notifications to chromecast

[curious]

Our french speaking fellowers have a nice tutorial on how to send notifications to a chromecast device
http://easydomoticz.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=5914

Unfortunately I don't get a message.
When I run the test,

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/home/pi/domoticz/scripts/notification_google_home.sh "There is someone at the door"

it works fine, but when I want Domoticz to notify me, a mail is send but there is no message on my chromecast.


Does one of you uses this notification-script and faced the same problem (and solved it ) ?
Is there a way to debug this ?

[curious]

Solved...works fine

Just forgot to enable the custom/http action in notification settings

[sincze]

Haha nice, I added the NS jingle as jingle1 and after that the message. hilarious.

[glsf91]

I changed the script a little bit to use google translate as TTS. Also used tasks-spooler to get multiple commands at about the same time queued, so nothing is lost. The original script is not working fine when executed when the first execution is still running.
Jingles is gone but I think you can add this by yourself again.
I use Ubuntu.

Install taskspooler: sudo apt install task-spooler
Install https://github.com/pndurette/gTTS : pip install gTTS (not needed if you don't speak more then 150 characters)

Put the following scripts in /home/john/stream2chromecast:
(replace john with your user)

notification_chromecast_batch.sh

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#!/bin/bash
message=$1 # text message
volume=$2  # 0=auto 0.1=10% 1=100%


# ------ parameters ---------

# number of arg correction
case "$#" in
"1")
    ;;
"2")
    ;;
*)
    echo "Usage: notification_chromecast_batch.sh <text> [volume 0..1]"
    exit 1
    ;;
esac



# queue commands ; don't run at the same time twice
# run under user john otherwise python module cannot be found: gtts-cli
sudo -u john tsp -n bash -c "/home/john/stream2chromecast/notification_chromecast.sh \"$1\" $2 > /tmp/out 2>&1"

notification_chromecast.sh:

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#!/bin/bash
# notification_google_home.sh Script de notification de message vocal sur la Google Home
# by JS Martin - 11/02/2018 - version 0.1
# changed by glsf91

message=$1 # text message
volume=$2  # 0=auto 0.1=10% 1=100%
jingle=$3  # jingle track number (0=no track 1=default track)


# ------ parameters ---------

# Autoset volume if  volume=0
Start_day="0700"
Start_night="2200"
Night_vol="0.2"
Day_vol="0.7"

# number of arg correction
case "$#" in
"1")
    volume="0"
    jingle="1"
    ;;
"2")
    jingle="1"
    ;;
*)
    echo "Usage: notification_google_home <text> [volume 0..1]"
    exit 1
    ;;
esac


# IP Google Home
IPGH="192.168.1.173"


echo "Notification : "$message

if [ $volume != "0" ]; then
   echo "Volume : "$volume
else
   CUR_TIME=`date +%H%M`
   if [ $CUR_TIME -ge $Start_day -a $CUR_TIME -le $Start_night ]; then
      echo "Day volume"
      volume=$Day_vol
   else
      echo "Night volume"
      volume=$Night_vol
   fi
   echo "Volume = automatique - set to "$volume
fi

# Exit if chromecast not online
ping -c1 -W 2 $IPGH >/dev/null
if [ $? -eq 0 ]
then echo "Chromecast online"
else echo "Chromecast offline"
exit 0
fi

if [ -f /tmp/message.mp3 ]
then
  rm /tmp/message.mp3
fi

#Text to MP3; naturalreaders
#curl -s -G "http://api.naturalreaders.com/v4/tts/macspeak" --data "apikey=<apikey>&src=pw&r=22&s=1" --data-urlencode "t=$message" -o /tmp/message.mp3

# use google translate
if [ ${#message} -lt 150 ]
then
  curl -s -G "http://translate.google.com/translate_tts" --data "ie=UTF-8&total=1&idx=0&client=tw-ob&&tl=nl-NL" --data-urlencode "q=$message" -A "Mozilla" --compressed -o /tmp/message.mp3
else
  /home/john/.local/bin/gtts-cli "$message"  -l 'nl' -o /tmp/message.mp3
fi

if [ -f /tmp/message.mp3 ]
then

  #Set Google Home volume
  sudo python /home/john/stream2chromecast/stream2chromecast/stream2chromecast.py -devicename $IPGH -setvol $volume


  #MP3 to Google Home
  sudo python /home/john/stream2chromecast/stream2chromecast/stream2chromecast.py -devicename $IPGH /tmp/message.mp3

fi

if [ -f /tmp/message.mp3 ]
then
  rm /tmp/message.mp3
fi

I have installed stream2chromecast in /home/john/stream2chromecast/stream2chromecast. Adjust the path if necessary.
Also change the ip address of your chromecast device.

Use in Domotizc:

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os.execute('/home/john/stream2chromecast/notification_chromecast_batch.sh "'..sentence..'" &')

sentence is the variable with text.

You can also use naturalreaders.com instead of google. Language is dutch now (change the r=22). There is a limit of 20 minutes per day if using dutch. Only 1 english language is free above 20 minutes.

[sincze]

Pretty nice. Let me try that as well. Tnx for sharing.

[sincze]

haha great stuff. The modified script works like a charm.

[glsf91]

With the command tsp you can see the queue with the commands. Also the commands which are ready.
With tsp -C you can clear the queue.

[freakshock]

Can someone tell me if this is possible to achieve on Synology? If so, how?

[sincze]

Mmm clone stream2cast and use Google with modified script by glsf91. I think it should be possible in that way. Don't try the queue mechanism yet.

[ropske]

to what device are you sending this?

[sincze]

to what device are you sending this?

At this moment to my Google Home

[glsf91]

to what device are you sending this?

I use Chromecast audio.

[sincze]

Ha just curious what would happen it I would send it to my chromecast enabled tv's probably I would lose focus on the kodi input

[gijsje]

Can someone tell me if this is possible to achieve on Synology? If so, how?

Would like to know as well

[glsf91]

Can someone tell me if this is possible to achieve on Synology? If so, how?

Would like to know as well

If you can run python, give it a try. Start with trying stream2chromecast.

[curious]

In my jingle I have the "NS-ding-dong" and the spoken notification. However, just a small part of the jingle is being played.
Anyone knows how to solve that ?

Solved : The mp3 had the wrong format : It has to be mono and 48Khz

[DewGew]

Ha just curious what would happen it I would send it to my chromecast enabled tv's probably I would lose focus on the kodi input

Has anyone tried that yet?

[freakshock]

Can someone tell me if this is possible to achieve on Synology? If so, how?

Would like to know as well

If you can run python, give it a try. Start with trying stream2chromecast.

I tried stream2chromecast and was able to stream an mp3 file to my chromecast audio through a Putty command.
Can't get any commands working in domoticz though, either through a script action on a dummy switch, or through lua (dzVents) but maybe I need different instructions.. any tips?

[sincze]

Ha just curious what would happen it I would send it to my chromecast enabled tv's probably I would lose focus on the kodi input

Has anyone tried that yet?

Pieuw, totally forgot the answer you. Sorry.
I just tested to a chromecast attached to my tv.
It plays just fine.

[freijn]

In my jingle I have the "NS-ding-dong" and the spoken notification. However, just a small part of the jingle is being played.
Anyone knows how to solve that ?

Solved : The mp3 had the wrong format : It has to be mono and 48Khz

Nice Idea !! THanks

Found it as well http://www.woubar.nl/goodies/ns.mp3