Voice Assistant with IKEA SOLSKYDD and Respeaker Lite

[Skyman1 (Valerio)]

You all know the Respaker Lite or at least you can find everything about it…

Then I bought an IKEA SOLKYDD… interested because it has a 3.5mm audio input for the Respaker.

The SOLSKYDD has Bluetooth connection, Optical and with 3.5mm input. I tested the audio only on Bluetooth and I can say that it is quite mediocre. Absolutely not good. Acceptable perhaps for a bedroom. Maybe when paired with other SOLSKYDD the sound is slightly better due to the three-dimensionality… but the musical extension is not good at all.

So I wanted to convert it into a voice assistant with the ability to still play music via the network.

I removed the front panel and opened it.

There is a lot of space to use…

With a drill I made holes in the front for the microphones and the led and and I glued the Respeaker with hot glue

the SOLSKYDD board has two 24V leads so I used a step down converter to bring the 5V to the Respeaker:

I connected the 3.5mm cable and made a hole in the back so it could reach the SOLSKYDD input.

I closed and screwed everything… and everything works perfectly. As mentioned, the musical audio is not great… but for a small room it’s fine.
It definitely needs improvement… maybe I will also add an LD2410 presence sensor in the future.

[lurvig]

I love it! Are there any interferance from the ReSpeaker that is audioble from the speaker? Buzzing and such. What step down did you use?

[Skyman1 (Valerio)]

No, no interference for now.

Only problem… if you have a blackout you have to turn the SOLSKYDD on with a button.

I don’t have any blackout problems at home but this can be fixed… yesterday I added an ESP32C3 with an LD2410 inside. You can clearly see the movement through the plastic.

The Step down is in the photo.
It can handle 4.5 to 28V.