.playText() with ObyThing

supercody · February 24, 2016, 10:46pm

I’m having some issues with .playText() and an ObyThing airplay speaker. It seems that while every other smart app is able to utilize the airplay feature and play it through a pair of airplay speakers, when I try to use .playText() in one of my own apps, it will only play through the computer speakers. Is there something I should know specifically about this method or the ObyThing device type?

slagle · February 25, 2016, 2:13am

@obycode, is this a known issue

obycode · February 25, 2016, 5:17pm

Yes, this is a known issue. When you use “playText()” it is actually just using the “say” command on your Mac, which is not going through iTunes and therefore not using the AirPlay speakers. If you instead use the speak method, ex. speak("hello world"), then it will generate the mp3 in the cloud using SmartThings API and send the url to iTunes to play over your selected AirPlay speakers.

supercody · February 25, 2016, 10:59pm

@obycode When I try that though, I get:

Command 'speak' is not supported by device 73d808c8-5f06-491a-ad35-8d100b6330bc of type 'ObyThing Music'. Supported commands: [on, off, refresh, play, pause, stop, nextTrack, playTrack, setLevel, playText, mute, previousTrack, unmute, setTrack, resumeTrack, restoreTrack, playTrackAtVolume, playTrackAndResume, playTextAndResume, playTrackAndRestore, playTextAndRestore, playSoundAndTrack]

obycode · February 25, 2016, 11:03pm

Hmmm… are you using the default SmartApp and Device Type, or the one from GitHub? It should get speak from the Speech Synthesis capability, but I don’t remember if the one that is published by ST has that or not.

github.com

obycode/obything/blob/master/ObyThingMusic.groovy

/**
 *  ObyThing Music
 *
 *  Copyright 2014 obycode
 *
 *  Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except
 *  in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at:
 *
 *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
 *
 *  Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed
 *  on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License
 *  for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.
 *
 */

import groovy.json.JsonSlurper

metadata {
  definition (name: "ObyThing Music", namespace: "com.obycode", author: "obycode") {

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supercody · February 25, 2016, 11:15pm

Ahh that seemed to fix the error. Thanks for the quick reply!

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.playText() with ObyThing

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