I cannot tell you right now as i am at work…
But it marks:
substitutions:
name: "m5stack-atom-echo"
friendly_name: "M5Stack Atom Echo"
Well post again when you can be more precise.
ERROR Error while reading config: Invalid YAML syntax:
while parsing a block mapping
in "/config/esphome/assist-1.yaml", line 1, column 1:
substitutions:
^
expected <block end>, but found '<block mapping start>'
in "/config/esphome/assist-1.yaml", line 84, column 3:
microphone: echo_microphone
I think its this one.
this is hard work, yaml file please.
Here it is… but its quite the original one:
substitutions:
name: "assist-1"
friendly_name: "assist-1"
esphome:
name: "${name}"
project:
name: m5stack.atom-echo-voice-assistant
version: "1.0"
esp32:
board: m5stack-atom
framework:
type: arduino
#dashboard_import:
# package_import_url: github://esphome/firmware/voice-assistant/m5stack-atom-echo.yaml@main
packages:
voice_assistant:
url: https://github.com/esphome/firmware
file: voice-assistant/m5stack-atom-echo.yaml
ref: main
refresh: 0s
# Enable Home Assistant API
api:
encryption:
key: "xxx"
# Enable logging
logger:
ota:
password: "xxx"
wifi:
ssid: !secret wifi_ssid
password: !secret wifi_password
manual_ip:
static_ip: 10.7.0.15
gateway: 10.7.0.1
subnet: 255.255.255.0
dns1: 10.2.0.254
# Enable fallback hotspot (captive portal) in case wifi connection fails
ap:
ssid: "Assist-1 Fallback Hotspot"
password: "xxx"
captive_portal:
improv_serial:
i2s_audio:
i2s_lrclk_pin: GPIO33
i2s_bclk_pin: GPIO19
microphone:
- platform: i2s_audio
id: echo_microphone
i2s_din_pin: GPIO23
# adc_type: external
# pdm: false
media_player:
- platform: i2s_audio
name: None
id: echo_audio
dac_type: external
i2s_dout_pin: GPIO22
mode: mono
voice_assistant:
url: https://github.com/esphome/firmware
file: voice-assistant/m5stack-atom-echo.yaml
ref: main
refresh: 0s
microphone: echo_microphone
on_start:
- light.turn_on:
id: led
blue: 100%
red: 0%
green: 0%
on_tts_start:
- light.turn_on:
id: led
blue: 0%
red: 0%
green: 100%
on_tts_end:
- light.turn_on:
id: led
blue: 0%
red: 0%
green: 100%
- media_player.play_media: !lambda return x;
on_end:
- delay: 1s
- if:
condition:
media_player.is_playing:
then:
- wait_until:
media_player.is_idle:
- light.turn_off: led
else:
- light.turn_off: led
on_error:
- light.turn_on:
id: led
blue: 0%
red: 100%
green: 0%
- delay: 1s
- light.turn_off: led
binary_sensor:
- platform: gpio
pin:
number: GPIO39
inverted: true
name: Button
disabled_by_default: true
entity_category: diagnostic
id: echo_button
on_press:
- voice_assistant.start:
on_release:
- voice_assistant.stop:
light:
- platform: neopixelbus
id: led
name: ${friendly_name}
pin: GPIO27
variant: SK6812
num_leds: 1
type: grb
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I don’t know what you mean by “original one”, but it is not the one on github.
In any event your indentation is clearly wrong. Look under your voice_assistant: line.
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oh yeah just saw the double entry… somehow i have mixed up a few things here 
Its based on the orginal one and i have only changed a few things, it was working afterwards as i could use the device as expected. But i might have done things wrong afterwards
Thanks for your help so far!
You talk nonsense. Stop it. I already said, no one knows what you mean by “original one” no one knows why you have “changed a few things” or what those things were. I didn’t refer to “the double entry”. I referred to obviously incorrect indentation.
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Well i never asked you personally to answer here!! And who are you to tell me what to do or not to ? 
Sometimes I wonder why I try to help here.
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Nevermind - i appreciated your help a few times in this thread already… i guess i said thank you as well
But there is no need to tell me to “stop talking nonsense” (that rude) as it was not. That´s it
I thought this was required reading. Clearly not everyone does.
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Not the point i was talking about but as i said nevermind… 
Anyone know why this page has disappeared?
https://www.home-assistant.io/projects/thirteen-usd-voice-remote/
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Maybe just temporary…
LOL, I only just realized that there are two of these YAML files from ESPHome for the M5Stack Atom Echo devices:
-
https://github.com/esphome/firmware/blob/3462e80829099395613b550dbfa28518292ae01e/voice-assistant/m5stack-atom-echo.yaml
Voice Assistant One - doesn’t enable a media_player but uses speaker instead, also uses a single button press to toggle enabling the voice assistant to listen until there’s noise and silence. -
https://github.com/esphome/media-players/blob/836631e8ca446c84485bba2199f21fdfb398ba89/m5stack-atom-echo.yaml
Media Player One - enables a media_player instead of speaker, sets up a momentary button where you hold the button down while addressing the voice assistant, when you let it go it processes the result. A short button click hits the play/pause on the media_player
I really like the idea of being able to send media to these things so I’ve been trying to get them to work…
The Voice Assistant One seems to work pretty well, all as described:
- click the button, light turns blue
- start speaking and the blue light flashes indicating that it’s listening to you
- stop talking and HA processes the result
- HA executes the command if it understood what you said and the light turns green
- HA sends back the TTS result and the Atom Echo says it! SUCCESS
The Media Player One doesn’t seem to work as well for me. It uses a pretty customized on_multi_click under the hood instead of a on_click.
- push the button in, light stays off
- start speaking and the light turns blue
- stop speaking and let the button go, light stays on for a second or two
- light turns red
- HA executes the command if it understood
- light turns green
- light turns off
There’s no feedback audio, though in the serial logs I can see that it attempted to send one back. The weird thing is that I can use the media player to send TTS from Google or Piper to the little Atom Echo and it works just fine as a “one-off” but when it’s in this process pipeline it doesn’t work:
[08:12:25][D][binary_sensor:036]: 'Button': Sending state ON
[08:12:26][D][voice_assistant:132]: Requesting start...
[08:12:26][D][voice_assistant:111]: Starting...
[08:12:26][D][voice_assistant:154]: Assist Pipeline running
[08:12:26][D][light:036]: 'None' Setting:
[08:12:26][D][light:047]: State: ON
[08:12:26][D][light:059]: Red: 0%, Green: 0%, Blue: 100%
[08:12:27][D][binary_sensor:036]: 'Button': Sending state OFF
[08:12:27][D][voice_assistant:144]: Signaling stop...
[08:12:29][E][voice_assistant:231]: Error: speech-timeout - No speech detected
[08:12:29][D][voice_assistant:144]: Signaling stop...
[08:12:29][D][light:036]: 'None' Setting:
[08:12:29][D][light:059]: Red: 100%, Green: 0%, Blue: 0%
[08:12:30][D][voice_assistant:168]: Speech recognised as: " office light on."
[08:12:30][D][voice_assistant:144]: Signaling stop...
[08:12:30][D][voice_assistant:192]: Response: "Turned on light"
[08:12:30][D][light:036]: 'None' Setting:
[08:12:30][D][light:059]: Red: 0%, Green: 100%, Blue: 0%
[08:12:30][D][voice_assistant:207]: Response URL: "http://redacted/api/tts_proxy/c9423eae01959b2af87c0b8d21f861b36e9b0fec_en-us_8f9b84fea8_tts.piper.raw"
[08:12:30][D][media_player:059]: 'None' - Setting
[08:12:30][D][media_player:066]: Media URL: http://redacted/api/tts_proxy/c9423eae01959b2af87c0b8d21f861b36e9b0fec_en-us_8f9b84fea8_tts.piper.raw
[08:12:30][D][light:036]: 'None' Setting:
[08:12:30][D][light:059]: Red: 0%, Green: 100%, Blue: 0%
[08:12:30][D][light:109]: Effect: 'Pulse'
[08:12:30][W][component:204]: Component api took a long time for an operation (0.05 s).
[08:12:30][W][component:205]: Components should block for at most 20-30ms.
[08:12:31][W][component:204]: Component i2s_audio.media_player took a long time for an operation (0.55 s).
[08:12:31][W][component:205]: Components should block for at most 20-30ms.
[08:12:31][D][light:036]: 'None' Setting:
[08:12:31][D][light:047]: State: OFF
[08:12:31][D][light:109]: Effect: 'None'
[08:12:31][D][voice_assistant:218]: Assist Pipeline ended
[08:12:31][W][component:204]: Component i2s_audio.media_player took a long time for an operation (0.45 s).
[08:12:31][W][component:205]: Components should block for at most 20-30ms.
[08:12:32][D][light:036]: 'None' Setting:
[08:12:38][D][sensor:094]: 'Echo1 Uptime Raw': Sending state 324.20999 s with 0 decimals of accuracy
In the log it says “No speech detected” but I spoke pretty quickly after pressing the button, and clearly it recognized what I said because it turned on the office light.
I was reading the ESPHome page for Voice Assistant (Voice Assistant — ESPHome) and I see it suggests options for both “Push to Talk” (momentary) and “Click to Converse” (toggle) using on_press/on_release and on_click, respectively. I see why the media_player one uses on_multi_click but I might try to use the suggested thing from ESPHome and forego the single click to play/pause and see if that helps…
Anyone have any other ideas?
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