Thanks to Smart Home Junkie’s video (invidious link), I had my Atom Echos as voice recognition boxes with all audio output redirected to a media player of my choice (because the audio on the Echo is super quiet).
Whenever ESPHome updated, I updated my Echos to get the recent ESPHome updates, and then reinstalled the custom yaml for audio redirection.
However, with ESPHome’s recent 2024.6.4 update, trying to install the yaml triggers errors that don’t seem to make sense. For example, here’s a section of the yaml:
microphone:
- platform: i2s_audio
id: echo_microphone_kitchen
i2s_din_pin: GPIO23
adc_type: external
pdm: true
speaker:
- platform: i2s_audio
id: echo_speaker_kitchen
i2s_dout_pin: GPIO21
dac_type: external
mode: mono
voice_assistant:
id: va
microphone: echo_microphone_kitchen
speaker: echo_speaker_kitchen
noise_suppression_level: 2
auto_gain: 31dBFS
volume_multiplier: 2.0
vad_threshold: 3
on_listening:
- light.turn_on:
id: led
blue: 100%
red: 0%
green: 0%
effect: "Slow Pulse"
on_stt_vad_end:
- light.turn_on:
id: led
blue: 100%
red: 0%
green: 0%
effect: "Fast Pulse"
on_tts_start:
- light.turn_on:
id: led
blue: 100%
red: 0%
green: 0%
brightness: 100%
effect: none
on_tts_end:
- homeassistant.service:
service: media_player.play_media
data:
entity_id: media_player.${media_player}
media_content_id: !lambda 'return x;'
media_content_type: music
announce: "false"
on_end:
- delay: 100ms
- wait_until:
not:
speaker.is_playing:
- script.execute: reset_led
on_error:
- light.turn_on:
id: led
red: 100%
green: 0%
blue: 0%
brightness: 100%
effect: none
- delay: 1s
- script.execute: reset_led
on_client_connected:
- if:
condition:
switch.is_on: use_wake_word
then:
- voice_assistant.start_continuous:
- script.execute: reset_led
on_client_disconnected:
- if:
condition:
switch.is_on: use_wake_word
then:
- voice_assistant.stop:
- light.turn_off: led
external_components:
- source: github://pr#5230
components:
- esp_adf
refresh: 0s
esp_adf:
On lines 3 and 10 I define unique IDs for the device’s microphone and speaker.
But ESPHome won’t compile, telling me:
- on line 46: Too many candidates found for ‘id’ type ‘speaker::Speaker’ Some are ‘echo_speaker’, ‘echo_speaker_kitchen’.
- on line 57: Too many candidates found for ‘id’ type ‘speaker::Speaker’ Some are ‘echo_speaker’, ‘echo_speaker_kitchen’.
- on line 77: Too many candidates found for ‘id’ type ‘microphone::Microphone’ Some are ‘echo_microphone’, ‘echo_microphone_kitchen’.
- on line 90: Too many candidates found for ‘id’ type ‘speaker::Speaker’ Some are ‘echo_speaker’, ‘echo_speaker_kitchen’.
There are no other occurrences of the word “speaker” or “microphone” in the conf yaml (and I’m not including other yaml files).
I’m assuming most of this config is default, and the only things I care about are forcing pin 21 for the speaker (line 11) and redirecting audio to my media player (lines 45-52).
I’m not in a place to actually help as I’m on vacation: but since it’s a compile issue, if you posted a minimally failing-to-compilr version (no credentials) of your full YAML someone could conceivably be able to troubleshoot it
Thanks for the suggestion, @Windex007@lemmy.world, but by the time I saw it, JustEnoughDucks had suggested a fix.
on_tts_end:
you have a media player component while you define a speaker instead. They are not interchangeable. It is likely trying to grab default values from somewhere because of that. Media player is better if you want the device to also play music or alerts through home assistant instead of voice assistant or some preset wav files.
Media player is also a speaker using an arduino library (not compatible with esp_adf as that uses the esp-idf framework and not arduino). If you want to use the media player, you have to get rid of vad_threshold
and the esp_adf.
Please follow this yaml for an esp-idf config using the speaker instead of the media player: https://github.com/esphome/firmware/blob/main/voice-assistant/m5stack-atom-echo.yaml
Thanks for the help, @JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl.
I copied the yaml you suggested and made 2 changes:
I changed the i2s_dout_pin
from GPI
to GPI
:
speaker:
- platform: i2s_audio
id: echo_speaker
i2s_dout_pin: GPIO21
dac_type: external
mode: mono
…and added my on_tts_end
with the media_player:
on_tts_end:
- homeassistant.service:
service: media_player.play_media
data:
entity_id: media_player.${media_player}
media_content_id: !lambda 'return x;'
media_content_type: music
announce: "false"
This did compile and the audio output from the echo is played on the media_player, but the audio is also played on the Echo itself. Previously, changing the i2s_dout_pin
from GPI
to GPI
prevented the Echo from playing the audio (I think by directing audio data to pin 21, which is not used).
I’m not sure what you meant here:
Media player is also a speaker using an arduino library (not compatible with esp_adf as that uses the esp-idf framework and not arduino). If you want to use the media player, you have to get rid of vad_threshold and the esp_adf.
I tried removing “vad_threshold: 3” and the “esp_adf” component:
external_components:
- source: github://pr#5230
components:
refresh: 0s
- source: github://jesserockz/esphome-components
components: [file]
refresh: 0s
…but with the same result: audio plays on both the media_player and the Echo’s speaker.
Instead of trying to prevent the audio from getting to the Echo’s speaker, is there a way to just turn the Echo’s speaker volume to zero?
Sorry, I misunderstood what you are trying to do here. I thought you were trying to use the Atom Echo itself as a media player. Disregard that arduino library comment, it isn’t relevant. I just watched the video since I couldn’t earlier.
Indeed what you are doing should work. Are you certain that the upload was successful? With GPIO21 set as the speaker output, the speaker data should absolutely not work. The fact that it does means that somewhere along the line, the GPIO22 is set as the speaker output.
(sorry about my delayed response, @JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl )
I’m sure that the install is successful because there are no errors during/after install, the Echo recognizes speech and interacts with Home Assistant, and when I change something in the yaml (e.g., which media player to pipe the audio to) the change takes effect.
Here’s something weird: I believe the default pin for “speaker” should be GPIO22, and when I switch it to GPIO21 it should not work. This works on some of my Echos, but not all of them!
Also weird: I think the standard pinout is:
- GPIO0: Button (Boot)
- GPIO19: LED (RGB)
- GPIO21: I2C SDA
- GPIO22: I2C SCL
- GPIO23: Speaker (PWM output)
- GPIO25: Microphone (Analog input)
Though I don’t know what these mean, I tried setting “speaker” to GPIO18 - which apparently isn’t used- and still the audio comes out of the Echo speaker! But again, only on some of my Echos.
I’d think that maybe some of these Echos are ignoring the GPIO setting for “speaker” and using a default, but these Echos used to work! (that is, they used to not play audio out of the Echo speaker when “speaker” was GPIO21). And so I want to think that maybe the ESPHome upgrade made them stop working, but all my Echos have the same upgrade and yet still some of them work.
Is there a way to config the Echo speaker to have zero volume? If so, I could just set that and then who cares if the audio is piped to it.
FYI, here’s the config yaml I’m copy-pasting for all my Echos. The only thing that changes are in the “substitutions” section:
substitutions:
name: m5stack-echo-kitchen
friendly_name: M5Stack Atom Echo - Kitchen
media_player: kitchen_speaker
encryption_key: !secret kitchen_encryption_key
speaker_i2s_dout_pin: "GPIO21"
esphome:
name: ${name}
name_add_mac_suffix: false
friendly_name: ${friendly_name}
project:
name: m5stack.atom-echo-voice-assistant
version: "1.0"
min_version: 2024.6.0
esp32:
board: m5stack-atom
framework:
type: esp-idf
api:
encryption:
key: ${encryption_key}
ota:
- platform: esphome
id: ota_esphome
dashboard_import:
package_import_url: github://esphome/firmware/voice-assistant/m5stack-atom-echo.yaml@main
wifi:
ssid: !secret wifi_ssid
password: !secret wifi_password
on_connect:
- delay: 5s # Gives time for improv results to be transmitted
- ble.disable:
on_disconnect:
- ble.enable:
ap:
improv_serial:
esp32_improv:
authorizer: none
button:
- platform: factory_reset
id: factory_reset_btn
name: Factory reset
i2s_audio:
- id: i2s_audio_bus
i2s_lrclk_pin: GPIO33
i2s_bclk_pin: GPIO19
microphone:
- platform: i2s_audio
id: echo_microphone
i2s_din_pin: GPIO23
adc_type: external
pdm: true
speaker:
- platform: i2s_audio
id: echo_speaker
i2s_dout_pin: ${speaker_i2s_dout_pin}
dac_type: external
mode: mono
voice_assistant:
id: va
microphone: echo_microphone
speaker: echo_speaker
noise_suppression_level: 2
auto_gain: 31dBFS
volume_multiplier: 2.0
on_listening:
- light.turn_on:
id: led
blue: 100%
red: 0%
green: 0%
effect: "Slow Pulse"
on_stt_vad_end:
- light.turn_on:
id: led
blue: 100%
red: 0%
green: 0%
effect: "Fast Pulse"
on_tts_start:
- light.turn_on:
id: led
blue: 100%
red: 0%
green: 0%
brightness: 100%
effect: none
on_tts_end:
- homeassistant.service:
service: media_player.play_media
data:
entity_id: media_player.${media_player}
media_content_id: !lambda 'return x;'
media_content_type: music
announce: "false"
on_end:
- delay: 100ms
- wait_until:
not:
speaker.is_playing:
- script.execute: reset_led
on_error:
- light.turn_on:
id: led
red: 100%
green: 0%
blue: 0%
brightness: 100%
effect: none
- delay: 1s
- script.execute: reset_led
on_client_connected:
- if:
condition:
switch.is_on: use_wake_word
then:
- voice_assistant.start_continuous:
- script.execute: reset_led
on_client_disconnected:
- if:
condition:
switch.is_on: use_wake_word
then:
- voice_assistant.stop:
- light.turn_off: led
on_timer_finished:
- voice_assistant.stop:
- switch.turn_on: timer_ringing
- wait_until:
not:
microphone.is_capturing:
- light.turn_on:
id: led
red: 0%
green: 100%
blue: 0%
brightness: 100%
effect: "Fast Pulse"
- while:
condition:
switch.is_on: timer_ringing
then:
- lambda: id(echo_speaker).play(id(timer_finished_wave_file), sizeof(id(timer_finished_wave_file)));
- delay: 1s
- wait_until:
not:
speaker.is_playing:
- light.turn_off: led
- switch.turn_off: timer_ringing
- if:
condition:
switch.is_on: use_wake_word
then:
- voice_assistant.start_continuous:
- script.execute: reset_led
binary_sensor:
- platform: gpio
pin:
number: GPIO39
inverted: true
name: Button
disabled_by_default: true
entity_category: diagnostic
id: echo_button
on_multi_click:
- timing:
- ON for at least 50ms
- OFF for at least 50ms
then:
- if:
condition:
switch.is_on: timer_ringing
then:
- switch.turn_off: timer_ringing
else:
- if:
condition:
switch.is_off: use_wake_word
then:
- if:
condition: voice_assistant.is_running
then:
- voice_assistant.stop:
- script.execute: reset_led
else:
- voice_assistant.start:
else:
- voice_assistant.stop
- delay: 1s
- script.execute: reset_led
- script.wait: reset_led
- voice_assistant.start_continuous:
- timing:
- ON for at least 10s
then:
- button.press: factory_reset_btn
light:
- platform: esp32_rmt_led_strip
id: led
name: None
disabled_by_default: true
entity_category: config
pin: GPIO27
default_transition_length: 0s
chipset: SK6812
num_leds: 1
rgb_order: grb
rmt_channel: 0
effects:
- pulse:
name: "Slow Pulse"
transition_length: 250ms
update_interval: 250ms
min_brightness: 50%
max_brightness: 100%
- pulse:
name: "Fast Pulse"
transition_length: 100ms
update_interval: 100ms
min_brightness: 50%
max_brightness: 100%
script:
- id: reset_led
then:
- if:
condition:
- switch.is_on: use_wake_word
- switch.is_on: use_listen_light
then:
- light.turn_on:
id: led
red: 100%
green: 89%
blue: 71%
brightness: 60%
effect: none
else:
- light.turn_off: led
switch:
- platform: template
name: Use wake word
id: use_wake_word
optimistic: true
restore_mode: RESTORE_DEFAULT_ON
entity_category: config
on_turn_on:
- lambda: id(va).set_use_wake_word(true);
- if:
condition:
not:
- voice_assistant.is_running
then:
- voice_assistant.start_continuous
- script.execute: reset_led
on_turn_off:
- voice_assistant.stop
- lambda: id(va).set_use_wake_word(false);
- script.execute: reset_led
- platform: template
name: Use listen light
id: use_listen_light
optimistic: true
restore_mode: RESTORE_DEFAULT_ON
entity_category: config
on_turn_on:
- script.execute: reset_led
on_turn_off:
- script.execute: reset_led
- platform: template
id: timer_ringing
optimistic: true
internal: true
restore_mode: ALWAYS_OFF
on_turn_on:
- delay: 15min
- switch.turn_off: timer_ringing
external_components:
- source: github://pr#5230
components:
refresh: 0s
- source: github://jesserockz/esphome-components
components: [file]
refresh: 0s
file:
- id: timer_finished_wave_file
file: https://github.com/esphome/firmware/raw/main/voice-assistant/sounds/timer_finished.wav
logger: