Intel NUC7i5BNK Built in Microphone and IR receiver. | Home Assistant | Page 1

sly horizon Jul 18, 2025, 5:44 PM

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I have tried searching on how to utilize the built in microphones on the Intel NUC7i5 but I am unable to see anything referencing it. How would I use this with Voice Assistant instead of having to use another device? Is an SSL cert required for my browser on my local machine to utilize the mic on the NUC?
I have an assist pipeline running to a self hosted Ollama instance and assist works great, depending on the model I choose, but I am struggling with the microphone aspect.

Is there a way to utilize the built in IR receiver on the Intel NUC? What integrations would be required? Also, why is there no native way to use the 3.5mm jack with Home Assistant? Shouldn't there be a way to pass devices like this through to the OS?

sly horizon Jul 23, 2025, 1:56 PM

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sly horizon Jul 27, 2025, 2:52 AM

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sly horizon Sep 12, 2025, 1:59 PM

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sly horizon Sep 16, 2025, 5:29 PM

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sly horizon Oct 20, 2025, 2:14 PM

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tepid night Oct 20, 2025, 2:36 PM

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sly horizon I have tried searching on how to utilize the built in microphones on the Intel N...

what type of install do you have?

sly horizon Oct 20, 2025, 2:36 PM

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HAOS on the NUC

tepid night Oct 20, 2025, 2:39 PM

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there is an addon called "Assist Microphone" that you could try

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i am not totally sure how it works but its a palce to start

sly horizon Oct 20, 2025, 2:42 PM

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I have it but I think there is something I am missing since the browser cant use the mic without a TLS cert?

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Even that is confusing because shouldn't a wake word work?

tepid night Oct 20, 2025, 3:01 PM

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sly horizon I have it but I think there is something I am missing since the browser cant use...

you cannot use the device on the server from the webui. if your trying to use a microphone on the browser then its trying to use the one on the machine the browser is running on. however browser security does not allow pages to access them unless they are https

sly horizon Oct 20, 2025, 3:02 PM

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Ok great, that makes sense. How do I use the built in microphone array on the NUC?

tepid night Oct 20, 2025, 3:06 PM

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sly horizon Even that is confusing because shouldn't a wake word work?

i would say that in general... you don't most people don't make use of microphone/speaker plugged into their server

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that's not to say that its impossible but doing directly from HAOS might be a bit tricky

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how much ram does your nuc have?

sly horizon Oct 20, 2025, 3:09 PM

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That is exactly why I made this post. This should be possible and the OS should allow passthrough of devices on the host.

What is the relevance of ram to this?

tepid night Oct 20, 2025, 3:10 PM

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sly horizon That is exactly why I made this post. This should be possible and the OS should ...

because I have a suggestion but if you have limited ram then it wont work

sly horizon Oct 20, 2025, 5:06 PM

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I got it working. For some reason the device was muted. In the CLI I had to assign the mic array as default input device and un mute it with a volume of 100. The 3.5mm headphone/mic combo jack and the built in microphone array on the NUC are passed through to the OS as the same device. SO while it was muted, I also got no audio output.

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