is the respeaker lite media player available to play music in music assistant?
Yes, it’s exposed to HA, and from there you can add it to MA. I play music on it.
for some reason I cannot get it to be recognized in MA.
How are you trying to add it?
You should use HA music provider, and add your player there (with checkbox).
Thanks! I forgot I needed to select it in the HA player provider list. working fine now.
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Can the firmware be modified to include both openwakeword and mww?
I guess it could, yes. I have no time to play with that right now, but i gladly accept PRs 
Seeing this s3 Poe board on AliExpress recently (also has camera port). I wonder if it would work well instead of the s3 devkit?
I am also toying with the idea of using the espressif s3/h2 combo board to use as a thread border router and also run voice assistant (haven’t researched if that’s even possible, idk if esphome has TBR libs that run alongside).
Newer s3 Poe board by waveshare:
I just found this on AliExpress:
C$27.69 | ESP32-S3 ETH Camera Development Board PoE RJ45 / OV2640 OV5640 Port / W5500 / Micro-SD Compatible With Raspberry Pi Pico Size
https://a.aliexpress.com/_mPrX6G3
I honestly don’t think that S3 can hold more than it already has with Voice Assistant and music playback. Even that is optimized by HA, and sometimes leads to crashes on VPE. So at least currently, looks like it’s too early.
I’m sure that the ESPHome firmware will be optimized at some point - but probably having something beefier than S3 in next generation would help too.
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I was thinking that may be the case. My plan is to use the Poe board for voice and have the espressif thread border router board elsewhere.
It would be nice to have the thread border router alongside the voice assistant with poe, but that’s getting greedy lol. I’d settle for the 2 boards in the same enclosure (TBR running the non esphome firmware), just need to figure out splitting the Poe power.
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Of topic. I received today the voice PE from HA. Looks good, but… It’s terrible 
The speaker is so bad 
The kit I build with help from @formatBCE sounds great.
Connecting external speaker by 3.5mm plug makes a distortion, crackling sound and the first word is cut off at the beginning…
So not happy with it. Is there a possibility to connect a better speaker internal? Hope somebody knows??
Maybe worth asking in HA Discord? I don’t have PE to try, but doesn’t look that easy… And the main question is the amplifier used in PE and its maximum power.
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@formatBCE i flashed your yaml from the Xiao Esp32 but somehow my blue LED is always on after the wake word, so no pulsing and it wont Turn Off after the Request. Do i have to Change some configuration in the yaml?
Please solder (bridge) the USR and MUTE buttons to corresponding pins on Respeaker board.
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Thanks👊🏻 I’ll give it a try.
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Thanks for the headsup, totally forgot that. Now its working like a charm.
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For those of you that have a respeaker lite with integrated xiao esp32s3, i made a variant of Koala that allows use of the great sound of the koala case and HA control using the user button and Led strip. Of course, it doesn’t have hardware volume control due to lack of available gpios.
See:https://github.com/rananna/Koala-Satellite/tree/main?tab=readme-ov-file
You need to solder to gpio1 for the led control and print a new faceplate.
Thanks again to formatBCE for his fantastic design and coding!
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thank you so much for keeping the XMOS Version up2date as I had 2 more respeakers lite witch XMOS presoldered on back order and they arrived today, so I’ve soldered those pins and update the yaml. Works like a charm!
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Well, for the record 
I took the PE apart and took out the very tiny internal speaker… Soldered a small 4ohm 5 watt external speaker to the board and placed it outside the casing. The sound improved with 100%. So for now my solution 
With proper enclosure it could be even better
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