I can enable announcements on my individual echos but my speaker groups don't work. It appears the problem relates to an announcements and TTS being false (see attachment) how or where do I change these settings to True.
I know he has answered this and if I am remembering correctly, it’s a limitation imposed by Amazon. That’s why Zones exist in the ES app. You can’t use the groups you create in the Alexa app for tts.
I fought the 'everywhere' group issue myself. it was not HE related. Amazon's Everywhere group is an undocumented keyword - it was implemented as a default group for multi amazon device environments for syncronized music. It flat out does not work! The solution I came up with was to create a new all-inclusive group on Alexa with a different name. This solved my Amazon problem and in turn allowed a 'WHA' device on Echo Speaks in the auto-detect new device if you have that enabled. GL.
If you look at my screenshot above, I have a group called downstairs. This appears as WHA in Hubitat but doesn't work. It shows TTS as false. How did you manage to enable your TTS as True?
Yes, I had the same issue. Set up a zone (call it what ever you want). A child app will be created under echo speaks. Go into the child app and click the CREATE DEVICE switch. The name of the group will now be a device. Set your announcement to go to that device. It will now do all speakers in that group at once instead of one at a time.
When you mean set your announcement. Do you go through the normal send message option in RM? Or does it need to be a custom action for the device with a string parameter?