I can also use AppleScript commands to run Apple Music for whole-house audio as well (although with HomePods it’s also easy to just say “Play greatest hits everywhere”, the choice is yours. I enhanced mine quite a bit by getting custom voices for my Mac running Airfoil (there’s a company that sells really nice authentic sounding voices, mine is a beautiful Scottish female voice) and also writing a custom script that Home Assistant will run when it SSH’s into that Mac to give me more control over the volume, which voice to use, which speakers to use, and so forth. If using Windows you’ll have to research the best way to do this. Set up Home Assistant for shell scripts that execute the Speak command on the Mac (which is why you set Airfoil for TTS).Configure the system running airfoil to accept inbound SSH commands (I use a Mac, you can follow this tutorial to set it up).Set the Airfoil source to be Text-To-Speech.Have a fully operational Airfoil system working and connected to your HomePods or other preferred output devices.It’s pretty straightforward to do, just a little legwork:
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