[Coming soon]
Turn ESPHome Voice Assistant devices into a natural voice interface for Homey. Speak normally to get quick answers and control lights, climate, music, scenes and more. Real-time responsiveness powered by OpenAI’s Realtime API makes everyday tasks feel instant and effortless.
Will at launch support both the Home Assistant Voice Preview Edition as well as Xiaozhi AI devices (running RealDeco’s firmware)
I am waiting, hopefully it will be soon I’m also testing homey-Homeassistant-esp home and my Synology nas I have 4 servers working now.
Please let me know if you know how.
A test version is now available:
Instructions on how to setup can be found here: Readme
Please let me know how testing goes 
Working like a charm. I will make a demonstration with it on Researcher Night.
Hi @Arve_Bjornerud,
ist this app still under active development or is it abandoned?
Does anybody use it and what are the experiences with it?
After all the troubles with all the Amazon Alexa integrations in the last weeks I will definitely switch to Home Assistant Voice PE. But I do not want to do the Homey integration based on a “dead” app.
Any advice for me?
Ehhh relax a bit, it’s been only 2 months since release. It’s not Widows software needing updates every day.
I do however get your concerns,
but that’s a bit useless, isn’t it?
Imagine the app is not “dead”, so you buy your stuff and install everything.
And then, the next day life happens to the dev and he/she has to stop maintaining it.
You seem to forget apps keep running, even when “dead”, to use your unpleasant words.
Hi. It’s not dead, i basically thought nobody was interested in this project so I just put it on hold. But now I’ll get back into it.
First of all, I want to thank the developer Arve_Bjornerud, who like most developers uses their skill, abilities, and time to give us new features and compatibility for our Homey.
I came across this project by chance, and it seems very interesting.
Hi all,
I really didn´t mean to insult @Arve_Bjornerud or anybody else. - So pls take my apologies. This is a great project and it is well alive 
Just dropping a hint on all the currently desperate Amazon Alexa/Echo threads should create some interest in this alternative, I imagine.
I will try this later this week.
Can it does the same as when connected to Home Assistant?
Is this app still active? I’m trying to connect a home assistent voice preview edition speaker to homey following the installation notes from the github site but my speaker continues to flash blue and is not found by homey. Any advice how to proceed?
Hey. Sorry I’ve been busy with life, so there hasn’t been any development on this for a long time. I’m planning to get back to this. As i see that having this type of connection with homey would be real useful. Basically you can just ask homey to do something for you without pulling out your phone. Just in the same way as Google Nest, Alexa and so on. I had a lot of issues with the OpenAI API last i worked on this. But at that point the API was new and in Beta, perhaps it’s a bit more reliable now. I’ll see if i can find some time to look at this again.
@Per-Erik_Sundberg What firmware have you flashed on the PE? Can you ping the PE on the static IP that you set? Does Homey find the PE on your network?
Hi @Arve_Bjornerud,
Thank you for the work you are doing on this app, it looks fantastic!
I have installed the latest stable version (v26.4.0) on the PE and set a static IP.
I can ping the PE, but when I try to add the PE to homey I get the message “No new units found”. The PE is flashing blue after startup.
I just noticed that when I try to add the PE and get the message “No new units found”, the PE change from flashing blue to flashing red.
Hmm.. Then Homey is finding the PE on your network, but is having some issue finalizing the connection. Basically there is no easy way to check if the device it found on the network is an voice enabled device. So Homey has to “ask” the device what its capable of doing. If it doesn’t support the stuff it needs it’s rejected and you get a “No new unit found”. There might be a change in the PE firmware. I’ll try updating mine and see what happens.
I would like to stay (if not local then rather) european. - Would it be feasible to make Mistral available as an alternative AI?
Can it be used as a local TTS device?
Sorry I thought I was in the Dutch forum. Likewise, why not use Ollama or other open source, since OpenAI and all other parties want to recoup their money, something that will never happen, but so be it.
By the way, I don’t begrudge those idiotic Americans our money from Europe!
I would really appreciate it if Ollama were used, because I am not planning to pay for the use of APIs.
Thank you again for all the effort being put in.
Could you pls post in english?
