How it looks now:
I’m adding Comments with documentation so others will be able to follow what we have done.
Question:
The function for the MIOS IN monitoring still has the volume specified individually for each device is that right?
let sensors={
"Kitchen:Patio Door:Tripped":{
"ips":"192.168.0.16|192.168.0.19",
"message":["Patio Door Closed","Patio Door Opened"],
"volume":60
},
"Porch:Front Door:Tripped":{
"ips":"192.168.0.16|192.168.0.19",
"message":["Front Door Closed","Front Door Opened"],
"volume":60
},
"Porch:Letterbox:Tripped":{
"ips":"192.168.0.16|192.168.0.19",
"message":["null","Letter box Opened"],
"volume":60
},
"Back Garden:Garden Gate:Tripped":{
"ips":"192.168.0.16|192.168.0.21",
"message":["Garden Gate Closed","Garden Gate Opened"],
"volume":60
},
"Lounge:Fireplace:Status":{
"ips":"192.168.0.16",
"message":["Turning Off Fireplace","Turning On Fireplace"],
"volume":60
}
}
if you omit volume then the global default is used or hard coded default
you can also attach the delay and debug of the mios monitoring to the other mios node so only one mios required.
OK I am removing the hard coded volume levels from this function.
I’ve tested with them removed and the Global level does work.
Like that…
yes thats correct
Here is the final flow code, with the instructions in the Comment labels, for the CastV2 integration.
Flow Code you can Import:
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1 : 0;\nif(sensor[\"message\"][msg.payload] !== \"null\"){\nmsg.payload = {\n \"message\": sensor[\"message\"][msg.payload],\n \"ip\": sensor[\"ips\"],\n \"volume\": sensor[\"volume\"]\n }\nmsg.sensor = true;\nreturn msg;\n}else{\n return;\n}\n}else{\n return;\n}","outputs":1,"noerr":0,"initialize":"","finalize":"","x":350,"y":360,"wires":[["de79989a.a52818"]]},{"id":"de79989a.a52818","type":"function","z":"2c1c608.171caa","name":"function for TTS","func":"var IPS = msg.payload.ip.split(\"|\");\nvar message = msg.payload.message;\nvar ttsVolume = msg.payload.volume || global.get(\"ttsVolumeDefault\") || 60;\nfor (var i in IPS) { \n //msg.ttsVolume = true;\n msg.payload = {\"type\":\"VOLUME\",\"volume\":ttsVolume,\"ip\":IPS[i]};\n node.send([null,msg]);\nmsg.payload = {\n type: \"TTS\",\n text: message,\n language: \"En-gb\",\n ip: IPS[i],\n }\nmsg.iptts = IPS[i];\nnode.send([null, [msg]]);\n}\nif(!msg.sensor){\nmsg.payload = \"ok\"; // the response message\nreturn [msg];\n}else{\n return;\n}\n","outputs":2,"noerr":0,"initialize":"","finalize":"","x":240,"y":240,"wires":[["3be8a007.b440f"],["961c039f.d9511"]]},{"id":"624339ce.70a148","type":"http in","z":"2c1c608.171caa","name":"http request from Vera scene","url":"sceneTrigger","method":"get","upload":false,"swaggerDoc":"","x":160,"y":140,"wires":[["de79989a.a52818"]]},{"id":"3be8a007.b440f","type":"http response","z":"2c1c608.171caa","name":"http response","statusCode":"200","headers":{},"x":400,"y":40,"wires":[]},{"id":"961c039f.d9511","type":"switch","z":"2c1c608.171caa","name":"IP Switch","property":"payload.ip","propertyType":"msg","rules":[{"t":"eq","v":"192.168.0.16","vt":"str"},{"t":"eq","v":"192.168.0.19","vt":"str"},{"t":"eq","v":"192.168.0.20","vt":"str"},{"t":"eq","v":"192.168.0.21","vt":"str"},{"t":"eq","v":"192.168.0.24","vt":"str"}],"checkall":"true","repair":false,"outputs":5,"x":440,"y":200,"wires":[["bcb2ede6.8e6be"],["ae3e1796.60de38"],["f0ddf7c4.b12bb8"],["3b8e7ccb.9fd924"],["f8a77c67.f07e1"]]},{"id":"bcb2ede6.8e6be","type":"castv2-sender","z":"2c1c608.171caa","name":"Lounge Mini .16","connection":"6f8783fb.3dd50c","spotifyAccessToken":"","spotifyAccessTokenExpiration":"","spotifyDeviceName":"","x":740,"y":160,"wires":[["fe70ae7a.b52e4","bf3a7cec.7b0c2"]],"icon":"node-red-contrib-cast/google-home-mini2.svg"},{"id":"ae3e1796.60de38","type":"castv2-sender","z":"2c1c608.171caa","name":"Kitchen Home .19","connection":"84b64104.c6bd5","spotifyAccessToken":"","spotifyAccessTokenExpiration":"","spotifyDeviceName":"","x":750,"y":260,"wires":[["b9e34b7e.af5118","d781600d.1fe4e"]],"icon":"node-red-contrib-cast/google-home1.svg"},{"id":"f0ddf7c4.b12bb8","type":"castv2-sender","z":"2c1c608.171caa","name":"Bathroom Mini .20","connection":"eefe01fb.d0bec","spotifyAccessToken":"","spotifyAccessTokenExpiration":"","spotifyDeviceName":"","x":750,"y":360,"wires":[["4cdb0217.44aedc","686877d7.4b8df8"]],"icon":"node-red-contrib-cast/google-home-mini2.svg"},{"id":"3b8e7ccb.9fd924","type":"castv2-sender","z":"2c1c608.171caa","name":"Masterbed Mini .21","connection":"7f5d6c3c.415914","spotifyAccessToken":"","spotifyAccessTokenExpiration":"","spotifyDeviceName":"","x":750,"y":460,"wires":[["bc00f492.b58de8","7231cd7f.49e0b4"]],"icon":"node-red-contrib-cast/google-home-mini2.svg"},{"id":"f8a77c67.f07e1","type":"castv2-sender","z":"2c1c608.171caa","name":"Bedroom 2 Home .24","connection":"292a4ac3.634916","spotifyAccessToken":"","spotifyAccessTokenExpiration":"","spotifyDeviceName":"","x":760,"y":560,"wires":[["de3f625d.eb99d","5b5dc80a.94bce8"]],"icon":"node-red-contrib-cast/google-home1.svg"},{"id":"fe70ae7a.b52e4","type":"debug","z":"2c1c608.171caa","name":"Debug","active":false,"tosidebar":true,"console":false,"tostatus":true,"complete":"payload","targetType":"msg","statusVal":" (payload.idleReason = \"FINISHED\" ? 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Or you can import the attached .json file.
flows-Google-TTS.zip (4.1 KB)
Thank you once again to @ElCid for his expertise. 
I’ve updated the first post with the needed information.
With all the debug nodes in the flow disabled and turned off and no debug nodes selected in the debug window, I am seeing lots of these messages.
Not sure if it is something to be concerned about or not.
Its coming from the function nodes in between the two CastV2 nodes.
It is comming from those undefined payloads. It wont break anything but is messy.
Try this function 3
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That seems to have done the trick, the messages aren’t appearing now.
Thanks.
Do you have a ChromeCast Video device ?
Wondering what else we might be able to do with this new CastV2. Maybe some transport control buttons in the Home Remote dashboard app as they don’t currently support any ChromeCast integration.
I’ve got all of them to work except for the “Queue_Next” and “Queue_Prev” don’t work.
And the GET ones don’t seem to do anything.
Flow code:
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Interesting I’ve just discovered you can also send TTS announcements to the ChromeCast Video device on the TV.
Although it kills and stops what ever was already playing on the ChromeCast before the TTS was sent to it.
No not a google user, except android(and they are slowly poisoning that)
I think you would need to be playing from a playlist for QUEUE_NEXT to work.
the apps it works with.
DefaultMediaReceiver
GooglePlayMusic - media control only
GogolePlayMovies - media control only
Netflix - media control only
Spotify - media control only
TuneIn - media control only
YouTube
so you should be able to link to youtube media
That’s a shame, maybe Santa will bring you a new ChromeCast with Google TV !
I’ve not bought one of the new Google TV ChromeCast’s yet.
I have a 4K Fire TV stick in the living room as I prefer Youtube with a menu GUI and remote control.
All the other TV’s just have a regular ChromeCast video device, which is what my daughter users to cast her phone and iPad to the TVs.
All I tried was using the Youtube app on my phone and I added a few videos in to the QUEUE.
But pressing the Queue Next Inject didn’t make it skip and start playing the next video in the queue.
I haven’t figured out the different apps yet for this CastV2.
Specifying the app doesn’t seem to work either for Queue Next.
msg =
{
payload: {
app: "YouTube",
type: "QUEUE_NEXT"
}
}
return msg;
“Error: Invalid request: INVALID_COMMAND”
It says you don’t need to specify app anyway for “Media Commands” and Queue Next is a media command.
“Media commands are listed below. These tend to be global to most media apps. For any app supported by this module, these should be supported. You do not need to include an app with these as the node will attempt to join any active sessions for supported apps automatically.”
Seems its the command itself it doesn’t like for some reason.
Definitely doesn’t work, just started playing a music playlist of videos off YouTube. Next_Queue doesn’t skip to the next music video.
Not supported
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I’m just reading that now, found it before you posted.
Bill over on the Home Remote forum just told me he has added support for Google Cast devices. So I’ll be using that now instead, rather than these CastV2 node playback controls.
As of version 0.2.17 of the original node-red-contrib-cast, it is working again now.
So you can now choose either of these different Cast nodes to use, up to you…
Think I’ll be sticking with the new CastV2 node as it seems more reliable with the TTS announcements as previously stated and with the newly designed flow, we have more functionality.
Thanks for the clear explanation how to use TTS with castV2. It works perfect only when I play TuneIn and TTS message appears the music stops. Is it possible to resume the stream after TTS?
You may be able to read the current stream and save it in a variable and start stream again after TTS. I am not familiar with node red. You may know a solution.