Just bought mine from Seed Studio to Australia - Melbourne. $104 AUD. This looks fun
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Great stuff! Might even make me look at voice assistant. I never quite got into that before.
This is especially great to hear! There’s been some talk in other threads about the HA dev team’s direction to make HA less customizable. I’m glad this project isn’t going that way.
Suggestion for a future production run: offer a black case. Keep everything else the same, but a black case would help those of us without 3D printers since it will blend in to darker furniture easier.
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Would you consider also creating a similar
model that also has a 3.5 mm audio input jack and features in ESPHome to stream to Music Assistant?
Would love a simple way to get analog audio streaming from an turntable (vinyl record player) that Music Assistant can play on any speakers.
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I can see many etsy decal stores popping up
We’re adding Australian resellers to the site soon, they just did not have their product pages ready in time for the announcement.
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How exactly does this work? Does then HA send the voice reply to the satellite, which tells it “nah, play it elsewhere” and then HA send it to the desired speaker, or does HA send it directly to the configured speaker?
And also, if I ask it “set volume to 50%”, does it set the volume of the satellite or the configured media_player?
If it can set the volume and set the voice directly to the configured speaker, than it is great news and I’d be very keen to get some to replace Alexa.
As a voice assistant this speaks Wyoming protocol, doesn’t it?
I took a look at home-assistant-voice-pe/home-assistant-voice.yaml at cb68c5da171d68017afd60ad41a5f8f76c812d3f · esphome/home-assistant-voice-pe · GitHub but I cannot find where to set the Wyoming URI.
Very much looking forward to this! I can’t wait!
One small remark about the wording, especially in the documentation (where e.g. “changing the volume” is directly above “muting the device”, in Documentation – Home Assistant Voice Preview Edition): for a device that has microphone AND speaker, “mute switch” and “muting the device” leaves room for misunderstandings. Am i keeping the device from listening? Or am i cutting all sounds it might play? I know it’s the first option, but as this device is marketed explicitly not as a diy device, reading deeper into the documentation beyond “ah, this switch is called mute switch, so i guess it mutes the sound, got it” cannot be savely assumed.
Oh, and a completely different question: are the circuit diagrams available somewhere? Would be awesome 
thanks!
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Just to be sure: if I want to use it in a non-fully supported language, say French, or a low-powered device, I need to buy a monthly HA cloud subscription?
So, if this is fully open source, where are the hardware design files? If you don’t provide schematics (and much better also pcb layout, bom, pick and place data) then stop calling it “Fully Open Source”.
Otherwise great addition to the Home Assistant cosmos. Looking forward to get one as soon as i figure out how to build one.
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Is the volume adjustable via HA or voice command or only physical volume dial?
I got to say, I’m excited for this and it seems well designed, but I’m not sure of the price point. Seems a bit expensive for an esp32, two mics and a low powered speaker.
I’m also wondering about the availability of the PCB files. Can we expect them to be provided in the near future?
Alternatively have very powerful hardware to run the large model of Whisper or wait for Rhasspy Speech
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It is 5V 2A. Sorry for stating the wrong information during the stream. 
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Product page is super cool! 
Some wishes/ideas for the next model:
- black version
- a better internal speaker similar to nest mini
- maybe alternative initial setup method over usb cable?
- more interfaces for external speakers (spdif, usb, Bluetooth)
- several sound options for feedback
A few question:
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It’s not clear if internal speaker is disabled when external speakers connected
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Can it be powered from the same mini-pc where HA running? And also use this usb connection for data, avoiding wi-fi/Bluetooth completely?
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Hmm… am I too late? Looks like ameriDroid and CloudFree are both sold out already, and SeedStudio refuses to let me add it to the cart 
Dang.
I posted this already in the other blog post announcement (strange that there was two different release threads) but this thread seems to be getting all the attention so I’ll repost here and delete the other.
I’ve not looked to much into HA voice yet because it seemed that to make your own voice device was fiddly and I never saw any real step-by-step start to finish tutorials. So I’ve been kind of waiting till this matured a bit more. I think this might be the time.
But I have questions…
Do current HA Cloud subscribers get access to the HA Cloud voice engine included with their subscription? If so, what is the outlook on this becoming a separate or higher tier subscription fee for current subscribers?
Does the voice assistant have the ability to initiate a conversation from within HA via an automation/script? Or can it only respond to wake words?
right now I use the Actionable Notification via the Alexa Media Player custom integration to initiate actionable notifications that I only need to provide a very limited response reaction to. It asks me a question (pre-programmed in the tts automation) and all I respond right now is ‘yes’, ‘no’ or no response. I’ve tried it with other data types but couldn’t get good results. Such as “what time do you want me to set the alarm on your phone?” and a response of “eight fifteen am” seemed to make it unhappy.
I don’t need a full featured voice assistant. All I need is TTS (like is provided by AMP) and limited actionable notifications (again currently provided by AMP), and voice control of my devices.
I assume this is this something that the HA Voice Preview can do?
I would be interested if there is any language quality scale? From time to time I have tested German on my mobile phone via Cloud, but 75% percent of the commands were not understood. Will it be better with Voice Preview Device?! Would love to test it, but I expect the same. Will wait most likely bevor burying the device.