WiFi Speaker, if any?

[fathom gazelle]

I'm looking for Wi-Fi speakers, if they exist. Not a smart speaker but simply a speaker that can connect via Wi-Fi to receive audio files or a stream for playback.

The use case here is to have a light switch trigger a request to play an audio file through the speaker. Or am I better off using a Raspberry Pi and connecting a speaker to it to do this?

[mossy token]

there isn't really anything off the shelf. using a pi and a speaker is not an awful option. but something esp32 based might be a better solution if your going custom.

you could use a "ReSpeaker Lite" board. and attach a speaker to that. and use it as an ESPHome device. it also has microphones so you could use it as a voice assistant if you wanted to but theres nothing stopping you muting the mics and just using it for output.

it will interact with home assistant/music assistant well

[graceful comet]

This is "off the shelf" and seems to meet the described use case:
https://a.co/d/dQFD65r

I have one of these 🙂

You can also build your own:
https://youtu.be/At8PDQ3g7FQ?si=s58VB9BiRdEmKRdN

[cedar fractal]

You can get slightly fancier stereo DACs for very little money too. But yeah, this is the most budget way I see to get a wifi speaker with great HA support

Doubly useful if you already have some reasonable quality dumb speakers you may want to recycle