This looks like a viable competitor to the recently announced HA Voice Preview hardware. Looks like it’s sold out at this point but there will be more coming. More microphones, presence detection and a builtin amplifier to run fairly substantial speakers.
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Sort of confused on what this “is” exactly. It’s trying to be too many things at once. It’s an ESP board with a microphone and speaker output, but also has an mmwave sensor in a hat for a carrier board…alright?
This isn’t the format of want any of those things in, honestly. A much smaller ESP32 nano can do the voice, a different device for streaming, and dedicated sensors for mmwave make WAY more sense.
A unit in a main area that can do presence sensing and has good audio IO is something I would happily buy. The board is separate so you can use an ESP32 or a rPi.
Well, that’s just like, your opinion man.
It’s wild that we’re getting two solutions in a couple days after a few years of nothing
I hope it’s not just a coincidence. I would love to see Home Assistant as a smart speaker platform progress.
It seems interesting, although it will cost 95€ with the speaker, but I guess that’s gonna be a definitely better audio than the one of the HA Voice. The disappointing thing is that they don’t sell the enclosure nor provide a 3D design to print your own ☹️
Edit: I’ve just watched the video; this is a public beta (not shipping yet to Europe), they will provide enclosure (specs to print our own to) with speaker and also all the accessories. I’ll keep an eye on the website to check when it will be out of beta and available for Europe. I’m very excited about it!
Looks promising!
