The goal of this development is to have the ability to speak on a Google Nest Mini speaker.
Whether you use Google or not, these connected speakers offer excellent value for money (probably sold by Google at zero margin or even at a loss), and can be found brand new on leboncoin from 20€.
I bought one last week myself for this experiment:
No, the audio part is local, it works without the internet.
The TTS scene action requires the cloud, but that’s nothing new — it’s already the case in Gladys currently in production. The day local TTS is possible and of good quality, I’ll be the first to add it to Gladys!
Yes, absolutely — if there’s demand it can be added
Maybe my explanation isn’t clear, but here I’m just adding support for Google Nest Mini speakers, we already support Sonos speakers. The « Gladys voice » feature has been in Gladys since last year.
I tested the image and I can scan my Google Home Mini and my Google Nest Hub (I imagine it also works with a Nest Hub?).
However, I see very few logs related to the Google Cast integration, is that normal? (I see device removal compared to LAN manager or Sonos where you can clearly see when a scan starts and when devices are found.)
I would have liked to test the rest: speaking on the speaker via scenes but that requires Gladys Plus which I don’t have on my test instance. I would consider testing with my production database to have Gladys Plus but I think that’s not recommended.. what should I do?
