v1.3.0

Chime TTS v1.3.0

This release introduces a full in-app Chime TTS management experience, powerful new playback controls, and a broad set of reliability and compatibility improvements.

✨ New Features

• Added a Chime TTS sidebar panel for configuration and management directly in Home Assistant.
• Added panel management for Chimes, Chime Sets, and Notification Profiles.
• Added Chime Sets for random selection from user-defined chime lists.
• Added an interactive Chime Set editor with draggable Chime/TTS timing blocks, previews, playback progress, and per-chime offsets.
• Added replay controls for panel notification-log entries.
• Added Airport and Doorbell default chimes.
• Added audio-folder management, uploads, file previews, and a redesigned file browser.
• Added pre_script and post_script options to Notification Profiles, chime_tts.say, and chime_tts.say_url, including separately configurable defaults. #310
• Added repeat and repeat_delay support to chime_tts.say and chime_tts.say_url. #314
• Added the initial_delay parameter to chime_tts.say and chime_tts.say_url, plus a configurable default initial-delay setting.
• Added an extra action field for forwarding media-player metadata and artwork to standard media players. #335
• Added support for selecting media-player targets by device, area, floor, and label, including Notification Profiles.
• Added persistent default offsets for built-in chimes, with action and Notification Profile overrides.
• Added the current full list of TLD dialect options.

🧰 Improvements

• Changes to custom chime folders and their contents no longer require restarting Home Assistant.
• Notification Profile changes can now be applied without restarting Home Assistant.
• Improved TTS-platform detection after Home Assistant restarts, including default and fallback selection.
• Removed predefined TTS platform options from action selectors, allowing custom TTS entity IDs.
• Preserve Hebrew niqqud for TTS platforms that support it. #328
• Improved Chime Set visuals, audio previews, start/end-chime previews, and custom-chime selection.
• Improved panel responsiveness, mobile safe-area support, dark-mode styling, logs, configuration layout, dropdown behavior, and field focus.
• Improved Notification Profile editing and target selection.
• Improved narrow-screen folder navigation with default location shortcuts.
• Folder uploads now preserve the selected folder as the top-level destination folder.
• Improved folder-management feedback, including pending progress, in-dialog errors, and existing-folder validation.
• Added a debug-logging status indicator to the panel’s Logs section.
• Improved settings saves, reducing unnecessary panel refreshes.
• Reduced Logs polling and UI updates to expanded sections when new events are available.
• Added regression coverage and Home Assistant-version compatibility testing.
• Added compatibility fixes for Home Assistant 2025.8. #287
• Downloadable chimes now support .oga files and application/octet-stream responses. #281

🐞 Bug Fixes

• Fixed repeat playback counts and stale cached audio when using repeated playback. #314
• Fixed configured default chime_path and end_chime_path values not being applied.
• Fixed Hebrew niqqud and punctuation handling for supported TTS providers. #328
• Fixed configuration audio-preview loading, playback, and pause-state transitions.
• Fixed Chime and target selectors after refreshed action schemas. #329
• Fixed the Chime list shown in services.yaml.
• Fixed label-based media-player target resolution, including multi-speaker Sonos labels. #331
• Chime TTS now waits for an off media player to finish turning on before starting playback. #334
• Fixed folder-management dialogs being positioned incorrectly within the folder picker.
• Fixed external chime-download timeouts. #320
• Fixed chime_tts.clear_cache returning an error.
• Fixed crossfade handling with the Chime TTS notify platform.
• Fixed legacy TTS audio generation and provider-restart detection.
• Fixed Chime Set resolution and selection logging.
• Fixed authenticated local-file access, silent playback, and media-content path resolution. #289 #253
• Fixed blocking local-path operations on Home Assistant’s event loop. #318 #258
• Fixed services.yaml parsing for chime options. #294
• Fixed audio-conversion cache keys and duplicate conversion on cache hits. #282 #280
• Fixed Cloud and Google Cloud TTS language, voice-style, and provider handling. #242 #307 #210
• Fixed fallback TTS timeouts, temporary-folder validation, and async error-path crashes. #232 #306 #288 #272
• Fixed TTS audio-generation logging, external address resolution, and temporary-file cleanup. #236 #238
• Fixed the Notification Profile “Add Target” button text colour.
• Fixed related validation and regression-test failures.

⚠️ Breaking Changes

• Chime TTS now requires Home Assistant 2024.8.0 or later.
• TTS platform selections now retain full tts.* entity IDs. Existing configurations remain compatible, but selections may now resolve to the intended provider instead of falling back to Google Translate. #291 #308 #241
• For Sonos with snapshot/restore enabled, Chime TTS now explicitly sets the announcement volume before playback and restores it afterward. #275 #256

🙏 Contributors

• Thanks to @derekcentrico, @whc2001, @aviadlevy, @ErikApption, @adipierro, and @Viv-Rajkumar for their contributions.

Full Changelog: v.1.2.3...v1.3.0