Home Assistant FAQ's and Solutions

a list of typed up answered to questions that have or are likely to come upmore than once.

Hardware Choice for Home Assistant

Server Hardware Choice - https://gist.github.com/MichaelMKKelly/7a7bfed8610491a2c93acb44a2400866

USB Zigbee adaptor - https://www.home-assistant.io/connectzbt1/

voice satellite - https://www.home-assistant.io/voice-pe/

cheap voice satellite for leaning and development - https://shop.m5stack.com/products/atom-echo-smart-speaker-dev-kit

HAOS 15 Broke my Install

Check this out - https://gist.github.com/MichaelMKKelly/fd9037d7fb9b6f203d7c8076ab37c4c5

2025.5 Broke LocalTuya

Check this out - https://gist.github.com/MichaelMKKelly/a236dba1219579789a11295793444112

I want to automate something music related

Use Music Assistant - https://www.music-assistant.io/

Voice PE With Speaker

See a setup i use here - https://gist.github.com/MichaelMKKelly/5033dec56c5ab6ee6b7db52f690b84e0

M5Stack Atom Echo as voice assistant

Before you ask, ensure you are on the latest version of the voice assistant firmware.

New devices are still coming with older firmware configuration which does not update correctly and does not support everything the new config does

Install by plugging into PC and visiting this site - https://esphome.io/projects/ then you can select "voice assistant" and the atom echo, followed by connecting to and flashing the device

I want to output the voice assistant from my atom echo to another media player in home assistant

guide here - https://gist.github.com/MichaelMKKelly/79b6f5fcb85f424cb510dc4e3f841aff

I want to disable the wake word and instead use the button to activate voice assistant on my atom echo

guide here - https://gist.github.com/MichaelMKKelly/0a79208d123ff2bf82ae40ef206c8987

I want to delay the Wakeword detection on my atom echo so other devices have priority

guide here - https://gist.github.com/MichaelMKKelly/b547586a41b925f57bba3617a4740181

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