ESPHome 2023.5.0 - 17th May 2023

Speaker Core

I2S Speaker

MLX90614

MAX6956 I/O expander - I²C Bus

Speaker Core

I2S Speaker

MLX90614

MAX6956 I/O expander - I²C Bus

PCA6416A I/O Expander

HYT271

GP8403

ESP32 RMT LED Strip

PCA6416A I/O Expander

HYT271

GP8403

ESP32 RMT LED Strip

Speakers!!!

Following on from last months release adding microphones, this release adds speaker support!

These new changes allows the Voice Assistant to request the raw audio stream response from Home Assistant to playback without using a full Media Player Components. This has much lower latency and allows for a much more responsive voice assistant experience.

More Microphones

This release also adds a bit more configuration for the i2s_audio microphone components. There is a breaking-change that requires new configuration fields to be added in YAML. See the microphone documentation for the configuration details, but below is a small example for the M5Stack Atom Echo.

# Old
microphone:
  platform: i2s_audio
  i2s_din_pin: GPIO23
  id: my_microphone

# New
microphone:
  platform: i2s_audio
  i2s_din_pin: GPIO23
  adc_type: external
  pdm: false

Release 2023.5.1 - May 18

Release 2023.5.2 - May 22

Release 2023.5.3 - May 22

Release 2023.5.4 - May 24

Release 2023.5.5 - May 29

Full list of changes

New Components

Breaking Changes

Beta Changes

All changes

Past Changelogs