "function",
"z": "4747cc78.4ab0f4",
"name": "Doorbell",
"func": "var event = msg.payload.event;\nvar channel = msg.payload.channel;\nvar newMsg = { payload: msg.payload.event };\nvar button = \"velbus:vmb7in:d212bf44:0A:input#CH7\"\n\nif (channel === button ) {\n\tif (event === \"PRESSED\") {\n\t\treturn [newMsg, null, null];\n\t}\n\tif (event === \"LONG_PRESSED\") {\n\t\treturn [null, newMsg, null];\n\t}\n\tif (event === \"RELEASED\") {\n\t\treturn [null, null, newMsg];\n\t}\n}\nreturn null;\n",
"outputs": 3,
"noerr": 0,
"x": 180,
"y": 540,
"wires": [
[
"481e9802.be1b78"
],
[],
[]
]
},
{
"id": "4496d800.d07ea8",
"type": "inject",
"z": "4747cc78.4ab0f4",
"name": "",
"topic": "",
"payload": "",
"payloadType": "str",
"repeat": "",
"crontab": "",
"once": false,
"onceDelay": 0.1,
"x": 210,
"y": 600,
"wires": [
[
"481e9802.be1b78"
]
]
},
{
"id": "481e9802.be1b78",
"type": "openhab2-get",
"z": "4747cc78.4ab0f4",
"name": "Bathroom ChromeCast Status?",
"controller": "deaa963.282a968",
"itemname": "Bathroom_Control_Chromecast",
"x": 477,
"y": 528,
"wires": [
[
"e2abadf2.30004",
"d2b90b8d.111c48"
]
]
},
{
"id": "d2b90b8d.111c48",
"type": "switch",
"z": "4747cc78.4ab0f4",
"name": "Is Playing?",
"property": "payload.state",
"propertyType": "msg",
"rules": [
{
"t": "eq",
"v": "PLAY",
"vt": "str"
},
{
"t": "neq",
"v": "PLAY",
"vt": "str"
}
],
"checkall": "true",
"repair": false,
"outputs": 2,
"x": 490,
"y": 600,
"wires": [
[
"2a5d3dfa.1d0b42"
],
[
"cd67cdc5.72d6a"
]
]
},
{
"id": "e2abadf2.30004",
"type": "debug",
"z": "4747cc78.4ab0f4",
"name": "",
"active": true,
"tosidebar": true,
"console": false,
"tostatus": true,
"complete": "payload.state",
"targetType": "msg",
"x": 770,
"y": 500,
"wires": []
},
{
"id": "2a5d3dfa.1d0b42",
"type": "openhab2-get",
"z": "4747cc78.4ab0f4",
"name": "Bathroom Current URL",
"controller": "deaa963.282a968",
"itemname": "Bathroom_PlayURI",
"x": 760,
"y": 600,
"wires": [
[
"45c12f4a.4d65d",
"704a3997.03f108",
"cd67cdc5.72d6a"
]
]
},
{
"id": "cd67cdc5.72d6a",
"type": "openhab2-out",
"z": "4747cc78.4ab0f4",
"name": "Bathroom Play URl - Doorbell",
"controller": "deaa963.282a968",
"itemname": "Bathroom_PlayURI",
"topic": "ItemCommand",
"payload": "http://192.168.178.42:8080/static/sounds/doorbell.mp3",
"x": 510,
"y": 700,
"wires": [
[]
]
},
{
"id": "704a3997.03f108",
"type": "change",
"z": "4747cc78.4ab0f4",
"name": "Move .state to payload",
"rules": [
{
"t": "move",
"p": "payload.state",
"pt": "msg",
"to": "payload",
"tot": "msg"
}
],
"action": "",
"property": "",
"from": "",
"to": "",
"reg": false,
"x": 840,
"y": 720,
"wires": [
[
"46632c0.1fe92d4"
]
]
},
{
"id": "45c12f4a.4d65d",
"type": "debug",
"z": "4747cc78.4ab0f4",
"name": "",
"active": true,
"tosidebar": true,
"console": false,
"tostatus": true,
"complete": "payload.state",
"targetType": "msg",
"x": 1050,
"y": 600,
"wires": []
},
{
"id": "46632c0.1fe92d4",
"type": "delay",
"z": "4747cc78.4ab0f4",
"name": "",
"pauseType": "delay",
"timeout": "4",
"timeoutUnits": "seconds",
"rate": "1",
"nbRateUnits": "1",
"rateUnits": "second",
"randomFirst": "1",
"randomLast": "5",
"randomUnits": "seconds",
"drop": false,
"x": 1060,
"y": 720,
"wires": [
[
"fbf6842a.089448"
]
]
},
{
"id": "fbf6842a.089448",
"type": "openhab2-out",
"z": "4747cc78.4ab0f4",
"name": "Bathroom Play Previous URL",
"controller": "deaa963.282a968",
"itemname": "Bathroom_PlayURI",
"topic": "ItemCommand",
"payload": "",
"x": 920,
"y": 800,
"wires": [
[]
]
}
]
Here’s the logic that I applied :
Something is the doorbell trigger - In my case a Velbus button event, which has to be filtered from the openHAB2 events, rather than an openHAB2 Item change
Is the ChromeCast playing or paused?
If Paused / Stopped, - Just play the doorbell sound
If Playing -
Capture currently playing URL
– Then play the doorbell (so that the doorbell URL isn’t the information captured)
Move the Previous URL from msg.payload.state to msp.payload
Delay the message (I choose 4 seconds)
Restore the Previous URL to the Chromecast
You could have made a rule to send a TTS back to the doorbell (which ofcouse has intercom), telling these people to get lost, while you´re listning to the radio
Hit it!
I could, but it might be our friendly postman, and as they do a difficult job anyway, I wouldn’t want to upset him.
Yeah, because I’ve got nothing else taking up my time…
Thats exactly what I thought 
items
String LivingRoomSpeaker_Playuri_backup "Play uri backup"
rule
when
Item received command
then
if (LivingRoomSpeaker_AppId.state == "CC1AD845" && LivingRoomSpeaker_Control.state == PLAY) {
LivingRoomSpeaker_Playuri_backup.postUpdate(LivingRoomSpeaker_Playuri.state)
playSound("doorbell.mp3")
Thread::sleep(3000)
LivingRoomSpeaker_Playuri.sendCommand(LivingRoomSpeaker_Playuri_backup.state.toString)
LivingRoomSpeaker_Control.sendCommand(PLAY) }
else {playSound("barking.mp3")}
endUnfortunately this trick doesn’t work when currently playing something from youtube
Only
AppId: CC1AD845
App: Default Media Receiver
So there is still no solution for all types of media? (e.g. GPM, YT, YTM)