core: Pico tts broken on hassio
Home Assistant release with the issue:
0.94.4
Last working Home Assistant release (if known): Only with pip install Never worked on hassio
Operating environment (Hass.io/Docker/Windows/etc.):
- Tried with the offical hassio image for raspberry 3
- with hassio install on raspbian lite (also on a raspberry 3)
- and a hassio install on a generic linux machine (debian 9 on amd64)
Three times no luck
Component/platform:
picotts
Description of problem:
Even picotts is installed on the base system (for example on raspian lite or debian 9) the component can’t come up in home assistant (hassio based). I’m not sure if there is any (special) step needed which is not written in the docs (https://www.home-assistant.io/components/picotts/) or that picotts is just broken on hassio?
Problem-relevant configuration.yaml entries and (fill out even if it seems unimportant):
# Example configuration.yaml entry
tts:
- platform: picotts
Traceback (if applicable):
‘pico2wave’ was not found
00:01 PM components/picotts/tts.py (ERROR)
Additional information:
+1 for cloud free tts
About this issue
- Original URL
- State: closed
- Created 5 years ago
- Reactions: 8
- Comments: 16 (3 by maintainers)
Guess what… pico tts still doesn’t work with 0.97 and hassio 😞
I wonder what’s needed to have a local tts with hassio…
Take a look there 😉: https://github.com/Poeschl/Hassio-Addons
pico tts is not available for hassio 0.98
No cloud free 🚫☁️ tts available for hassio at the moment (as far as I know)
I don’t know if this one here (https://pypi.org/project/py-picotts/) has any relevance and that picotts could be included hassle free as a bundled component (including picotts itself and not rely on system packages) with py-picotts?
There is a way to use Pico TTS on Hassio (All-In-One), but it requires a custom Add-On and a HACS integration. It’s not ideal, but it does work well right now in HomeAssistant 0.111
Thanks @Poeschl !
My working setup:
Install the custom Pico tts Home-Assistant Add-On
Add the custom repository to the Home-Assistant ‘store’:
Install and start the Add-On - no configuration necessary
Install the corresponding HACS integration:
Use the Pico tts service as you normally like:
or by a service call like…
Revel in the awesomeness of open source & local tts!
Note: If the tts service doesn’t seem to work for you, you’ll need to make sure that your base_url for home-assistant does not use ssl (https). This may be a deal breaker for some people, but it shouldn’t be if you use something like the NGINX Proxy Manager add-on that allows your Home-Assistant to access your instance using https even though home-assistant itself is using http. And, if you still want to be that guy that wants to use https in his internal network, you can just add a host override in your router to point any internal home-assistant traffic to NGINX Proxy manager - thus giving you https everywhere while home-assistant itself can still call the pico service happily.
Hi, I stumbled across a seemingly working implementation for picoTTS.
https://github.com/Poeschl/Hassio-Addons/tree/master/picoTTS https://github.com/Poeschl/ha-picoTTS_remoteTogether with the pending pull-request, this is working for me.Might be worth a check and potentially an inclusion with the add-ons. Would be nice to have an offline tts service again.Edit 2020-02-08: Correct link: Repo. Pull Request got accepted, working flawlessly ever since from my perspective.