How to detect which satellite I'm talking too?

Configuration Voice Assistant
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After searching on this forum, the web and even asking chatgpt I still got no answer that allowed me to do the following.

I have 2 Voice PEs and 1 (of 3) Atom Echo’s up and running. I would like to catch an event as soon as a wake word has been detected and tell me which satellite has been woken up. E.g. I would like to be able to switch assist pipeline by voice.

Subscribing to following events in developer tools didn’t result in any events:

  • homeassistant_satellite_event
  • assist_pipeline_run
  • conversation.process

Hopefully someone can point me to the correct event. Thanks!

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IIRC, you should get a state change on the assist_satellite entities from “idle” to “listening” when you use the wake word.

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Yes, but to do that you have to explicitly listen to each and every satellite. I just want an event when any satellite has been woken up telling me which one it was that woke up.

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Just an idea: what about creating an automation that triggers when your voice assistants wake up and make them announce themselves in an action?

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What task do you need to accomplish?
Finding the last active device is accomplished by working with the domain. Changing the conversation agent for a device is solved by using the trigger data.

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Well, that’s precisely what I want. But that automation needs a trigger right! I want one single trigger (wakeword spoken), with the device which was woken up with it as a value/parameter of the event.

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That was just an example, changing the pipeline/conversation agent. I’m after the most simple and elegant solution to detect which satellite is being talked to.

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Then the first option is the standard method for any devices.
Come up with a specific example of a task, and you will be helped to implement it.

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What’s wrong with the changing state from idle to listening to trigger your automation?

If you use 3 triggers, 1 for each VA, and use trigger ID’s, you could use a template to make the VA announce it’s ID.

Just a rough, maybe not so advanced solution.

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Yes, I could do that. But it simply does not feel like a scalable approach, the more satellites I add the more of them I have to “monitor” individually to detect the state change to listening. It would have been much cleaner and more efficient when there was a single event that gave you the actual satellite as argument.

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I created a Template

>   - sensor:
>       - name: "ESPHome Assist In Progress"
>         state: >
>           {%  if (expand(integration_entities('esphome')) | selectattr('entity_id', 'search', 'assist_satellite.') | selectattr('state', 'in', 'listening, responding, processing') | selectattr("attributes.friendly_name", 'defined') | map(attribute="attributes.friendly_name") | list | sort | count) > 0 -%}
>               {{expand(integration_entities('esphome')) | selectattr('entity_id', 'search', 'assist_satellite.') | selectattr('state', 'in', 'listening, responding, processing') | selectattr("attributes.friendly_name", 'defined') | map(attribute="attributes.friendly_name") | list | sort}}
>           {%- else -%}
>           {%- endif %}
>         icon: mdi:account-voice
>         unique_id: "esphome_assist_in_progress"

This will create a sensor ESPHome Assist in Progress and the state will have the Friendly Name of which Voice Satellite that is in use. If none are in use, the state is blank.

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Awesome, thanks so much!!

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I will, as soon as I have had the time to try it out.