Speaker for Home Assistant Voice

[toxic palm]

Is it any suggestions for what speaker to buy for a Home Asistant Voice? I was told my Google Home Max had aux, bout could not find one.

If Alexa, siri or even Google home got one with aux that doesnt need to be triggered (that it just work when getting signal on aux it would be great)

If not, please uggest something stable, small, but good sound (with good sound I mean on par with google home, not extreme audio). NO RGB!

Any suggesteions?

I was thinking soemthing like this https://thetechnologyman.com/anker-soundcore-2-bluetooth-speaker-review-is-this-the-best-budget-portable-speaker/ but not sure if if will work without having to turn it on (if its connected). I also got one of this https://raspiaudio.com/product/esp-muse-luxe/ - but from what I heard they got horrible apeakers?

So what do you suggest?

[sweet sage]

I have a setup with the "soundcore mini" in aux input mode which works well. so I imagine that the "soundcore 2" would work fine too.
some details of my setup here - https://gist.github.com/MichaelMKKelly/5033dec56c5ab6ee6b7db52f690b84e0

[toxic palm]

Interessting. what does the "isolator" do?

[sweet sage]

its in the post. it prevents a ground loop which can be an issue if your using the same power supply for both devices.

[toxic palm]

Still a bit strange. If I click the center button and not use wake word, my google speaker respond, but not with wake word. is it possible to let my google speaker respond by default without aux?

[sweet sage]

some llms sometimes respond on the wrong device. its not really intended and can be overcome with prompt adjustments.
its not possible (currently) to have the output redirected to a different device. although this can sort of be done with customisation of the firmware it is not officially supported

[toxic palm]

strange. I almost hoped I could just redirect the reponse directly to the other speaker haha

[sweet sage]

no, the recommended way to do that is by using the 3.5mm out

[toxic palm]

yeah I know

[main ruin]

Been wanting to do this myself @toxic palm - https://youtu.be/hWPqMR4tFjM?https://youtu.be/hWPqMR4tFjM=undefined