Iām still working on question one too. It seems like a microphone array is the best option but a lot of them seem over built for the task.
Agreed. I canāt seem to find something that I can migrate to which doesnāt require a huge reprogramming effort. I would love local control but donāt want to spend my Saturdays and freetime struggling to figure out why itās suddenly not working. Alexa is shitty and doesnāt have tons of flexible control, but itās āuptimeā is very good, and does well for playing audio for the fam. self noteā¦ Get away from Spotify while Iām at it š
I donāt mind building the stuff when Iām in the mood. When Logitech decided to shut down the Harmony remote line I wrote my own version of a Hub into Home Assistant It was fun and it works better.
But now Iām tech support for it and if it breaks down I have to work on it whether I want to or not. Itās put me off wanting to build more stuff from scratch.
This is an instance where I think the folks at nobu casa (paid branch of home assistant development) could dedicate some resources to hardware. Instead of the prebuilt SBC stuff like HA-blue, or yellow or whatever. Create an esp device that just has a reliable microphone, and crank them out. Iād buy one for every room in my house!
Iāve got an esp army in my greenhouse that runs wLED, and one of them has a mic for doing the sound reactive display stuff, but itās running wLED, not ESPHomeā¦ I wonder how easy it would be to just slap a digital mic on some of the other esp things Iāve got floating around?
