Start playing a preset (favourite) on a group of Sonos speakers (not out of sync)

#41

I’ve installed using the latest node v8 as documented above, but TTS isn’t working. I’ve copied my settings.json with my voicerss api key from the old PI, but when I try to get it to speak, although the browser replys “success”, I get no speech and the following error on the PI

announce file for phrase “lounge” does not seem to exist, downloading
2021-01-16T16:37:09.895Z ERROR
{ error: ‘action ‘tts’ not found’ }
2021-01-16T16:37:10.027Z ERROR
{ error: ‘action ‘tts’ not found’ }

Interestingly, I think the presets would work, on the old PI it hangs, on this one it errors in the same way as a simple “say” command.

I’ve tried upgrading to node 11.5 and now get the following

2021-01-16T17:53:31.882Z INFO http server listening on 0.0.0.0 port 5005
2021-01-16T17:53:39.261Z ERROR
{ error: “action ‘tts’ not found” }
(node:1460) [DEP0005] DeprecationWarning: Buffer() is deprecated due to security and usability issues. Please use the Buffer.alloc(), Buffer.allocUnsafe(), or Buffer.from() methods instead.
2021-01-16T17:53:39.273Z ERROR
{ error: “action ‘tts’ not found” }

#42

I’ve spent far too long trying to get this to work and not got anywhere!

I suspect there are incompatibilities between os/nodejs/app. I’ve even tried it on windows without success.

Can anyone who has this working let me know their versions?

My old Pi (raspbian jessie & node v6) works - other than the saypreset

My new Pi will not speak (as above) It won’t run jessie, but wonder if a later OS works?

#43

Does any of you guys know why I cannot delete the server again? It says access denied when I try.I don’t know how or why it would be installed with rights above my user…?
I wanted to do a clean install of it, because it suddently stopped working when supposed to perform speak-commands that worked before. I’ve rebooted, but the error’s still there.
I think it’s a bit unstable and a newbie like me has no idea what’s wrong or how to fix it.

#44

if you originally installed using sudo, the files will be owned by root. you’ll need to use sudo again e.g sudo rm …

When you reiinstall, don’t use sudo, it will install as user pi, and works fine