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  • thepianistfroggollum@lemmynsfw.comtohomeassistant@lemmy.world*Permanently Deleted*
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    9 months ago

    One issue you’ll run into is that HA can’t stream music over Bluetooth (or couldn’t a few months ago), so you will have to go with a wifi speaker or preamp, or a separate server to stream the audio to a Bluetooth speaker. Or find a python package that you can incorporate into HA through the app daemon add on, or a docker image to run as an add on.

    You can probably use HA to do the voice processing and send the command to the streaming server, but I haven’t played with the voice feature enough to tell you how much of a pita it would be to set it up to reliably be able to decipher a band, album, or song from a voice command. I do know that it’s a hassle to do it in rhasspy (you have to specify each option, iirc).

    Once you do get it set up, you can probably set up a custom media player entity to control playback.

    I’ve been checking on native HA Bluetooth streaming on a regular basis, because I want to design a whole home audio system that will follow me from room to room.











  • Yeah, and there are plenty for $100-150 with lower specs that might be suitable. I haven’t cracked mine open yet, but there’s a data connector that they advertise for a 2.5" ssd, as well as an included m.2 ssd. But even if you just got a usb-c drive enclosure it would be faster than a pi.

    Pis are great for small applications, so if your goal is just to have drive failure tolerance, it would work. If you want to run something like plex off of the data there you’ll have a bad time.

    Personally, I’d just buy a synology 2-3 drive box and call it good. I love my 5x5 setup, and a lot of my local services run off it in docker containers.