Openhab 2 Squeezebox Text to speech?

Christoph_B · February 17, 2017, 6:20pm

I’ve set it up, but if I try smarthome:voice say Hello the command takes around 15 secs without any audible output.

The log says:

2017-02-17 19:16:14.472 [ItemStateChangedEvent ] - MobilLautsprecher_Control changed from PAUSE to PLAY
2017-02-17 19:16:14.785 [ItemStateChangedEvent ] - MobilLautsprecher_PlaylistIndex changed from 1 to 2
2017-02-17 19:16:44.303 [ItemStateChangedEvent ] - MobilLautsprecher_Volume changed from 27 to 0
2017-02-17 19:16:44.423 [ItemStateChangedEvent ] - MobilLautsprecher_Control changed from PLAY to PAUSE
2017-02-17 19:16:44.746 [ItemStateChangedEvent ] - MobilLautsprecher_PlaylistIndex changed from 2 to 1
2017-02-17 19:16:44.841 [ItemStateChangedEvent ] - MobilLautsprecher_Volume changed from 0 to 27

Is there any way to set the volume?

Also I got a log message like this:
2017-02-17 19:16:44.284 [WARN ] [ebox.handler.SqueezeBoxPlayerHandler] - TIMEOUT after 30000 waiting for stop!

@mhilbush any idea what’s wrong?

I’ve selected voicerss and one of the players as sink, chose a voice and set the api key in the voicerrs file.

mhilbush · February 17, 2017, 8:55pm

What device are you using as a player? By any chance are you running squeezelite (or piCorePlayer, which uses squeezelite)?

Christoph_B · February 17, 2017, 9:11pm

The players use moode audio - it’s working normally outside of openhab. But yes, it uses squeezelite I think.
The version is 1.8.5 - which does not work as far as I read above?

mhilbush · February 17, 2017, 9:34pm

Yes, squeezelite versions after 1.7 have a defect that causes short duration MP3’s to fail. What you are seeing above is exactly the symptom of that problem.

There’s some discussion on this issue here.

I found a temporary workaround for the issue. Another forum member, @g_g_rich, was kind enough to build a version of squeezelite for piCorePlayer with the workaround for the issue until Ralphy can do a proper fix. Not sure if this would work for you (I don’t know much about moode audio).

You also could post a “me too” issue here, which may help with prioritizing a permanent fix.
http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?97046-Announce-Squeezelite-a-small-headless-squeezeplay-emulator-for-linux-(alsa-only)&p=875087&viewfull=1#post875087

Edit: Just read a little about moode audio – looks pretty nice. Perhaps you also could contact the moode audio developer to explain the issue you’re having with squeezelite. He might be able to help with a fix.

mrwee · February 17, 2017, 9:49pm

Just found this binding and it’s working perfectly. When the doorbell is activated, a rule plays a tune on our Squeezebox radios. It does take some time and sounds a bit funny, as it goes through them one-by-one. Maybe sync’ing them could be the answer.

mrwee · February 17, 2017, 9:50pm

Another question: It is possible for OH2 to react to the alarmclock going off on one of the radios? I’d like to stay with using the built-in alarmclock, but OH2 could then turn on the lights etc.

mhilbush · February 17, 2017, 10:20pm

Thanks for the feedback.

Yeah, I know. I’m not aware of a way to play the notifications concurrently on multiple players (other than creating a rule to sync the players, play the notification, and then unsync the players). Note that I haven’t done this yet myself, so I don’t know how well it will work.

I’m not sure about this, but it’s a nice idea. I was going to take a look at implementing alarms, in general. I’ll keep this idea in mind. But I won’t be able to start looking at alarms for at least a few weeks.

mrwee · February 18, 2017, 5:45pm

No worries. I really appreciate all the work you’ve done (Even though the Squeezebox’es are EOL )

Christoph_B · February 18, 2017, 5:48pm

Thanks a lot for the explanation! That’s a pity!
I’ll have a look and try to push it

staehler67 · March 26, 2017, 5:01pm

@mhilbush I tried your audio sink enhancement with my squeezebox3 player, but unfortunately I get a error message on my squeezebox3 player.

#karaf
openhab> smarthome:voice say Hello world!

The display of my squeezebox shows:
Error playlist is empt
This error message is translated from german and may therefore differ from known error message.

My logfile shows

sq_wohnen_title changed from La Muralla to http://192.168.yy.xx:8080/audio/3e57f5cd-59c5-4681-9c90-e4e294e87664.wav

which looks quite OK (replaced IP adrdress yy.xx). After a silence pause the squeezeplayer starts with a new song.
Do you have an idea, what goes wrong? It doesn’t play the doorbell.mp3 as well?

Any hint is appreciated.

PS: my default tts service is marytts:bits3hsmm bits3-hsmm - Deutsch

mhilbush · March 26, 2017, 5:32pm

I’ve not seen that behavior before. The best thing would be to put the binding into debug mode, then post the log file entries.

From the karaf console, you would enter:

log:set DEBUG org.openhab.binding.squeezebox

To end debug mode, you would enter:

log:set INFO org.openhab.binding.squeezebox

staehler67 · March 26, 2017, 5:41pm

My openhab.log

2017-03-26 19:35:15.851 [DEBUG] [eezebox.internal.SqueezeBoxAudioSink] - Processing audioStream http://192.168.2.5:8080/audio/1775f3ec-58be-43ad-81b2-051111db3ea7.wav of format AudioFormat [codec=PCM_SIGNED, container=WAVE, bigEndian=false, bitDepth=16, bitRate=256000, frequency=16000]
2017-03-26 19:35:15.857 [DEBUG] [ebox.handler.SqueezeBoxPlayerHandler] - Play notification sound on player 00:04:20:06:21:aa at URI http://192.168.2.5:8080/audio/1775f3ec-58be-43ad-81b2-051111db3ea7.wav
2017-03-26 19:35:15.857 [DEBUG] [ebox.handler.SqueezeBoxPlayerHandler] - Cur State: vol=50, mut=NOT MUTED, pwr=ON, stp=NOT STOPPED, ctl=PLAYING, shf=OFF, rpt=PLAYLIST, tix=5, tnm=47, tim=30
2017-03-26 19:35:15.858 [DEBUG] [ebox.handler.SqueezeBoxPlayerHandler] - Setting up player for notification
2017-03-26 19:35:15.858 [DEBUG] [ebox.handler.SqueezeBoxPlayerHandler] - Turning off repeat
2017-03-26 19:35:15.859 [DEBUG] [ebox.handler.SqueezeBoxServerHandler] - Sending command: 00:04:20:06:21:aa playlist repeat 0
2017-03-26 19:35:15.859 [DEBUG] [ebox.handler.SqueezeBoxServerHandler] - Sending command: 00:04:20:06:21:aa stop
2017-03-26 19:35:15.860 [DEBUG] [ebox.handler.SqueezeBoxServerHandler] - Sending command: 00:04:20:06:21:aa mixer volume 50
2017-03-26 19:35:17.963 [DEBUG] [ebox.handler.SqueezeBoxPlayerHandler] - Done waiting 2100 ms for volume to update
2017-03-26 19:35:17.964 [DEBUG] [ebox.handler.SqueezeBoxPlayerHandler] - Playing notification
2017-03-26 19:35:17.964 [DEBUG] [ebox.handler.SqueezeBoxServerHandler] - Sending command: 00:04:20:06:21:aa playlist add http://192.168.2.5:8080/audio/1775f3ec-58be-43ad-81b2-051111db3ea7.wav
2017-03-26 19:35:18.365 [DEBUG] [ebox.handler.SqueezeBoxPlayerHandler] - Done waiting 400 ms for playlist to update
2017-03-26 19:35:18.365 [DEBUG] [ebox.handler.SqueezeBoxServerHandler] - Sending command: 00:04:20:06:21:aa playlist index 47
2017-03-26 19:35:48.389 [WARN ] [ebox.handler.SqueezeBoxPlayerHandler] - TIMEOUT after 30000 waiting for stop!
2017-03-26 19:35:48.389 [DEBUG] [ebox.handler.SqueezeBoxPlayerHandler] - Restoring player state
2017-03-26 19:35:48.390 [DEBUG] [ebox.handler.SqueezeBoxServerHandler] - Sending command: 00:04:20:06:21:aa mixer volume 0
2017-03-26 19:35:48.490 [DEBUG] [ebox.handler.SqueezeBoxPlayerHandler] - Done waiting 100 ms for volume to update
2017-03-26 19:35:48.490 [DEBUG] [ebox.handler.SqueezeBoxServerHandler] - Sending command: 00:04:20:06:21:aa playlist delete 47
2017-03-26 19:35:53.495 [WARN ] [ebox.handler.SqueezeBoxPlayerHandler] - TIMEOUT after 5000 waiting for playlist to update!
2017-03-26 19:35:53.495 [DEBUG] [ebox.handler.SqueezeBoxPlayerHandler] - Resuming last item playing
2017-03-26 19:35:53.495 [DEBUG] [ebox.handler.SqueezeBoxServerHandler] - Sending command: 00:04:20:06:21:aa playlist index 5
2017-03-26 19:35:54.397 [DEBUG] [ebox.handler.SqueezeBoxPlayerHandler] - Done waiting 900 ms for playlist to update
2017-03-26 19:35:54.397 [DEBUG] [ebox.handler.SqueezeBoxServerHandler] - Sending command: 00:04:20:06:21:aa time 30
2017-03-26 19:35:54.397 [DEBUG] [ebox.handler.SqueezeBoxPlayerHandler] - Playing the playlist item
2017-03-26 19:35:54.398 [DEBUG] [ebox.handler.SqueezeBoxServerHandler] - Sending command: 00:04:20:06:21:aa mixer volume 50
2017-03-26 19:35:54.598 [DEBUG] [ebox.handler.SqueezeBoxPlayerHandler] - Done waiting 200 ms for volume to update
2017-03-26 19:35:54.598 [DEBUG] [ebox.handler.SqueezeBoxPlayerHandler] - Restoring repeat mode
2017-03-26 19:35:54.599 [DEBUG] [ebox.handler.SqueezeBoxServerHandler] - Sending command: 00:04:20:06:21:aa playlist repeat 2
2017-03-26 19:36:00.159 [DEBUG] [ebox.handler.SqueezeBoxServerHandler] - Sending command: players 0

Where should I find this file
http://192.168.2.5:8080/audio/1775f3ec-58be-43ad-81b2-051111db3ea7.wav
file? openhab2 runs as user openhab, Could this be a problem with file or folder permissions?

mhilbush · March 26, 2017, 5:44pm

What player are you using? By any chance does it use squeezelite. For example, piCorePlayer uses squeezelite.

I think it’s in userdata/voicerss/cache

mhilbush · March 26, 2017, 5:45pm

Duh. Nevermind. You said you were using MaryTTS…

Oli · March 26, 2017, 5:56pm

Umm…I could not get marytts to work with my squeezeserver and i think it’s due to the fact it delivers a .wav file to the server which it can’t handle; voicerrs delivering a .mp3 works flawless.

mhilbush · March 26, 2017, 6:03pm

Hmm. I thought LMS supported WAV files. But, I honestly have never tried to play a WAV using LMS.

staehler67 · March 26, 2017, 6:07pm

Well, I could try another tts service, but as mentioned above it does also not play doorbell.mp3

I only have the hardware squeezebox player, no squeezelite.

Oli · March 26, 2017, 6:10pm

Well it supports it in general - it just needs to be set up. F.e. on mine (LMS running on Synolgy NAS) from the experience with marytts it is not set up. Somewhere deep down in the LMS config page i saw it’s missing lame…just thought I’s mention this befor you search an error in the binding while it’s serverside…

mhilbush · March 26, 2017, 6:12pm

Do you see the same behavior in the log file when you play the doorbell.mp3? Are you playing doorbell.mp3 from a rule, and are you using this syntax?

// Play the sound on the default sink
playsound("doorbell.mp3")

// Play the sound on a specific sink
playsound("squeezebox:squeezeboxplayer:5919BEA2-764B-4590-BC70-D74DCC15491B:20cfbf221510", "doorbell.mp3")

mhilbush · March 26, 2017, 6:13pm

Good point, but he also says it’s not playing the doorbell sound, which is an mp3. Also could be two different issues…