“For the price, it is worth it. It detects the wake word reliably, but it can sometimes struggle to hear what you are requesting of it.
The set up can be a little complex, and requires connecting to a PC/Laptop that has a Chromium based browser installed to install the initial firmware”
“It is an easy install in home assistant via the esphome ready made projects page, the internal speaker is very quiet maybe a future version could have a external sound port/socket of some description, you can get around this by sending the audio to another device but it's not straight forward, but it works as described and fun to use.”
“I was hoping, maybe naively, that this could be used as a smart speaker for Home Assistant. The speaker is too quiet, however, and the microphone doesn't hear me very well from more than a few feet away. I wish it had a louder speaker and/or a 3.5mm plug for external speakers.
All in all I’m satisfied with the device, just set your expectations accordingly.”
“Bought this to use with my Home Assistant set up - the device feels robust and was easy to set up out of the box, with the help of some video guides on YouTube. Microphone appears to have good sensitivity, but it's worth bearing in mind that the speaker is very quiet - it can really only be used for testing responses to the spoken inputs.”
“As far as a device for testing its pretty good, used it to test home assistant voice assist and i was pleasantly surprised.
Good for testing but wont make it from dev to live as the speaker is quite quiet”
