ygelfand/echolocal
Turn an Amazon Echo Dot or Echo Show into a fully local Home Assistant voice satellite, media player, display and Bluetooth proxy. No Amazon, no cloud.
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Where it stands
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5 releases in the last 90 days, the latest 2 days ago, with 7 contributors on GitHub.
Use Cases & Benefits
- Transforms Amazon Echo Dot or Echo Show devices into fully local Home Assistant voice satellites, media players, displays, and Bluetooth proxies without using Amazon cloud services.
- Enables privacy-focused, cloud-free smart home voice control and media playback by integrating directly with Home Assistant via a native ESPHome API.
- Use for creating a local voice assistant and media player setup that respects user privacy by avoiding cloud dependencies.
- Use for extending Home Assistant's Bluetooth capabilities through a Bluetooth proxy on Echo devices for enhanced smart home integrations.
- Use for deploying interactive dashboards and multimedia displays on Echo Show devices with customizable visuals and Home Assistant controls.
Should you depend on it?
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License
MIT
Permissive: commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed with attribution.
Community files
- README: present
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From the README
Turn an Amazon Echo Dot or Echo Show into a local Home Assistant voice satellite, speaker and display.
A pure-Go replacement for Amazon's services. It speaks the ESPHome native API, so Home Assistant discovers it the way it discovers any ESPHome device.
Daily snapshots
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+67 stars over 13 days across 3 snapshot days; best day +16 on Oct 19.
Forks
30+7
Open issues
38-2
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