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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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Tim

Already having a fun time with this thing. Easy set up and works really cool.

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Scott Schmaling
Good price, fast shipping

Very good price and fast shipping with order status updates.

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Scott
Meh

I bought it thinking it would do the job straight out of the box but no, it relies on another device to perform NLP so the moral of the story is make sure you read everything or you'll end up spending $60+ on a paper weight.

Dear Scott,

Thanks for your feedback on the HA Voice PE. We’re sorry it didn’t work as expected right out of the box. We get how frustrating that can be.
Most voice assistants, like Alexa or Google, rely on some kind of backend to process commands—usually cloud servers somewhere in the world. The HA Voice PE, as noted in its specs, is different. It lets you process voice commands locally with Home Assistant or offload them to another device you control. You can also use cloud services like ChatGPT, Home Assistant Cloud, or Google AI if you prefer. This setup keeps things flexible, private, and even lets you use LLMs to make it smarter while keeping your data private.

Feel free to reach out if you need guidance with using different methods like Piper, Whisper, or Ollama. We’ll be happy to help to make sure it’s not just sitting there as a paperweight.

Brandon

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robert anderson
Nice step in the right direction

This is my second voice pe and the device works great. The only downside is the lack of external media player ability aside from the 3.5mm jack that in a lot of instances is unviable for most situations. Hiwever i found a work around via yaml to stream the response to a media player but you will need to take control of it to do that.

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Brigham Bennett
Fantastic Work in Progress

Its great! Software is obviously still a work in progress but hardware it great for a Preview Edition!

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