Music Assistant lines up announcements across speaker groups

An announcement sent to a group of Home Assistant Voice speakers could reach each room at a different moment, making the message hard to understand. Music Assistant routes the clip through the group’s synchronized stream when the speakers cannot arrange a shared start themselves.

Marcel van der Veldt applies that route to Home Assistant players, ESPHome Sendspin players, Snapcast, Bose and Samsung, and to groups mixing providers. Music stops and resumes around the announcement. AirPlay and Sonos groups keep their native announcement path because those speakers can coordinate the start.