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MA play_announcement Action

This action allows you to send audio announcements via a URL to a player. The URL could be accessed in a variety of ways. For example:

  • External such as https://www.soundjay.com/door/doorbell-5.mp3
  • Using Home Assistant you can add the sound files under your www folder and access them like this http://192.168.1.165:8123/local/audio/Apartment-door-chime-melody.mp3
  • You could run your own webserver

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Note

For sending text messages use the HA TTS service calls and target the MA media player entity. There are a number of options available to control the volume of announcements in the MA settings for each player.

service: tts.google_say
  data:
    entity_id: media_player.ma_kitchen_speaker
    message: This is a test