Max Volume Increase muse Luxe?

mcalceet · May 31, 2024, 6:41am

Hi Everyone,

I bought an ESPmuse Luxe, which I managed to integrate into my Home Assistant instance with little to no issues following this tutorial. I named my device ‘MouthPiece’ since I’ll be using it to further test the assistant features.

I was wondering, the speaker within my Muse is set to 100%, but it’s still lacking some of the punch my Google Mini seems to have. Is it possible to edit the ESP32 configuration to increase the max default volume of the speaker?

raspiaudio-muse-luxe-6b07e4.yaml

substitutions:
name: raspiaudio-muse-luxe-6b07e4
friendly_name: Assist Logeerkamer
packages:
raspiaudio.muse-luxe: github://esphome/firmware/media-player/raspiaudio-muse-luxe.yaml@main
esphome:
name: ${name}
name_add_mac_suffix: false
friendly_name: ${friendly_name}
api:
encryption:
key: pvdtjZeo1rOrR4zEc9DBetdxPAyeQSVTnw26vWhTHMA=

wifi:
ssid: !secret wifi_ssid
password: !secret wifi_password

SEKCobra · June 9, 2024, 5:04am

I have also been trying to figure out a way to boost the audio, everything is a bit too quiet in my opinion. I’m also trying to figure out a way to prevent a pop whenever audio starts the first time (using it as a Home Assistant Media Player)

Raspiaudio · June 10, 2024, 6:42am

Hi

Are you using Tetele’s config ?

gist.github.com

https://gist.github.com/tetele/5cac735174527c3b373b10db8d9c8d77

README.md

# Introduction

The purpose of this [ESPHome](https://www.esphome.io/) config is to be able to use the [Raspiaudio Muse Luxe](https://raspiaudio.com/produit/esp-muse-luxe) as a [voice assistant](https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2023/04/27/year-of-the-voice-chapter-2/#composing-voice-assistants) satellite in [Home Assistant](https://www.home-assistant.io/).

## Features

- wake word, push to talk and continuous conversation support
- response playback
- service exposed in HA to start and stop the voice assistant from another device/trigger
- visual feedback of the recording/success/error status via the Luxe's onboard LED

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muse-luxe.yaml

substitutions:
  name: "muse-luxe"
  friendly_name: "RaspiAudio Muse Luxe"
  wifi_ap_password: ""

esphome:
  name: ${name}
  friendly_name: ${friendly_name}
  name_add_mac_suffix: false
  min_version: 2023.10.1

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SEKCobra · January 30, 2025, 7:38pm

Today I did some more experimenting and managed to get squeezelite working on the muse, and the sound was actually surprisingly good and very loud. So the hardware is actually very capable, which made me sad to see that I couldn’t get it to work louder with HA/ESPHome. As I have actually noticed that snapcast is much better for multi-room audio, I am hoping I’ll eventually manage to set up snapcast on it.

Raspiaudio · January 31, 2025, 9:27am

Hi!

In HA it was reporteD recently for the volume I’ve made a fix a couple weeks ago in the ES8388 component here so if you recompile the yaml or just upload the bin from our apps store you should hear a difference

For the quality this is another story as I think that the sample rate in Home Assistant is pretty low compared to Squeezelite. if anyone has info on it?

SEKCobra · January 31, 2025, 2:02pm

Oh nice to hear, I will have to check it out. Still, I might try and get snapcast working on the hardware, it has been working a lot better for me than other solutions.

Raspiaudio · January 31, 2025, 6:23pm

Is snapcast any good? What is different compared to Squeezelite?

Please open a new subject to share your results I could try to help to make it work with the Luxe and Radio.

SEKCobra · January 31, 2025, 6:36pm

I think it’s really great, it has much better Sync (I think I read 0,x ms vs 1x ms for squeezelite) and just feels more modern and solid. I’ve also not had any issues with resyncing or dropouts, unlike squeezelite has had after pausing.