I will add instructions and schematics. Basically it requires soldering corresponding pins with cables. Probably I could make some cradle board, but it’s hard with the placement of elements.
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How do i select a wake word. Its greyed out here and if i change it on the voice assistant page it does not change it in reality. Currently its Ok Nabu. I changed everywhere I could find to Hey Jarvis but it only answer’s to Ok Nabu. Using 1.0.9 from here: GitHub - formatBCE/Respeaker-Lite-ESPHome-integration
Second question is how do I setup a custom wake word.
Third question can i have multiple assistants with different wake words. It would be nice to have two different llms with each their own personality and custom wake word.
Oh and one more question. can the respeaker lite connect to a bluetooth speaker.
I like your enclosure. I am using the 3.5 mm jack for an external speaker. Does the enclosure have a hole for the jack?
- Some incompatibility with HA satellite process, this drop-down is unavailable for me too…
To switch wake word, remove ok_naby from YAML and leave hey_jarvis or hey_mycroft there. - You can in theory, but on practice MWW wake words are too hard to train properly.
- No. ESP32S3 is powerful, but not enough to have active connection on WiFi and Bluetooth simultaneously.
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Thank you for your quick response and also for sharing your yaml and firmware to allow this to work.
How do you get stereo out of a 2 pin jtag connector off the device?
I have a couple old 2 wire 10 watt 4 ohm Cambridge sound works speakers. (No 3.5mm plug) I think the repspeaker lite board is only works up to 5 watts. I assume the board will not drive these? Will it harm the board if I try? Ho do I connect 2 2 wire speakers to the jtag and keep stereo?
Sadly my powered portable Bose speakers that do have line in all power off after a time so thats not such a good idea anymore.
10W speakers won’t harm, while impendance is correct - they will just be very quiet.
But there’s no way to get stereo sound from mono connector. That connector is for small speakers for making it alexa-like device, not for stereo playback.
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FYI, FutureProofHomes has now also announced the final hardware design of their much more advanced ”Satellite1 Dev Kit” (or rather announced a public beta pre-launch with pre-order for their the USA only) so that development board hardware looks fully ready too even if not available to ship as of yet.
As you can see in their video they taken a very different approach by making it modular using a two-board design that seperate the compute board from the voice board, and making it compatible with the Raspberry Pi Zero standard it will be both flexible today and upgradable to other compute boards in the future.
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Sadly no hole for the 3.5mm jack and no hole on that end for the usb. I thought we were supposed to power it from the main board not the esp.
Oh yeah, i’m contributing to that project! 
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Great, waiting for the scehamtics so that I know what pin to connect to what pin
Added pinout for everything.
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I’m thinking of buying a ReSpeaker Lite and getting it ready, but I still have a few questions? I’m also wavering between the home assistant voice and the respeaker.
The home-assistant voice has a slide switch to turn off the microphones but the ReSpeaker Lite has a dip switch for mute? Is it technically the same or are we talking about mute on the mono box for outgoing sound?
I would also like to know whether the mute button switches off the microphones on the hardware side, as it does on the home assistant voice?
Is a small mono box necessary? I mainly want to do something like “open the door” or “switch off the light in the kitchen”. Am I missing something? Should I order a mono box as well?
Mute button on Respeaker does mute microphones. It does that on hardware level. However, the switch also exposed to the ESPHome (if mute is soldered to D3 pin), and can be toggled programmatically.
I have no idea what’s “mono box”. With Assist you can do simple things like turn things on/off by default - and write your own sentences too. If you mean LLM, you don’t need it for simple things.
A mono speaker is not a stereo speaker 
Thanks for your reply.
So to avoid the possibility of overriding a physically pressed mute button on the software side, do I have to unsolder/scratch the soldered “cable” to the d3 pin?
Ah you mean the speaker for voice responses? You may use either mono-speaker with JST connector (or soldered directly), or 3.5mm audio jack to connect to stereo. Also there’s trick to send TTS to other media player in HA.
Respeaker Lite comes with DESOLDERED mute pin. If you don’t want programmatical control, just don’t solder it.
Another question. Will you update the ReSpeaker Lite
or is this one dropped for your koala project?
Your ReSpeaker Lite Software is very good, but I fear this wont work in the future after your fokus is on Koala now.
Another question, which budget 3D Printer you would recommend. For your Koala, you have used Bambu Lab A1, right? Would you buy it again?
I will update Respeaker. I use several of them around the house.
And yes, I’d buy A1 again, no doubt.
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Many many thanks Is there a way to buy you a “coffee”? 
Thanks! It’s on Github, buttin is there: GitHub - formatBCE/Koala-Satellite: This satellite for Home Assistant is based on ESP32-S3 DevkitC, Respeaker Lite board with XMOS XU316, with LED strip and dial. It's using most of the Voice PE device features, supports BLE Improv and automatic updates.
I am trying to wire up koala and am running into an issue with 5v. The instructions suggest running 5v from the esp to the respeaker lite processor pads, which I have done. However, both the led strip and rotary encoder also require connections to 5v on the esp board according to the instructions. However, there is only one 5v pin on the esp board. Did you expect a splice on the 5v wire? Also, is 5v power to the respeaker lite board coming from the esp processor wiring or do I need to solder a wire to the 5v pad on the side of the respeaker board?