Is it possible to have the assist respond from a different media player?

Configuration Voice Assistant
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I have the M5Atom up and running and it is great, however the speaker leaves everything to be desired. As a proof of concept though, it’s super helpful.

What I’m wondering is, is there a way to reroute the tts from piper to another media device (someday I would love to link a specific media player (sonos in a room) to a specific m5atom / microphone).

From what I’ve read and played around with we can do this with a specific automation via the sentence trigger, with a predefined tts output, but I am thinking more of the dynamic responses like “turning on the lights” or whatever OpenAI responds with.

Have I missed where this is possible right now or is it something on the roadmap?

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Try reading through this. Near the bottom, you’ll see it’s possible to add some lines to your ESP config, where a mic can be linked to a particular media player for responses.

Got this from the helpful lot over on Discord:-)

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I’m looking for a similar solution. I have built a few Wyoming Protocol satellite devices but only want to use them for the mic - then tie them specifically to Sonos speakers in the room where the satellite exists. So, taking the voice command from the Satellite and then redirecting the response to Sonos. I have added ChatGPT to the mix and really like the results. I’ve seen a few posts where it has been accomplished using Node-Red, but I cannot find the details on the how.

It would be nice if it was native in the Voice Assistant setup in Home Assistant.

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looking for this same capabillity

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Check my solution:

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With esphome satellite’s it is quite easy, add the following:

voice_assistant:
  on_listening:
    - light.turn_on:
        id: led
        blue: 100%
        red: 0%
        green: 0%
        brightness: 100%
        effect: pulse
  on_tts_start:
    - speaker.stop:
        id: echo_speaker
    - light.turn_on:
        id: led
        blue: 0%
        red: 0%
        green: 100%
        brightness: 100%
        effect: pulse
    - homeassistant.service:
        service: tts.cloud_say
        data:
          entity_id: media_player.CHOSEN_MEDIA_PLAYER_ENTITY
        data_template:
          message: "{{ my_stt }}"
        variables:
          my_stt: return x;

you need to change your ‘on_tts_start’ actions.

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