Thanks to Smart Home Junkie’s video (invidious link), I had my Atom Echos as voice recognition boxes with all audio output redirected to a media player of my choice (because the audio on the Echo is super quiet).

Whenever ESPHome updated, I updated my Echos to get the recent ESPHome updates, and then reinstalled the custom yaml for audio redirection.

However, with ESPHome’s recent 2024.6.4 update, trying to install the yaml triggers errors that don’t seem to make sense. For example, here’s a section of the yaml:

microphone:
  - platform: i2s_audio
    id: echo_microphone_kitchen
    i2s_din_pin: GPIO23
    adc_type: external
    pdm: true

speaker:
  - platform: i2s_audio
    id: echo_speaker_kitchen
    i2s_dout_pin: GPIO21
    dac_type: external
    mode: mono

voice_assistant:
  id: va
  microphone: echo_microphone_kitchen
  speaker: echo_speaker_kitchen
  noise_suppression_level: 2
  auto_gain: 31dBFS
  volume_multiplier: 2.0
  vad_threshold: 3
  on_listening:
    - light.turn_on:
        id: led
        blue: 100%
        red: 0%
        green: 0%
        effect: "Slow Pulse"
  on_stt_vad_end:
    - light.turn_on:
        id: led
        blue: 100%
        red: 0%
        green: 0%
        effect: "Fast Pulse"
  on_tts_start:
    - light.turn_on:
        id: led
        blue: 100%
        red: 0%
        green: 0%
        brightness: 100%
        effect: none
  on_tts_end:
    - homeassistant.service:
        service: media_player.play_media
        data:
          entity_id: media_player.${media_player}
          media_content_id: !lambda 'return x;'
          media_content_type: music
          announce: "false"
  on_end:
    - delay: 100ms
    - wait_until:
        not:
          speaker.is_playing:
    - script.execute: reset_led
  on_error:
    - light.turn_on:
        id: led
        red: 100%
        green: 0%
        blue: 0%
        brightness: 100%
        effect: none
    - delay: 1s
    - script.execute: reset_led
  on_client_connected:
    - if:
        condition:
          switch.is_on: use_wake_word
        then:
          - voice_assistant.start_continuous:
          - script.execute: reset_led
  on_client_disconnected:
    - if:
        condition:
          switch.is_on: use_wake_word
        then:
          - voice_assistant.stop:
          - light.turn_off: led

external_components:
  - source: github://pr#5230
    components:
      - esp_adf
    refresh: 0s

esp_adf:

On lines 3 and 10 I define unique IDs for the device’s microphone and speaker.

But ESPHome won’t compile, telling me:

• on line 46: Too many candidates found for ‘id’ type ‘speaker::Speaker’ Some are ‘echo_speaker’, ‘echo_speaker_kitchen’.
• on line 57: Too many candidates found for ‘id’ type ‘speaker::Speaker’ Some are ‘echo_speaker’, ‘echo_speaker_kitchen’.
• on line 77: Too many candidates found for ‘id’ type ‘microphone::Microphone’ Some are ‘echo_microphone’, ‘echo_microphone_kitchen’.
• on line 90: Too many candidates found for ‘id’ type ‘speaker::Speaker’ Some are ‘echo_speaker’, ‘echo_speaker_kitchen’.

There are no other occurrences of the word “speaker” or “microphone” in the conf yaml (and I’m not including other yaml files).

I’m assuming most of this config is default, and the only things I care about are forcing pin 21 for the speaker (line 11) and redirecting audio to my media player (lines 45-52).