HA Voice PE ESPHome setup

[tranquil stump]

Hello, I am new to HA and ESPHome, I have both running in containers on Docker.
I tried setting up the Voice PE, after connecting to the wifi it asked to set up ESPHome.
In every tutorial that I watched it automatically finds the ESPHome thing but for me it's asking to enter the connection settings, I entered the ip of the pc where the docker container is running but it's not working. I do get the ESPHome Dashboard in my browser with the ip and port 6052 so that should be correct, right?
Does anybody know the solution? Thank you in advance!

[latent steppe]

do you intend to modify the firmware on the voicePE? if not then you do not need the esphome builder tool.

setting up the VPE with the esphome integration has nothing to do with using the esphome builder tool. you point the integration at the device. although unless you have some kind of fancy network setup it should automatically find it

[tranquil stump]

Oh okay like that, yeah it's on an enterprise network with a bunch of firewalls and stuff I don't know. Thanks for the info, I will look into it further

[tranquil stump]

Do you happen to know what part of the network could be blocking it? Or what should be enabled?

[latent steppe]

the HA server needs to be able to connect to the VPE AND the VPE needs to be able to connect to the HA Server

even with stuff allowed you may have to manually connect to it by ip as autodetect may not work with elaborate setups

[tranquil stump]

I enabled the hotspot of the pc where Docker with HA is running, using the ip I was able to connect the VPE but setting up the voice assistant is not working, I put the Home Assistant URL like they suggested in the help me but it still doesn't work

[latent steppe]

its having trouble connecting to the url that HA thinks it is at, is your HA docker container using "host" networking?

[tranquil stump]

No it's using
ports: - 8123:8123

My phone it connected to the same hotspot and I get the login screen when entering the ip and port in the browser

[latent steppe]

settings - system - network
the home assistant URL section.
the url there for local network needs to be a URL that works. this url is what is used to generate the url stream that it tells the VPE to run

if you are using an unsupported docker network config then you may have to manually adjust this

if your not using host networking it will likely be trying to use the internal docker network ip which obviously wont work from other devices.

[tranquil stump]

So it's different from the normal HA URL to get the Dashboard and stuff?

[latent steppe]

it shouldn't be.

when HA wants the VPE to connect to it to stream audio from it: it generates a url to give to the VPE over the API and if HA doesnt know its own base URL correctly the generates URL for the audio stream will be wrong.

if your not using the supported network mode then HA is unable to work out what it should be so you will need to manually set it.

[tranquil stump]

This part, right? I entered the http, ip and port of HA that works when using the browser on a phone on the same network so it should work for the VPE too, no?

[latent steppe]

yeah so it should look like
http://x.x.x.x:8123

[tranquil stump]

That's what I put

[latent steppe]

you may have to restart home assistant for chage to take effect, then try running the VPE unboarding again

[tranquil stump]

Okay, I'll try that

[tranquil stump]

I think it worked because now I have to figure out how to do the local voice processing since it's running in Dockers so I can't use the addons

Thank you so much for your help Michael!

[latent steppe]

you can use whisper/piper containers that support wyoming protocol and connect them using the wyoming integration

[tranquil stump]

Thanks, I'll take a look!

[tranquil stump]

So I guess it's these 2 but how do I find the docker compose files?
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[latent steppe]

it has the docker run command on the repo. you can use that to write a compose file or use a tool like https://www.composerize.com/

it should be noted that: I don't think that those containers do GPU acceleration. if you want to add that then you may have to use other images

[tranquil stump]

It's running on an AMD mini pc with Radeon 780M integrated graphics so I guess it's not needed?