Does anyone have any reference, guide, post le tutorial for this “Hi-Fi systems” both cheap (like amazon echo dot 5th gen) and more sophisticated ones (like amazon echo studio + echo sub)? The idea is to use proportional or an upgrade as speakers (sonos era 100 / denon home 150; to replace echo dots 5th gen) and (Sonos era 300 + Sonos sub 4 / denon home 350 + denon subwoofer; to replace echo studio + echo sub) just as a reference, cause is not proportional.
I’m trying to “duplicate” or “copy” the behaviour of a typical Alexa setup (I made the mistake of buying just amazon devices, now I have trouble with the AI of Amazon that never update and It’s not “native” with a local implementation with HA). Anyways, I’m trying to configure other setup but (as I don’t have one) I don’t know how bad/well the sound of a home assistant voice preview edition (HAVPE) is. Is it worse than an echo 5th gen? If yes, how can I “fix that” keeping the same funcionality and user experience as Amazon devices have?
As I could find, the only way is using well integrated with home assistant (HA) speakers (sonos or denon for best quality) and use the HAPVPE just as a “microphone” (configuring “Alexa” as custom wake word from HA just to avoid training all my family to wake devices again). But I couldn’t realize how does that REALLY work (I mean for example with Alexa you have an integrated speaker, you can talk, and if you have music, it volumes down to hear your instructions, then give you the response, and lastly comes back the original volume; again without really “interrupt” the music, that behaviour should happen even without calling the assistant, for example, if I’m listening to music and someone give an “announcement” to my specific speaker, or to all speakers in the house, it should have the same behaviour turn down the volume say the announcement and turn up to original; also you can play audio in all speakers at the same time, the idea is to keep this ux, also without breaking the sonos/denon integrations like audio groups and other funcionalities that the speakers have themselves).
Has someone heard about any content here that can help me? I really want not to make a mistake (again) related on this cause it’s not cheap, but I need someone with this experience to help me. At least with speaker/mic brands integration and implementation (I don’t know if HAVPE mic + sonos or denon speakers is the best combination, or is it something better over there). Thanks for your help.
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