Voice PE External Speaker

[arctic lotus]

I know there is an 3,5mm Audio Jack for External Speakers, but would it be Possible by Code in ESPhome or optional in Future FW Version to select an HA Mediaplayer Entity as Speaker?

In my Livingroom I would Like to use my Sonos (IKEA Symfonsik) as Speaker (my Google Home and Amazon Alexa can do this with only an Setting)

[finite harness]

Slacker Labs promises to release a video describing how to do this soon.
https://youtu.be/KS0NvdThHGY?t=588

[onyx charm]

Might even be a WTH candidate on the community forums

[stone fossil]

You can do it yourself. You'll have to take control of the device, but it's doable.

[willow fjord]

Isn't it the same method as used by The Smarthome Junkie in this video? https://youtu.be/o3yZWD_sFIE?si=znPXu7ikAR4ZRgg6

[arctic lotus]

Funny issue 😅 this Happens when you have Google, Alexa and NABU

[arctic lotus]

Posted as Feature requests in Community Forum yesterday

[stone fossil]

I'm testing some partial solution for Koala Satellite. While it would be great to have choice for media player, we'll have to wait for this... So I decided to do following:

1. Expose TTS file URL from satellite as sensor in HA.
2. Use automation to play this FLAC URL on player I wish.
3. Mute satellite media player.

There's 2 disadvantages:

• No "ding" sounds on wake word, since it's muted...
• cannot use action "assist_satellite.announce" (same reason, player is muted, and this action doesn't trigger URL sensor update).

[haughty yoke]

Another disadvantage to keep in mind is that AEC won't really do much with that config

[stone fossil]

True. Well, internal media player will be playing at the same time, so probably algorithm will count it?