After a recent update to ESPHome, my ATOM Echos no longer show a wake word in Home Assistant and the wake word field isn’t even editable:

And indeed they aren’t responding to me speaking the wake word.

Has anyone encountered this? Does anyone know of a fix or has a suggestion?

  • GreyEyedGhost
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    3 days ago

    I know almost nothing about this, I’ve only done a few hours of testing with HA and nothing with ESPHome, but a quick search of “esphome wake word disabled” shows a lot of forum chatter since early December. So, you aren’t alone, and I can’t help you, but there are a lot of resources out there that might.

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        3 days ago

        Here’s the search I used, with a six month range on it. There are a variety of issues shown with the wake word with different versions, etc., but I don’t know your exact specs. There are also some for mini wake word, which may or may not be relevant to you. That’s about all the help I can give, unfortunately.

        • Mike Wooskey@lemmy.thewooskeys.comOP
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          1 hour ago

          Thanks. I had indeed found those same results. All are old (i.e., using an older version of ESPHome) and only a couple report the same problem as me, none of which have a solution.

          I’ll keep looking. In the past, similar ESPHome problems “fixed themselves” once another ESPHome update was released (or sometimes 2 or 3 updates later).

  • ikidd@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    Flash again and leave the log running. I had this going on, took a few reboots to get it to not display some error it was throwing in the log. It seems like it’ll work for a while and start again requiring another power cycle or three.

    I went back on old version of ESPHome and that didn’t help. IDK if these Atoms just mile out after a while or what.

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      2 days ago

      It’s a matter of config, not hardware. I was putting my own together (based on the „official” one) and it is working. Maybe they’ve changed something there

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        2 days ago

        Mine worked fine for months, then suddenly started doing this. It was shortly after an update so I thought I’d go back to a previous firmware but no luck. It’s been working for a couple weeks now but it took a few reboots before it “caught”.