Pocket Assistant
I always thought that this pocket watch style hardware from Waveshare was really cool, and wondered why no one had done much with it. Well now I know. It was really challenging to get Voice Assistant and Music Assistant working reliably. While I was at it, I built a custom Music Assistant back-end, allowing full library browsing and speaker control. Area controls coming in a future release.
Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKwvTn31XF8
GitHub Repository: https://github.com/slampton/esphome-pocket-assistant
Hardware: https://docs.waveshare.com/ESP32-S3-Touch-AMOLED-1.75C
Voice Pipeline FYI: Nabu Casa STT and TTS, with Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite.
u/LamptonLabs — 5 days ago