Home Assistant Setting Volume with Voice
Mandatory Intro A quick update, moving the automation to home assistant has been a challenging, and rewarding journey. Take for instance a simple task of setting volume on voice command. Make a clear Plan Lets just discuss the time it took to figure out how to set it up right, the thing is, when you already have some ready made automation up and running from an Echo device for example. Its difficult to focus on one item and close it. So make a plan first, what automation is your priority, fix one then move to next, try not to get distracted :) Think modular, build some re-usable "services" that you can leverage in automation, such as an announcement service using TTS with predefined settings. Or play an alarm or notification when something is done, or upon an event. Home assistant allows you to play with persistent "variables" such as input_boolean that can store a value to be used in automation, lets say you dont want to clean room twice using the robo vacuum, u...