Stable release. Rolls up the Sonos, Google Cast and cloud TTS reliability work that landed across the recent test candidates.
Highlights
- Sonos: no longer trips Home Assistant authentication bans from re-fetching an expired signed URL; plays an unauthenticated local URL and adds a short settle delay before playback.
- Google Cast / Nest: prepends a brief lead-in so the start of the chime or first word is no longer clipped while the receiver starts.
- Nabu Casa Cloud TTS:
tts_platform: cloudresolves correctly again. - Event loop: filesystem copies and folder creation no longer run on the event loop, removing the blocking-call warnings.
- Plus the earlier round of fixes: TTS platform selection on 2025.8+, silent playback (media content id), audio cache correctness, blocking-call cleanup, repeat and pre/post-playback script options, and more.
Install (HACS custom repository)
- HACS > three dots > Custom repositories.
- Add
https://github.com/derekcentrico/chime_tts, category Integration. - Install and restart Home Assistant.