I have some of the ATOM Echos that HA describes here. They work for voice recognition but the speaker in these tiny boxes is…tiny. It’s barely audible when standing right next to the box, and completely inaudible when standing 10 feet away or if there is noise in the room.
Examples of the voice responses I’m talking about are “I’m sorry but I don’t understand that” or “The current time is 2:15pm” or “I turned on the lights in the living room.”
Is it possible to re-route the voice responses to a different media player? Currently, I have a Google Home Mini in each room that I have an ATOM Echo in. It would be nice if I could somehow determine which ECHO received the voice command, which area that Echo was in (e.g., “living room”), and then re-route the voice response to a media player in that area.
But I have no idea how to do this.
My solution to the same problem was to disassemble the echo. Take the speaker output and wire it to a cheap amplifier (adafruit pam8302), and then wire that to a larger speaker in a 3d printed enclosure.
Only thing I wish I did was wire the shutdown pin to one of the extra pins on the echo to turn off the amplifier when nothing is being sent to the speaker.
