wilbowes/EchoMuse
Alexa replacement and controller for Echo Dot 2nd Generation device.
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Where it stands
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5 releases in the last 90 days, the latest 8 days ago, with 29 contributors on GitHub.
Use Cases & Benefits
- Replaces Alexa firmware on Echo Dot 2nd Gen with a local, open-source voice assistant integrated into Home Assistant.
- Enables fully local voice control and media playback without cloud dependency, enhancing privacy and customization.
- Use for converting Echo Dot 2nd Gen devices into privacy-focused, local voice assistants for smart home control.
- Use for deploying multi-room voice assistant setups with synchronized responses and advanced audio features.
- Use for integrating Echo Dot sensors and buttons into Home Assistant for custom automations and presence detection.
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License
MIT
Permissive: commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed with attribution.
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- README: present
- Contributing guide: present
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From the README
Give your Amazon Echo Dot 2nd Generation a second life as a fully local, open-source voice assistant and media player for Home Assistant.
EchoMuse replaces the Alexa firmware with a lightweight Go server and pairs it with a Python controller that presents each Dot to Home Assistant as a native ESPHome voice satellite — no cloud, no custom HA integration to install. Say your wake word, talk to Assist, hear the answer through the Dot's speaker. The hardware you already own ($10 on the second-hand market) does the rest.
The 7-mic array, LED ring, buttons, and speaker are all driven natively: onset-ratio beamforming, +24dB pre-truncation mic gain (the stock capture path throws away most of the signal), device-local LED animations, mute that's genuinely hardware (ADC off, red ring, button LED).
The device is deliberately dumb: it captures, beamforms, and streams audio continuously, and plays what it's sent. Everything that can drift or misjudge — wake scoring, endpointing, noise suppression, EQ, arbitration — lives on the controller where it can be observed and updated fleet-wide. (The one exception is opt-in and observational: the Echo can also score the wake word locally and report what it would have detected, which is how we're measuring whether that belongs on the device at all.) The full tour is in docs/voice-pipeline.md.
Daily snapshots
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+593 stars over 46 days across 6 snapshot days; best day +15 on Oct 5.
Forks
109+60
Open issues
163+40
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