I currently have my echos integrated with HA using the HA cloud and also have Volumio as a whole home audio solution and would like to have the music lower volume of the Volumio instance when an Echo has been woken up. Is it possible for HA to know when an Echo is awake?
I just did a quick test. While watching my entities display. The echos/dots were in standby mode when not doing something. When I asked for slow jazz in the bathroom, that media_player.406_bathroom_echo_dot went immediately to “playing”. When I ask the living room dot for the weather… no status change, (maybe because it only lasted about 20 seconds).
Does it change the status without actually playing anything? Just simply speaking the wake word, nothing else
No. and I have to keep typing because comments here require at least 10 characters. 