So, I found this $10 device on Aliexpress that may make an excellent smart home device. This comes with a built-in touchscreen, mic, and speaker, wifi bluetooth, everything…
I’ve ordered one and plan to get it running with ESPHome. I’m especially interested in seeing how the touchscreen and audio hardware can be used with the new dashboard and voice assistant components.
Has anyone else had a chance to check this out or try flashing custom firmware on it?
looks interesting, please keep us infomed of your progress and experience!
Sure of it?
This has esp32?
I looked but saw nothing confirming that.
Yeah, sure about the Wi-Fi part. Check the video on the product page.
This is the companion app shown in the video:
There’s no mention of esp32 anywhere in the product page. Looking at the price, my guess is that we’ll find one inside. We’ll know for sure only after getting a device. I was hoping someone in the community has seen a device and can confirm…
I’m not so.
Anyway, let us know when you get it.
It’s Bluetooth. The specs say “Main control chip: AB5682” which is a Bluetooth audio SOC.
For the price, maybe someone could figure out how to use it with BT from Home Assistant. (I neither have the time nor the BT experience to try it myself).
According to balloob that’s not a good idea. See: Easy pairing of Bluetooth speakers? - #2 by balloob
At least you don’t get bored reading the datasheet of that chip.
You were right. No Wi-Fi, just Bluetooth.
I got too excited thinking it’s an esp chip. What a bummer…
The AI and voice assist stuff should be easy to integrate!
…maybe…
Good luck.
Looks like the same form factor as the Mi Home Smart Clock. Unlikely to be running Android though.
Here is a link to the datasheet for the Bluetooth speaker chip it’s based on.
Doesn’t look to hard to remove that chip and put in an ESP32. ESP32 should be able to control the screen, button, and 3 colors LEDs with no problems but you would be missing the DAC chip.
Did you get it yet?
Here is someone who has done some reverse engineering on that chip
This doesnt appear to even use an Esp board or any other board supported by Esphome so, how do you plan in getting it working with Esphome along with all of its unknown components like the display, touchscreen, microphone, etc if some or all of those components aren’t supported by Esphome as well??
I think you may have gotten ahead of your ski’s here and didn’t really think this one through because of your excitement about that 10$ price…
For 10$ and it has all that functionality, that should be more of a Red Flag that requires more investigation rather than making an impulse purchase…
I certainly hope you can make it work but, im very skeptical and would bet it’s going to more of a pain in the a55 than its worth and especially when you can already find similar devices that are already known to work with and are supported by Esphome out of the box…
Keep us posted with any progress if you make any.
