Start listening without wake word

brix29 · October 12, 2024, 8:39pm

Hi HA assist experts,
I have a Wyoming satellite for HA assist. Is it possible to activate “listening” without the wake word using a service call / action call?
I would like to trigger listening with an automation.
Thank you very much!

Edwin_D · October 12, 2024, 9:07pm

If you search the forum, you can find topics about this:

brix29 · October 12, 2024, 9:48pm

Hi Edwin,

Thank you for the link. it’s a solution for ESPHome. I searching for this functionality in HA. “voice_assistant.start_continuous” is not available unfortunately. Or I missed it…

Thanks again.

Edwin_D · October 13, 2024, 8:47am

But what is it that you want to start listening then? I’m guessing not the host computer you run HA on. What device are hou targeting?

brix29 · October 13, 2024, 10:29am

I’m running a Wyoming satellite on a RPi4. It’s not set up via ESPHome.

brix29 · October 13, 2024, 9:37pm

github.com/rhasspy/wyoming-satellite

Implement push-to-talk functionality

opened 09:27AM - 11 Dec 23 UTC

chatziko

Now that wyoming-satellite gives you more control over the satellite (similarly… to esphome satellites), it would be very useful (and relatively easy to implement) to add "push-to-talk" functionality to it. I can imagine countless applications of starting a pipeline either by a physical button, or by various automations. We could have a button or service on the HA that starts a pipeline directly at the STT stage, skiping wake word completely. 1. When the satellite is disabled (and ideally idle, see also #4), the button/service could be used to manually run a single pipeline. The server could send `RunSatellite` with an argument to instruct the satellite to go directly to STT (a send back a corresponding `RunPipeline(start_stage=STT)` to the server). 2. When the satellite is enabled, it still makes sense to use the button/service, to skip wake word and go straight to STT. Since there might be an active pipeline at this point, we should stop it and start a new one (or maybe completely stop the satellite and restart it the same way as (1) above). I might give it a try at some point, but I'd like to hear @synesthesiam 's thoughts on this.