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Wyoming Satellites - What's your go-to purchase? (poptalk.scrubbles.tech)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/homeassistant

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Curious to see how many people here are using Wyoming Satellites, and if so, what are you doing to build/house them?

I have a sample one working on an old pi and a computer speaker hooked up, with my primary Blue mic. Obviously this isn't long term, and I'm looking at building a few of these.

So, what do you use? Raspberry pi? Some sort of hat on it? What sort of casing do you use? Any really cool implementations? I'll take all ideas and suggestions!

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I've accomplished this with the Atom Echo and they work... fine?

The speaker is essentially inaudible, but the mic works well enough for me to just yell at HomeAssistant to do things.

And hey, can't beat the size/price/power footprint and the deployment with ESPHome takes like, 30 seconds.

[–] Uncurious3512 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Thanks for sharing! Do you know of a guide you can share on how to get it up and running?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Yep, it's fully supported in HA/ESP32 and is suuuuuper easy to deploy and configure and the HA devs even documented how: https://www.home-assistant.io/voice_control/thirteen-usd-voice-remote/

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

These are neat! Good note about the speaker, I'll try one out

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

If all you need is for it to go 'I turned on the light', they're fine. I wouldn't expect to use them for anything more detailed or music-oriented.