Hi!
I’m very new to home automation. For about eight years I’ve had a couple Google home minis running some smart lights and acting as an alarm, but I never got into creating automations or anything like that. Recently I’ve been putting more effort into limiting the amount of data I give to big corporations and found Home Assistant. I’ve got it running my lights, timers and alarms, but I’m interested in customizing it more. I inherited a 1950’s Blaupunkt Arizona. The turntable has been recently upgraded and the radio is original, but it’s essentially a wooden shell. From what I can tell, Home Assistant Voice PE is a speaker, microphone, click wheel and led strip. The Blaupunkt has room for a speaker and a microphone, I could remove the old tube lighting behind the radio display and replace it with an LED strip and it seems feasible to attach the click wheel somehow to one of the dials. But I’m incredibly new to this kind of stuff and don’t know how realistic of a goal this is. I’ve been trying for a while to figure out what terms to search so I can start learning the necessary skills. Am I on the right track or is this silly? Any suggestions on where to start? Thanks!
What do you want to achieve? A jukebox? Retain existing radio and turntable? Keep them functional or just decorative? What audio sources do you want for your unit? The cabinet is magnificent - you want to keep that. The sky is the limit.
Good questions! In a perfect world it would be able to play records, stream music and act as a voice assistant to set timers, check the weather, etc. Currently I’ll be happy if it’s a big Voice PE (preferably with a nicer speaker). I’d like the radio display to light up when I say “ok, nabu” and the knobs to take over the functionality of the click wheel. You’re right about the cabinet, that’s for sure staying! But I’m fine getting rid of the old radio components inside to make room for LEDs or electronics. The current turntable is it’s own self contained device that just happens to fit perfectly where the old turntable sat. It doesn’t take up much space and won’t need to integrate with Home Assistant. I’m still trying to learn more about audio inputs 
Sounds like careful installation to preserve the look of the cabinet may be your biggest challenge. Shoehorning everything inside shouldn’t be a big ask as there is plenty of room.
Here’s a vintage Telefunken project which may give you ideas.
Thank you! That looks like a great resource!
That person tried to keep everything functional, ancient valves and all. If all you want to preserve is the look of the cabinet but replace the internals with modern equipment, that will be far easier.
I have a bunch of old Radios I use as smart speakers.
They don’t have Voice as I really don’t see the need, but that’s just me.
Most run on es32 n16r8’s and max98357, this is just connected to the speaker, others run on esp32 A1S boards.
These have evolved over the years and were first running on the old valve radios using chromecast audios. This involved restoring the original valve electronics, which did not prove that reliable Now they all run on Esphome with Sendspin multiroom. I have one old radio in every room.
Te only part I have never treid to do is input from a turntable, but i believe this is something that will be coming to Music Assistant in the near future.
Need any code look here. (it may need some updating)
This is an amazing resource, thank you!