ESPHome WITHOUT Home Assistant

[@lostacolyte]

Is it possible to perform actions with just the command promt on windows? you're using a local host MQTT. I.e Tell esphome to activate a bluetooth device Via string or condition?

[@GrandpasPlace]

Thank you, this is what I was looking for. As to use, I have an 8 billion parameter LLM running on a local machine. The idea is to use the ESP32-S3-BOX-3 to capture the voice input, send it to an MQTT server that my STT can monitor and convert it to Txt, then the LLM picks up the Txt and formulates a response. This would then go to the TTS server to convert to speech which is passed back to the ESP32-S3-BOX-3 to be played out the speaker. I was hoping that ESPHome could be used as it allows for easy setup and management. I just did not need a full home assistant for this. lol

[@lets-automate]

That's great to hear! I need to get back to playing with the BOX 3 more. An 8B model is a good choice so that it can fit into a GPU's VRAM and run nice and fast 👍

[@piotrpaczek2306]

whats going on? title says "without home assistant" but you're using home assistatnt to config esp home

[@lets-automate]

All of the stuff up to about 7:01 is for stand alone ESPHome. The test device I have showing "voice box3 study" can be configured with yaml in there are that's all you need. I just switched to my HA production version as I have more devices in there.

[@marcus3d]

10:43 Why is there duplicate on/off? No internal debounce?

[@lets-automate]

I think I actually pressed the button a few times. If you look at my example yaml there is a delayed_off, which will act as a debounce. I set it at 10ms by the look of it, could perhaps be slightly higher.

[@uSlackr]

I am looking to run the esphome compiler on my windows machine and struggling to get it working. Need this because I have a ton of devices and the HA green is just not up to it. Topic for a future video, maybe??

[@lets-automate]

Presumably you've followed this doc and it's not working? esphome.io/guides/installing_esphome It might be to do with your Python version if you have issues. Otherwise perhaps create a Linux VM on your PC. Another option might be to try WSL2 on Windows, but that can take a bit of effort to setup from what I remember.