This looks like a viable competitor to the recently announced HA Voice Preview hardware. Looks like it’s sold out at this point but there will be more coming. More microphones, presence detection and a builtin amplifier to run fairly substantial speakers.
https://futureproofhomes.net/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=product_shelf
Sort of confused on what this “is” exactly. It’s trying to be too many things at once. It’s an ESP board with a microphone and speaker output, but also has an mmwave sensor in a hat for a carrier board…alright?
This isn’t the format of want any of those things in, honestly. A much smaller ESP32 nano can do the voice, a different device for streaming, and dedicated sensors for mmwave make WAY more sense.
A unit in a main area that can do presence sensing and has good audio IO is something I would happily buy. The board is separate so you can use an ESP32 or a rPi.
Ah, that wasn’t super clear to me. So GPIO hate on an ESP32 carrier makes more sense. Since mmwave is directional, the sensor placement on this was confusing as hell to use as an RPi hat, but 🤷
Well, that’s just like, your opinion man.
Right‽ Gotta love when people think that their opinion is the only one that matters.
Dude is making one board that’ll work for as many situations as possible and letting you decide what you want to do with it (and it’s right there in the name - future proof!), but somehow that is honestly too much.
For myself, I like having options.
Also, the official HA hardware also has an expansion port on it, think this guy complained about having that on there as being too much?
Personally I think the mm wave sensor they chose is kinda junky. But that doesn’t bother me because nobody is forcing me to add it on.