Help getting openwakeword installed for atom echo?

Configuration Voice Assistant
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While waiting for the atom echo to arrive, I got the rest of the voice configured (all local, not nabu casa as yet). I can use my iphone ‘assist’ to have conversations with home assistant, using google’s AI and it was all working well (Google Generative AI, Wyoming Protocol Piper/whisper). That was all very cool.

For the atom echo, I installed the openwakework addon and started that up, and the instructions state a discovery will happen and this should pop up in Devices/Services - but it does not.
No errors on the addon -
INFO:root:Ready
[20:29:58] INFO: Successfully sent discovery information to Home Assistant.
s6-rc: info: service discovery successfully started
s6-rc: info: service legacy-services: starting
s6-rc: info: service legacy-services successfully started

Its just never discovered.

Which I am assuming is why I dont get the option to add the wakework to the settings/voice assistants.

Any help ?

For testing of the actual atom device, I turned off the ‘use wake word’, then pressed the button and it ‘wakes’ and works fine (as in does the actions I tell it too). But it has not actually said anything ? no confirmation etc like the iphone assist does.

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add the wyoming service manually
Details can be found here, the standard port for OWW is 10400 as far as I remember
After that create a separate assist pipeline and through three points activate OWW, after that install it for your Echo.

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Thanks for that. Using that port and the host name, I now have that registered with the other two that were already working (piper and whisper). I added another ‘assist’ entry for this as you said, and it is now all working… However - it never makes any noises ? I know the speaker is likely to be pretty average but I was hoping for a conversation like google AI was providing on my iphone assist.

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So the issue was the level of firmware that was ‘shipped’ with the device. That esphome did not have a working speaker config. There was no media player for the atom echo. Thats a waste of time buying one with the esphome built in as I have to 'take ownership in esphome builder andyway, then got the online config for this, compiled and installed. Now I have the media player, and I have managed to play stuff to it. So onwards and upwards…