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Chime TTS Notify Entries

You can add Chime TTS notify entries to your configuration.yaml file, each with specific parameter values.

This allows you to create fully customized & reusable notify entries that can be tailored based on the time of day, who is home, or any other use case you can think of.

Example Notify Entries​

  • An "evening" notify entry limited to play on specific media_players with a softer chime and low volume.

  • An "announcement" notify entry for home-wide announcements at full volume with a loud chime.

  • A "calendar" notify entry used for reminders for upcoming events, that repeats after 5 minutes.

Why Notify Entries?​

Convenience: Configure any/all [chime_tts.say]((/chime_tts/docs/documentation/actions/say-action) [parameter]((/chime_tts/docs/documentation/actions/say-action/parameters) values (chime paths, media players, TTS platform, language, voice, etc) once for all your use-cases, and reuse.

Flexibility: Retain the ability to override the defined notify settings across your scripts & automations when needed.

Efficiency: Replace long complicated [chime_tts.say]((/chime_tts/docs/documentation/actions/say-action) action calls with simple, clean and predefined notify action calls.

Go from this......to this
action: chime_tts.say
data:
  chime_path: soft
  offset: -2250
  message: Someone's at the door
  tts_platform: google_translate
  language: en
  tld: com.au
  volume_level: 0.65
  cache: true
  join_players: true
  unjoin_players: true
  announce: true
target:
  entity_id:
    - media_player.kitchen
    - media_player.living_room
    - media_player.garage
action: notify.evening
data:
  message: Someone's at the door