Add media player to echo voice assistant

[itsme9]

Hi, if possible could a media player entity be added to the atom echo voice assistant config
Thanks

[riesi77]

Would be a great improvement and I guess appreciated by many people.

[gigawebs]

This would be very helpful, would love to see this.

[pdsccode]

Chiming in here as well. Not only for the echo but for the use in conjunction with esp-idf framework in general. This would enable us to build our own voice assistant and use the same device as target for announcements (and music as well with the right speakers).

All about sustainability 😉

[mehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh]

YES PLEASE!!!!

[ikocijan]

This would be a great addition. My use case is that I would use the atom echo as a speaker for my alarm. I bought the device thinking it's both a speaker and a voice assistant, but I was surprised that it's not recognized as a media player.

[kksligh]

agreed

[morpheus8888]

please

[jesserockz]

This cannot be done until there is a media player that works on esp-idf.

I am going to close this issue as there is no planned timeline for this and that needs to be done before adding to these firmwares is even considered.

[riesi77]

@jesserockz : Is this the correct feature request for getting a media player on esp-idf? esphome/feature-requests#1864?

[RaceNJason]

@jesserockz - if you are going to close this issue, as riesi77 put it...where should we place our feature request for getting a media player on esp-idf then? Even if there is no planned timeline, this issue shouldn't be closed unless there is an alternative for requesting this feature. I don't use GitHub much so I'm not sure if there is a specific place to do feature requests (so please don't burn me if there is) and for the moment...this is the only thread I've seen relating to this issue and to the ESPHome GitHub repository.

What I do know about the M5Stack Echo is that it obviously supports I2S speaker and microphone already and that HA can send TTS to it already. No one here seems to actually want a 'media player' per say to play music from their echo (if they did, that would be sad). What everyone really wants is to be able to do speech notifications or sounds (like doorbells and such). Especially since what is the point of having both a voice assistant and a separate speaker when they should be able to do it in one unit. Maybe HA needs another device type like just a basic speaker which can be linked to TTS and sound notifications instead of full blown media players (and that could be added to the M5Stack Echo). Anyway, off subject...so if someone can provide a link to the proper channel so future people visiting this page will have a place to go and add their vote that would be great. Or, somehow reopen this issue even if it is on the back burner with no timeline. At least ESPHome developers will know how many people want to have this feature added. I would think that is more important than closing an issue just because there isn't any current plan for a feature like this...