Home Assistant Voice P-E and ESPhome | Home Assistant | Page 1

agile knot Mar 7, 2025, 7:40 PM

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Hiya ! 👋
Not quite sure if this is the right place but I am currently onboarding my new Voice P-E and I'm at the step of ESPhome which is kinda unclear to me....
I am running H-A in a docker container locally and do not have any instance of ESPhome and I cannot really figure out where in the dock it mentions that and what (how) this should be setup...
Any hint ?

woven needle Mar 7, 2025, 8:46 PM

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what have you done so far?
are you following a guide somewhere?
you shouldnt need the esphome builder the vpe should talk straight to the stock esphome integration

agile knot Mar 7, 2025, 9:46 PM

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Which stock esphome integration ?
As said, I am running homeassistant in a docker container (without H-A OS and such...)
Is there any guide I can follow to spin an ESPHome container, connect it to H-A and then make vpe work ?

woven needle Mar 7, 2025, 9:56 PM

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you dont need the esphome container

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what is making you think that you do?

agile knot Mar 7, 2025, 9:56 PM

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right after connecting to the wifi, it is asking me to connect to ESPhome

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which, does not exists...

woven needle Mar 7, 2025, 9:57 PM

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can you share a screenshot of what its showing?

agile knot Mar 7, 2025, 9:57 PM

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sure, give me a sec

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any hint on how to reset so that I can go through the whole flow ?

woven needle Mar 7, 2025, 9:58 PM

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https://voice-pe.home-assistant.io/guides/reset/

Resetting the device – Home Assistant Voice Preview Edition

agile knot Mar 7, 2025, 10:02 PM

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woven needle Mar 7, 2025, 10:02 PM

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what happens if you hit ok?

agile knot Mar 7, 2025, 10:02 PM

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it is asking me for ESPhome url and port

woven needle Mar 7, 2025, 10:04 PM

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put in the ip address of the voicePE

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you might have to get this from your routers dhcp table

agile knot Mar 7, 2025, 10:05 PM

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works !! 🙂

woven needle Mar 7, 2025, 10:05 PM

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there we go 🙂

agile knot Mar 7, 2025, 10:05 PM

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hurray ! 🙂

woven needle Mar 7, 2025, 10:06 PM

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for some reason it didnt autofind it so it needed the ip
it was the esphome integration connecting to esphome on the voicePE

you were confusing this with the ESPHome builder addon/container which you do not need

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the nomenclature can get a bit confusing and make it hard to research.

usually it would automatically find it but with some network setups you need to add the ip

agile knot Mar 7, 2025, 10:07 PM

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yeah, the vpe and H-A are on two separates vlan

woven needle Mar 7, 2025, 10:07 PM

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yeah, that would do it

agile knot Mar 7, 2025, 10:08 PM

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which leads me to the next error where the vpe is unable to connect to HA

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firewall is open tho... is it trying some kind of discovery ?

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mdns ?

woven needle Mar 7, 2025, 10:09 PM

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HA connects to the voice pe to work, not the other way around

agile knot Mar 7, 2025, 10:09 PM

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hmmm funny

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shouldn't be an issue then ...

woven needle Mar 7, 2025, 10:12 PM

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having them on seperate vlans may cause some issues

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having home assistant on both iot and normal vlans is usually what people do i think

agile knot Mar 7, 2025, 10:14 PM

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got it... had to set up local network address in settings

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works like a charm now

woven needle Mar 7, 2025, 10:15 PM

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ah there we go, custom networking setups with vlans can sometimes lead to these types of shenanigans

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good luck anyhow, and happy automating 🙂

agile knot Mar 7, 2025, 10:29 PM

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other question if you are still around...
Since i will not use the cloud option, I am installing both whisper and piper
Should I use the same IP (vpe) in the setup of those two ?

woven needle Mar 7, 2025, 10:49 PM

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agile knot other question if you are still around... Since i will not use the cloud option,...

you connect to whisper and piper using the wyoming intergration and create a voice assistant pipeline to use them.
the ip you use to connect to whisper/piper is wherever you have them installed

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whisper/piper installs are servers that HA connects to.

so HA sits inbetween the VPE and whisper/piper and works its magic

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