Let me start with big thank you to the team that has dedicated so much time in getting voice assistants up and operational in HA - this project has been awesome and @synesthesiam and others get all of the kudos, this post isn’t intended to undercut any of that work.
That made clear, as an early adopter (and feedback provider!) of Wyoming Satellite (built units on RPI4s with Seeed mics), I’m very confused on the roadmap for voice features overall. It appears all of the work has been shifted to focus on the ESPHome-based VPE hardware they’re selling. Is the expectation that if you’re a Wyoming Satellite user who build satellites during last year’s “Year of the Voice” you should just eat the sunk cost and shift to VPE? Or should we hang on and just wait for certain features (pre-announce, start conversation, continue conversation, etc.) to flow to the Wyoming Satellite architecture as well. If so, is that a couple of releases, or a couple of years?
I’m all good with selling hardware, and even making that hardware the priority, I just want to understand if I’ve wandered down a dead-end road (development-wise) and need to reverse course, or just be patient? Any insights? TIA