Home Assistant Voice Preview Edition

Name: Home Assistant Voice Preview Edition
Brand: Nabu Casa
SKU: U0231
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The open source, privacy-focused voice assistant, built to work with Home Assistant

Home Assistant Voice Preview Edition is the open source, privacy-focused voice assistant built to seamlessly connect with Home Assistant, and preview the future of voice today. Its advanced audio processor and dual microphones allow it to hear your commands and control devices. Tactile controls, the injection-molded case and LED ring lend to its premium feel, allowing it to blend into the home.

Note: Voice Preview Edition requires Home Assistant to operate. Lower-performance Home Assistant hardware may result in slower speech processing. For optimal performance, we recommend offloading speech processing to Home Assistant Cloud if your hardware is less powerful. If you are experiencing issues please try to upgrade to the latest firmware by connecting your HA Voice PE to a computer via USB-C and using this tool "https://esphome.github.io/home-assistant-voice-pe/".

What's in the box?

Quick Start Guide
Warranty & Safety Information
Home Assistant Voice Preview Edition

Requirements

Home Assistant Hub (ameriDroid Smart Home, Home Assistant Yellow, Home Assistant Green, or custom install on a Single Board Computer or other computer)
USB-C Cable and Power Supply
WiFi Connection
Web Browser or Home Assistant App

Features

Built for Home Assistant: The first voice hardware designed by the team driving the development of Home Assistant, and built from the ground up to work with Home Assistant.
Preview the future of voice today: Home Assistant is rapidly advancing their open source, privacy-focused voice assistant for the home. Preview Edition was built to help more people participate in development and allow anyone to preview the future of voice today.
The easiest way to start with Assist: Just connect it to USB-C power (cable and power supply not included) and it will connect with Home Assistant via an intuitive installation wizard. No assembly required.
The private voice assistant: Pairing Voice Preview Edition with powerful Home Assistant hardware can allow it to run fully locally, or offload its audio processing to the privacy-focused Home Assistant Cloud. It also includes a hardware mute switch that physically cuts power to the microphones.
Language support: Assist aims to support more languages than other voice assistants, but this is still a work in progress, and Home Assistant needs your help. Check the supported languages in the Home Assistant’s Assist documentation.
Advanced Audio Processing: Dual microphones and the XMOS audio processor cuts through noise to hear your voice clearly.
Visual and audio feedback: The multicolored LED ring displays when it's listening, volume levels, and more. Get sensor readings, timers and other feedback via its speaker. Connect an external speaker for media playback via its 3.5mm headphone jack.
Physical controls: The rotary dial lets you control volume and LED brightness, while the multifunction button can trigger Assist or be customized in Home Assistant.
Blends into the home: Its small, unobtrusive design is injection-molded giving it a premium look, and its tactile controls give it a premium feel.
Expandable: Built on ESPHome, sensors can be added via the included Grove port.
Fully open and community-driven: Completely open software, firmware, and hardware lets you make it work the way you want. All backed by a dedicated community customizing and adding functionality.

Specifications

SoC	ESP32-S3 SoC with 16 MB of FLASH storage 8 MB octal PSRAM
Audio Processing	XMOS XU316 Featuring: Echo cancellation Stationary noise removal Auto gain control
Power/data	USB-C, 5 V DC, 2 A
Radios	2.4 GHz Wi-Fi Bluetooth 5.0 Low Energy
Audio output	3.5 mm (⅛”) stereo headphone jack Digital to analog converter (DAC): TI AIC3202 48 kHz sampling rate
Physical controls	Multipurpose button Rotary dial for volume and other input Mute switch that physically cuts power to the microphone
Microphone & speaker	Internal speaker Internal dual-mic array Hardware mute switch Dedicated I2S lines for audio in and out
Expandability	Grove port to connect sensors or other accessories Easy to open - no clips, only screws to access internals Exposed pads on PCB for modding
Software	ESPHome preloaded Fully open-source firmware for: ESP32 XMOS chip
Requirements	Home Assistant already configured on another device. For fully local speech processing, we recommend a Home Assistant system based on an Intel N100 or higher for the best experience. Lower-performance hardwaremay work but could lead to slower processing. If you experience delays, you have options: Consider using external hardware for voice processing, such as a more powerful server or a dedicated system. Offload speech processing to Home Assistant Cloud, which ensures smooth performance regardless of your hardware. This flexibility allows you to choose the setup that works best for your needs.
Language support	Check Home Assistant Assist documentation for an up-to-date list.
Environmental conditions for operation	Indoor use only O °C to 30 °C 32 °F to 86 °F Humidity: non-condensing Keep in dry, not excessively dusty environment as this can cause damage to the unit
Dimensions & weight	84x84x21 mm, 96 g \| with box: 94x94x30 mm, 120g
Material	Enclosure: Injection-molded Polycarbonate plastic Colors: White and Semi-transparent

If you select Condition "Other": This refurbished Home Assistant Voice PE Hardware is a fully tested, returned unit in perfect working condition (Updated to the current Firmware), complete with its original box. It may lack stickers, the getting started guide, warranty, and safety information, and could show minor dents or scratches (Ships from Kentucky within 1-3 business days).

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Awesome addition to Home Assistant.

Fast shipping, great product, easy to install. Recommend to anyone using Home Assistant, must needed addition to make user friendly.

Fast, private, local voice control for Home Assistant - and it works in Indonesian

Set this up on my own Home Assistant server the day it arrived. Onboarding was quick, it's auto-discovered, you pick a voice pipeline, and it's running in a couple of minutes.

What sold me is how fast the local stuff is. "Turn off the studio light," "activate the bedtime scene," "who's home," "what's the temperature outside," "what's on the family calendar today", all answered in about a second, no cloud round-trip, no account needed for the basics. The on-device "Okay Nabu" wake word has been reliable and the far-field mic picks me up from across the room.

Hardware feels solid for the price: good weight, a rotary volume dial, and an LED ring for feedback. 3.5mm output too. The whole point, being able to run STT/TTS locally and not depend on anyone's cloud is real.

I also wired mine to a larger conversational model for open-ended questions; those take longer, but that's a choice I made on my server, not a limit of the device. For the everyday "control my house and answer quick questions" job, it's quick and it just works. Non-English support (I use it in Indonesian via cloud STT/TTS) has been solid.

If you run Home Assistant and want a voice assistant that respects your privacy and doesn't feel like a science project, this is it. Very happy with it.

Surprisingly good

I had already built a similar Home Assistant Satellite device using a Raspberry Pi and an external speaker-microphone combination. However, I thought it would be good to check out this pre-built ESP32 version. It has a bunch of nice touches; for example a spinning LED light when the wake word is detected, a touch control for volume, and a neat mute switch. Despite its small size, the speaker is remarkably capable. It's not good for streaming music obviously, but it's fine for audio responses. The microphone sensitivty is a little limited, so I had to get used to getting quite close to the device before the wakeword was recognized. But despite this, I'm still willing to give it 5 stars because of the intuitive simplicity of operation, the ease of integration with Home Assistant and the price point.

Trueley Private Voice Assistant

This is a great product, and I am glad to support it so that hopefully the software gets better. I would rate the native nabu assist a 3, but if you run a local llm instance to give it a bit more power (I ran one on a RTX 3060 12GB) it works very well. AI is this worst it will ever be right now, and in a time where companies are increasingly doing everything they can to spy on us I can't recommend this local option enough. Plus Ameridroid is selling it for the cheapest I've found.

decent mic in a silent room

I wanted to love these mic pucks, but ugh.
It's fine as long as the room is silent, but if there's background noise forget it. Someone speaking quietly gets picked up, having a TV on anywhere near the thing makes it almost entirely useless

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