Why won't HA use bluetooth speakers?

Ideal situation for me would be combination of ESPHome’s bluetooth proxy functionality and Bluetooth speakers/headphones.

So Have ESP32s in many rooms, that talk over wifi with ESPHome / Home Assistant backend and connect over Bluetooth with Bluetooth speakers / headphones in the respective rooms. Basically ESPHome should support A2DP Bluetooth profile on ESP32.

Obviously they (The ESP32s instead of the Bluetooth speakers/headphones I’d assume would make more sense) should be seen as mediaplayers in Hass.

Also discussed here: ESP32 with Bluetooth Speaker as Media Player for Music Assistant - #13 by tipouletdomo

I created an ESPHome feature request, so please upvote :slight_smile: Support for A2DP Bluetooth profile (mainly audio sender) · Issue #2456 · esphome/feature-requests · GitHub

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