Everything seems to be working for me except the audio file doesn't actually play through my speaker.

• I can tell that it is successfully connecting to the speaker as it interrupts music and sometimes plays the 'cast ding sound'
• the audio files, which are generated from text, play correctly on my computer
• I have tried using different speakers but each had the same result

Can't figure out what is going wrong.

say command is not working at all
when i use the "say" command my google home just make a sound and then nothing

Let me know

Problem

When try to launch main.py, it causes AttributeError: 'Chromecast' object has no attribute 'cast_info'

Actual

Startup fails.

INFO:root:Starting up chromecasts
INFO:pychromecast:Querying device status
INFO:root:Searching for ghm
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/gh-notifier/google-home-notifier-python/main.py", line 19, in <module>
    cast = next(cc for cc in chromecasts if cc.cast_info.friendly_name == chromecast_name)
  File "/home/gh-notifier/google-home-notifier-python/main.py", line 19, in <genexpr>
    cast = next(cc for cc in chromecasts if cc.cast_info.friendly_name == chromecast_name)
AttributeError: 'Chromecast' object has no attribute 'cast_info'

Expected

python main.py launches successfully.

Additional information

I'm using it with Google Home Mini.

$ pip list
Package            Version
------------------ ---------
casttube           0.2.1
certifi            2021.5.30
charset-normalizer 2.0.4
click              8.0.1
Flask              2.0.1
gTTS               2.2.3
idna               3.2
ifaddr             0.1.7
itsdangerous       2.0.1
Jinja2             3.0.1
MarkupSafe         2.0.1
pathlib            1.0.1
pip                21.1.3
protobuf           3.17.3
PyChromecast       9.2.0
requests           2.26.0
setuptools         56.0.0
six                1.16.0
unicode-slugify    0.1.3
Unidecode          1.2.0
urllib3            1.26.6
Werkzeug           2.0.1
zeroconf           0.36.0
WARNING: You are using pip version 21.1.3; however, version 22.0.4 is available

With debugging, it seems there is a case that cast_info property can not be accessible.

>>> print(chromecasts)
[Chromecast(None, port=8009, device=DeviceStatus(friendly_name='ghm', model_name='Google Home Mini', manufacturer='Google Inc.', uuid=UUID('...'), cast_type='audio'))]

>>> cast = chromecasts[0]
>>> cast
Chromecast(None, port=8009, device=DeviceStatus(friendly_name='ghm', model_name='Google Home Mini', manufacturer='Google Inc.', uuid=UUID('...'), cast_type='audio'))

cast. doesn't show cast_info.

>>> cast.
cast.app_display_name                 cast.model_name                       cast.socket_client
cast.app_id                           cast.name                             cast.start(
cast.cast_type                        cast.new_cast_status(                 cast.start_app(
cast.connect(                         cast.play_media(                      cast.status
cast.device                           cast.quit_app(                        cast.status_event
cast.disconnect(                      cast.register_connection_listener(    cast.uri
cast.ignore_cec                       cast.register_handler(                cast.uuid
cast.is_idle                          cast.register_launch_error_listener(  cast.volume_down(
cast.join(                            cast.register_status_listener(        cast.volume_up(
cast.logger                           cast.set_volume(                      cast.wait(
cast.media_controller                 cast.set_volume_muted(                

I've used cast.name as a workaround.

$ git diff
diff --git a/main.py b/main.py
index 3fde0a2..2e55441 100644
--- a/main.py
+++ b/main.py
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ app = Flask(__name__)
 logging.info("Starting up chromecasts")
 chromecasts, _ = pychromecast.get_chromecasts()
 logging.info("Searching for {}".format(chromecast_name))
-cast = next(cc for cc in chromecasts if cc.cast_info.friendly_name == chromecast_name)
+cast = next(cc for cc in chromecasts if cc.name == chromecast_name)
 
 def play_tts(text, lang='en', slow=False):
     tts = gTTS(text=text, lang=lang, slow=slow)

This app crashes if the google home device is switched off.

How to overcome this..?

Hi. How to access Google home IP address remotely when I'm outside of local wifi network?

I ran your notifi.sh shell script and started the docker image. Now how do I access the /say/ or /play/ URLs. When I enter http://localhost/say/?text=Hello or http://127.0.0.1/say/?text=Hello nothing works. Do I need to a have a webserver such as apache running on the machine.

Thanks Harper for Obama... and the interface.
The main.py runs ok no errors but I am not getting a sound from the Google Home. Except the first time when lounching app CC1AD845 I can hear the short "ploom".
My log:
ARNING:werkzeug: * Debugger is active!
INFO:werkzeug: * Debugger PIN: 318-290-727
INFO:root:http://eee:5000/static/cache/co-tam-sie-dzieje-pl-false.mp3
http://eee:5000/static/cache/co-tam-sie-dzieje-pl-false.mp3
INFO:pychromecast.controllers:Receiver:Launching app CC1AD845
INFO:werkzeug:192.168.90.2 - - [13/Oct/2017 15:26:09] "GET /say/?text=%22co%20tam%20sie%20dzieje%22&lang=pl HTTP/1.1" 200 -
INFO:root:http://eee:5000/static/cache/co-tam-sie-dzieje-pl-false.mp3
http://eee:5000/static/cache/co-tam-sie-dzieje-pl-false.mp3
INFO:pychromecast.controllers:Not launching app CC1AD845 - already running
INFO:werkzeug:192.168.90.2 - - [13/Oct/2017 15:26:22] "GET /say/?text=%22co%20tam%20sie%20dzieje%22&lang=pl HTTP/1.1" 200 -
Play mp3 behaves the same.

I get the following error after running docker-compose up :

Attaching to home-notifier
home-notifier  | INFO:root:Starting up chromecasts
home-notifier  | INFO:root:Searching for None
home-notifier  | Traceback (most recent call last):
home-notifier  |   File "main.py", line 19, in <module>
home-notifier  |     cast = next(cc for cc in chromecasts if cc.device.friendly_name == chromecast_name)
home-notifier  | StopIteration
home-notifier exited with code 1

I changed GRP_NAME in Dockerfile to the device name. I have only one Google Device.

Getting the following error on my Raspberry PI after following instructions on installing, any ideas?

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "main.py", line 3, in
import pychromecast
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pychromecast/init.py", line 15, in
from .discovery import discover_chromecasts, start_discovery, stop_discovery
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pychromecast/discovery.py", line 5, in
from zeroconf import ServiceBrowser, Zeroconf
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/zeroconf.py", line 175
def current_time_millis() -> float:
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

Hello,

Really good job :-)

But how i can launch the script at boot on raspberry pi, I've tried many time but i've got error:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/pi/Desktop/google-home-notifier-python/main.py", line 3, in
import pychromecast
ImportError: No module named pychromecast

If i launch the script via the command line it's work like a charme.

Thanks

This is not an issue more a question:
Can we just run the notifier webservice over Apache. I already have a full home automation solution that already runs an Apache web server.
Please give us a way to integrate on existing web servers.
Thanks

I'm using on Windows 10 with Python 3.6.8 and a Google Home Mini. Using your main.py and can connect to my mini but when using play_mp3("doorbell1.mp3") it either plays very fast, like 4 or 5 rings in just a second or not at all, works about 1 time out of 5 to 10 tries. What can I do so it plays at the correct speed and consistently works?

I can't use play("doorbell1.mp3") since I get the errors:
RuntimeError: Working outside of request context.
This typically means that you attempted to use functionality that needed an active HTTP request

Thanks - Gary