Need help to setup Play sound node

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I like to use play sound node but dont understand how to fill out the player options and the Audio options.
I have 2 setup- one with sound thru the HDMI and one on usb sound card.
I really hope someone can help me.
thanks in advance
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looking forward to hear from someone.

Martin

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I assume you are using node-red-contrib-play-sound so you may want to read this: How to serve up options to a player (AFPLAY tested) · Issue #6 · MattVador/node-red-contrib-play-sound · GitHub

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Thank you so much for your quick reply.
Can you translate that to node-red language, please. I am not that clever to solve it from that explanation.
How and what do you put in the node under play option settings. I can start the sound file but not stop it again.

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Let me ask a couple questions. You say you have two setups. Does that mean you are running two pi’s each with a node-red on it? One connected to a monitor via the hdmi port?
Does the monitor have a speaker attached?
You say you have a usb sound card…attached to what and what card is it?

Also what version of node-red, node.js (find this in the NR startup log) and what so are you running on the pi?

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That so fine.
Nodered version 2.1.3. i am running this version on a virtual machine on a server. In this i control 2 RPI each also with version 2.1.3 with MQTT.
One is with a hdmi and using the tv speaker. The other one is with a Soundblaster play 3 USB.
Then i send the message to the pi for eact "system" and expedite the "orders" sorry for my bad english....
I hope you understand....

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Please export your flows and attach them to a response

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It is a pretty much complex flow. This is one flow out of 7.
flows.json (78.7 KB)
Can you use this???

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Can you make an example flow showing what you want to do?

In the flow you provided you don't have node-red-contrib-play-sound.

Your best bet would be to do some research on how to play a sound from the command line to the devices you have. Once you get that working then working on getting it working from Node-RED.

If you haven't gotten the Soundblaster play 3 USB working yet, here is a link to a site I found you could try: Quickly setup a USB sound card on a Raspberry Pi 3 Note: it is from 2016....

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Yes but it is quit simple.

I just wanna start and stop the pm3 file. With the node-red-contrib-play-sound.
I have no problem playing from the VLC by html request. So the sound works fine. It is the settings inside the Playsound node that need some Json code.
I hope you can help me.
Br. Martin

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Hi Zenofmud

Could you help me how this Sound node works please???

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First off, have you been able to play sound from the two pi’s outside of node-red?

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Yes.
I play Sound from VLC with no problem.
I just want to play a background sound with VLC and then play smaller sound files over the back ground with this node. I just don’t know how to start the node.

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Oh, you want to use VLC, that s a media player while node-red-contrib-play-sound:

Node-RED node for play-sound (based on nodejs play-sound : Play sounds by shelling out to one of the available audio players)

It would have been useful if you mentioned VLC in the begining.

Have yo tried a google search 'node-red vlc' to see what you find?

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No I just want to use this play-audio node up. But Can’t start it up.

Don’t find out what to write in the player options and Audio options and the other two inputs if necessary.

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If you want to use this node, then you need to use a sound player on the Pi like

In my project I used AFPLAY and pointed you at the info I added to github to address using AFPLAY. There are some suggestions there that you should try out.

If you want to use VLC as the sound player, I can't help you since I havn't used it.

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Ooooohhhh so no I think i am getting it. I need to install some of the displayed audio players to the PI before I can use the sound nodes in Node-red.
Is the best and easyest to use the afplayer you think? ANd do you have a link to it?
Thanks.

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No I have installed the afplayer
But I am not sure it is installed correctly.
I get thisWarnings on the picture
I hope you can translate the danish or figure it out. But the command afplayer is not found.

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you cant run node (JavaScript) in a bash terminal.

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Thanks.
okay so it is installed right then?
Should I now could use the Node and what to write in the red input fields in the node??

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No.

To install a node-red package via command line, you need to install it in a folder where the package.json file exists (e.g. in the .node-red folder). You ran the npm command in /home/pi

However, afplay is not a node-red package so I am not 100% certain why you are attempting to install this. Not to mention its for Apple Sound files (you are trying to play a wav file)!

I actually suspect you dont need this, but if you do, you probably want to install it globally using npm install -g afplay (but as i said, I am not convinced this is what you need)


I dont actually know what you are trying to achieve TBH. You said you got it to play a sound but couldnt stop it?...

According to the documentation for node-red-contrib-play-sound you simply send "stop" to the node: node-red-contrib-play-sound - npm << read this.