Problem with playSound function

Setup, Configuration and Use Beginners
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Hi, Sorry for my English. A have a problem with playSound function in openhab rule. Openhab is installed in raspberry pi 2. I try to play some sound on raspberry (3.5 mini-jack) from Sound folder by using playSound(“name.wav”) in rule file, but it doesnt work. I can show detailed logs only tomorrow, but maybe somebody knows why it doesnt work?
thank

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I have the same problem:

playSound("doorbell.wav") returns 2016-02-19 12:23:42.109 [ERROR] [.o.io.multimedia.actions.Audio] - Cannot play sound 'doorbell.wav': sounds/doorbell.wav (No such file or directory)

and

playSound("/etc/openhab/sounds/doorbell.wav") returns 2016-02-19 12:23:06.322 [ERROR] [.o.io.multimedia.actions.Audio] - Cannot play sound '/etc/openhab/sounds/doorbell.wav': sounds/etc/openhab/sounds/doorbell.wav (No such file or directory)

Note openhab is trying to open sounds/etc/openhab/sounds/doorbell.wav (which obviously doesn’t exist as the right absolute path is /etc/openhab/sounds/doorbell.wav)

Of course, /etc/openhab/sounds/doorbell.wav does exist. I am running openhab as root, does it change anything?

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Nobody on this one?

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I solved this problem. I gave root permissions to audio file by chmod) It solved all)

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But, I played file by execute comand in comand line. No playSound(). But it works from openhab rules

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I am also running openhab as root and root is the owner of the sound file but playSound() doesn’t work. Error is Cannot play sound 'doorbell.wav': sounds/doorbell.wav (No such file or directory) so it looks more like a path problem than a permission problem.

Of coure executeCommandLine() with aplay is an alternative that works but it’s a pity as playSound() is the built-in action in openhab…

Is there anyone here who has successfully used playSound() ??

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I use it all the time with mp3s, so I confirm it does work. There was no extra setup or anything I had to do, the apt-get install set all the permissions I needed.

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Oh I didn’t know I had to install a specific package! What package is needed?

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Sorry, I meant the apt-get install of openHAB, not apt-get install of a specific package/binding. Basically - it worked “out of the box” for me on a pi2.

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OK thanks for the precision. Under which user do you run openhab: root or openhab or pi?

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openhab, added to the audio group.

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Yes, it s necessary to add openhab in etc/group

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Thanks Michael. Could you explain how to add the user “openhab” to the audio group?

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As @freeholod said, it needs to be added in /etc/group. There will be a long list of groups, one of which is audio. Just add “openhab” to the end of it.