Google home push

Library for Python 3.4+ to push text message or audio file with the Google Home.

Installation

pip install googlehomepush

Dependencies

PyChromecast depends on the Python packages gTTS, pychromecast. Make sure you have these dependencies installed using pip install -r requirements.txt

How to use

from googlehomepush import GoogleHome

GoogleHome("LivingRoom").say("test")
GoogleHome("LivingRoom").play("http://www.hubharp.com/web_sound/BachGavotteShort.mp3")

API

GoogleHome(devicename = None, host = None, port = None, tts_builder = googleTTS_Builder)

Create a new Google Home instance (a device name or host is mandatory).

• devicename can be the google home name, or its IP (local).
• host an ip of a Google Home
• port port used to connect Google Home
• tts_builder the tss engine to use. Available tts are:
  • googleTTS_Builder import with from googlehomepush.googletts import googleTTS_builder. Free TTS used by google translate. It's the default engine
  • googlecloudTTS_builder import with from googlehomepush.googlecloudTTS import googlecloudTTS_builder. Google cloud TTS engine. See https://cloud.google.com/text-to-speech/docs/reference/libraries to create an account.

.say(text, lang = 'en-US')

Push a message on Google home

• text is the test message to say
• lang the text language, default value is 'en'

.play(url, contentType = 'audio/mp3'):

Push a sond to Google home

• url an audio file URL
• contentType the audi file content type

You can play a local file using http_server

from googlehomepush.http_server import serve_file

file_url = serve_file("/path/to/file", "audio/mp3")
GoogleHome("LivingRoom").play(file_url, "audio/mp3")

Maintainers

• Thomas Deblock (@tdeblock)