Lower media volume when wake word recognized

[nils-mosbach]

First of all, I’ve tried most solutions for HA Voice Assistants on a ThinkSmart display, and Ava seems to be the only one that recognizes wake words consistently. Love your work—it's great!

What I really enjoyed about View Assist is how media sources are handled. Since I use a Spotify Connect-capable receiver (Marantz) and an Apple TV, it was really convenient to define two media players (one for music and one for TV).

View Assist actually lowered the volume of the playing device and restored it once the voice pipeline finished. This prevented View Assist from continuing to listen after I spoke, as the mic would otherwise capture the playing music.

Any chance something like this can be done using Ava?

Not using Music Assistant, since Mixing Music Assistant and Spotify native Apps breaks WAF. ;)

[knoop7]

I will implement it, thank you for your suggestion, but this is the esphome protocol, there may not be much room for implementation, because they are integration + app nature, we esphome single protocol, many of them are more difficult to break through the limitations of ha

[nils-mosbach]

Nice, that seems to work now.

The only issue is that once the Voice Pipeline finishes and the volume resets to its previous value, a play/pause event seems to be triggered. This cuts off the music playback for a second.
Entity activity logs show the following:

Changed to Playing, triggered by action - media_player: media_play_pause
13:47:03 - 3 minutes ago

Changed to Playing, triggered by action - media_player: media_play_pause
13:47:03 - 3 minutes ago

Changed to Playing, triggered by action - media_player: media_play_pause
13:47:03 - 3 minutes ago

Changed to Playing, triggered by action - media_player: media_play_pause 13:47:03 - 3 minutes ago

Is that supposed to happen?

[knoop7]

This is normal because logs are inevitable and can be updated to the latest version of the test below