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  • Esparagus Audio Brick Voice Assist

    Esparagus Audio Brick Voice Assist

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    This is a copy of a post prepared for the Esparagus Audio Brick Crowd Supply campaign. One of the reasons to make an ESP32-S3 version of the board is the more advanced architecture of that chip, which allows for on-chip wake word detection. Similar to the Home Assistant Home device, the Esparagus Audio Brick can…

  • Audio Brick Dual DAC prototype work

    Audio Brick Dual DAC prototype work

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    One of the great features of ESPHome is its modularity. Idea that popped up some time ago – can I make an ESP32 board with two DACs, similar to Louder Raspberry Hat 2X? Hardware is not the issue, but software that would work right out of the box with two I2C-controlled DACs is not something…

  • Voice-Assist + Sendspin ESPHome configs

    Voice-Assist + Sendspin ESPHome configs

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    A person from the community reached out recently asking if it is possible to add Sendspin configuration for voice-assist config. Esparagus Echo, or any other ESP32-S3 board that supports voice-assist. After some poking, it turned out that it is possible, and two experimental features work surprisingly well together. Wake-word detection works, TTS works, and audio…

  • Esparagus ESPHome Integration

    Esparagus ESPHome Integration

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    This is a copy of a post prepared for the Esparagus Audio Brick Crowd Supply campaign. Introduction The Esparagus Audio Brick was created specifically with the smart home in mind, and although there are a number of alternatives on the market, I think the most popular one is Home Assistant. And the most popular (and easy)…

  • Updated Sendspin configs for ESP32 devices

    Updated Sendspin configs for ESP32 devices

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    Small update on the ESPHome configs for Sendspin media players. Until now, existing configs worked relatively well on the ESP32-S3-based devices – I guess Sendspin developers used them mainly, so it was working quite well from the start, and recent releases had nothing to wish for – they just work flawlessly. It was a different…

  • Start of sales on Lectronz

    Start of sales on Lectronz

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    Due to the Tindie outage, I’m moving my shop to Lectronz. I’m planning to open sales at Sonocotta.com as well (where I had to spend 2 days moving everything to new hosting), but it would take some time to configure everything from scratch and do a full stock revision. Most of the ESP32 boards are…

  • Sendspin updated configs

    Sendspin updated configs

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    Hey folks. I updated sendspin configs for the Sonocotta boards to use the latest stable code in this PR. Hope that might help with testing it. Updated configs are for Esparagus boards, ESP32 audio boards, and Esparagus echo.  My own observations: S3-based boards work really smoothly, really nothing to complain about. Classic ESP32 is quite…