Smart alarm clock and capabilities

Hardware
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Hey all,

I’m looking for a new physical alarm clock with a radio(speaker)

What it should be able to do:

  • Show the time (obviously)

  • Be able to play sound (not just a beeper)

  • Be able to set an alarm with home assistant (I want home assistant to set a different alarm time depending on my calendar)

I was looking, and found different products:

  • Sandman doppler: They are sold out, and it looks like they aren’t in business anymore (they haven’t posted since 2023, and the only thing in stock are T-shirts with their branding)

  • Echo spot clock: sadly not available in my region (belgium, europe)

  • Mi Smart Clock: I find a lot of information of people jailbraking this device and running android on this, and using it for the HA dashboard. But that is not my intention. Can someone confirm that with home assistant can set an alarm at a certain time? (and not rely on home assistant using it as a media player, and play audio at a specific hour)

  • JBL horizon 3: This looks interesting, but it isn’t released yet. And JBL one app hasn’t been integrated in HA (or I can’t find it).

I found some 3D printed solutions, but they look too much DIY for my taste. The Ulanzi TC001 looks nice, but sadly it doesn’t have audio (just a beep, and that isn’t nice to wake up with)

Any clocks that you guys use, or know about? Or if someone can tell me if it is possible to enable/disable the alarm with the Mi Smart clock

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I wouldn’t overthink this.

If you have an old Android phone you’re practically set. All you need is:

  • Phone (obviously, with auto lock disabled in settings)
  • Companion App
  • Sleep as Android alarm app
  • (Optional) charging stand for your mobile

Only thing Sleep as Android doesn’t seem do is show the current time natively. For that you can either use the phone clock or a custom dashboard. Enabling/disabling/setting alarms should be possible via broadcast intents.

Even if you don’t like the idea of using a mobile, the above should also be possible on the Mi Smart Clock if you install android.

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Check prior threads about several deepseek voice assistants. Many of these are based on an esp32-s3, driving a display (some with touchscreen), DAC with small amp and speaker, microphone, rgb LED. The hardware seems to be rather straight forward (and there are already promising reports about using them with esphome as voice assistant for home-assistant), ranging from 15-25 EUR.

Probably a bit more diy at the moment, but the hardware is cheap and should cover your needs (I wouldn’t quite expect HiFi quality though).

E.g. Low cost ESP32 voice platforms

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Oh thanks. I wasn’t aware of the intents. I should indeed take a look at them

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Late to the party, but there is a nice project which fits your needs. See:

I have build three of them and will install and use them soon.

Hope this helps

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Instead of the Mi Smart Clock, I got the Xiaomi smart speaker with integrated clock display: Xiaomi Smart Speaker IR Control - Xiaomi Global.
Works with HA as a speaker, playing anything you program it to - or - if you’d like - with Google Home Assistant (the app has possibilities to program alarms and other messages).

Bought it initially as a wifi speaker but since it has a clock display, I chose to use it in the bedroom as an alarm clock.

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