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Home Assistant Voice Preview Edition

Home Assistant Voice Preview Edition

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Refurbished: 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.

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

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

 

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Customer Reviews

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Jeffrey Shutrump
Slow

Does not work anywhere near the performance of alexa plus

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Fat Tony
Ameridroid is great. HAOS preview is trash.

I'm experiencing significant difficulties with the 2.4GHz connectivity of this device. While the click wheel is a nice feature, the performance is hampered by what appears to be an broken Arduino chip. Specifically, major issues connecting to the device when using a 2.4GHz Wi-Fi network configured for South Korea, even after flashing OpenWrt on a TP-Link Archer A6 v3.

Interestingly, my other 2.4GHz-dependent smart home devices connect without issue as i have set it to varoius other settings. This suggests a problem specific to this particular device's chip or the openwrt wireless networking authentication. I've attempted numerous configuration variations, but the device consistently fails to authenticate. This is quite frustrating, as I'm now resorting to using an older router i used when Obabma was president for this to connect.

The text-to-speech functionality is notably slow, making it impractical for daytime use. It only seems to function reliably during periods of low network activity. Due to these persistent issues, I'm considering developing a custom voice assistant solution using a Raspberry Pi Zero. This would allow me to use the South Korean Wi-Fi bans from my openwrt and massively improve download speeds.

Another area of concern is the lack of built-in Kodi integration in ESPHome. Unlike my phone's messenger app, which integrates seamlessly with Kodi, ESPHome requires manual commands to control media playback. While this workaround does function, it feels unnecessarily cumbersome and indicates a limited level of functionality out of the box.

Overall, I'm disappointed with the performance and limitations of this device and am exploring alternative solutions to meet my needs.

M
Mark

The speaker is a little bit tinny, but otherwise I'm really liking it.

R
Rob
Almost good

Must say all in all very happy with the preview edition. Struggles sometimes to understand probably through interference from the airconditioner . Also is there is sound on television or someone speaking it picks it up after a command is spoken and doesn’t execute the command. But yes, it’s not for nothing a preview edition but I must say guys at Hass “ very well done.” This can only become better

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Matthew
The best Vioce assistant for HA

This is the second one I purchased and have tried many other solutions but this is by far the best and easiest to setup in Home Assistant. It can unstand you from across the room without raising your voice at all. You will not be disapointed!

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