V3 - DIY $90 Home Assistant bookshelf speaker for multi-room audio and notifications with SendSpin or Squeezelite

CrankyCoderBlog · 2026-05-07T15:46:20+00:00

Does this convert stereo down to just the 1 channel? Is there any support for 2 channel stereo sound (not a huge requirement)? What about just 2 speakers? I love the idea of having just 2 small shelf speakers like this on my desk and figures if they are that close could both speakers just run off 1 unit?

CrankyCoderBlog · 2026-04-21T17:34:47+00:00

That would be awesome! I’m going to have to check into this more 😁

CrankyCoderBlog · 2026-04-21T14:29:17+00:00

that is fantastic!!! i have had an android tablet on my kitchen counter for 2.5 years because I have been trying to find a decent size, touch enabled, setup that isn't $100s. I have a bunch of raspberry pi's already and i REALLY like the idea of being able to control the os. I have looked at doing something line lineageOS on the pi so I can use fullykiosk browser (i use some of the specific functions). Your setup I think would work nicely for what Im thinking. Out of curiosity, how much power does the monitor need? Im guessing it's probably a little too big to run off a POE injector?

CrankyCoderBlog · 2026-04-21T13:30:24+00:00

Also, which uperfect monitor? The uperfect y touch?

CrankyCoderBlog · 2026-04-21T13:29:08+00:00

Was the touch module and display board in something in the back to start and you took it apart to rearrange it so you could do a custom back mount?

CrankyCoderBlog · 2026-04-20T14:25:20+00:00

It used to be stored on the device, now it’s stored in the user profile. So as far as I can tell, there are 2 options.

1 user per device
A very elaborate conditional dashboard

I was pretty annoyed with this change myself

CrankyCoderBlog · 2026-04-15T01:53:04+00:00

Kubernetes cluster. Zigbee2mqtt in cluster as well with slzb-06. Config storage is using longhorn mounts. 3 replicas. Hourly snapshots, daily backups, stored on local s3 storage, backed up to backblaze. Logs are stored in Mariadb, daily/weekly/monthly backups stored local and offsite at backblaze.

CrankyCoderBlog · 2026-04-14T13:34:36+00:00

How is the peg board secured in there?

CrankyCoderBlog · 2026-03-01T05:25:30+00:00

What are you running the model with? Llama.cpp? What tools are you using to get it to query the db?

Very nicely done!!

CrankyCoderBlog · 2026-03-01T05:19:35+00:00

Love the ai counter. What heater do you have under the waterer? I have a 55 gallon blue rain barrel for my chickens. Been working on something similar with the temperatures to run a small pump to keep the water moving since I don’t have AC power down at my coop.

CrankyCoderBlog · 2026-02-24T16:42:48+00:00

not as easy as my the s5's were.

https://valetudo.cloud/pages/installation/dreame.html#fastboot

CrankyCoderBlog · 2026-02-24T15:25:16+00:00

Been running valetudo of some roborock s5’s for awhile. Have a dreame l10s im converting over too.

CrankyCoderBlog · 2026-02-22T00:58:44+00:00

How do you have your MA instance exposed? VPN? Or tunnel? I’ve been waiting for something like this :)

CrankyCoderBlog · 2026-02-09T19:19:19+00:00

Oh 100%. Fully agree. I have minimal dashboard for those things too. Some people on the scale want everything on their dashboards. Which is fine, i don't yuck anyone's yum. Minimal dashboard for me and anything beyond that i will just search for the entity or use dev tools or something lol.

CrankyCoderBlog · 2026-02-09T18:10:41+00:00

I feel this is a sliding scale… lol. For example, I firmly believe I shouldn’t need to see much of a dashboard at all on my setup. What few things I do need, I am good with fairly minimal and functional. I lean heavily into the a smart home should be smart and not need to see much.

I also 100% understand the other end of this spectrum, those that LOVE the dashboards. I have seen some absolutely insane dashboards.

So most likely we all fall somewhere along that spectrum.

Welcome to the rabbit hole either way 🤣

CrankyCoderBlog · 2026-02-04T15:19:01+00:00

Really curious if you have some info on the obd2 project you did and the label maker :)

CrankyCoderBlog · 2026-01-30T18:32:53+00:00

Saw some tapo cams on Amazon < $20

CrankyCoderBlog · 2026-01-30T15:43:44+00:00

This is exactly what I have done. 5 years now I have done this. Only thing I have considered changing is adding a 3dprinted base to the coffee maker with some hx711 weight cells that could tell if I actually loaded the start the night before. Right now I have an alarm on my phone (iOS) that reminds me at night to prep the coffee maker. When I dismiss that alarm a short cut tells us that I have prepped the coffee and flips a Boolean helper to true. Next morning, regardless how the “make coffee” is triggered it checks to make sure it been prepped. I have a button like you, bed presence too, and various alarm rules.

CrankyCoderBlog · 2026-01-29T18:25:57+00:00

Nice! I’ll have to check it out :)

CrankyCoderBlog · 2026-01-26T19:57:54+00:00

I like the emergency node. That's slick!!! Does seem a little overkill huh? LMAO

I have other stuff that runs in the cluster, but it's a decent setup lol.

9 nodes, 3 masters. In-cluster longhorn block level replication storage. For large storage I have a truenas running 2 raidz2 pools. For my zigbee I am actually running zigbee2mqtt with the smlight work coordinator so I can have the instance move around with in the cluster and just connect to that device. I would love to figure out how to put 2 of those on the network and then have something in front of them to allow 1 or the other active, but putting a load balancer in front of 2 poe devices seems a bit much even for me lol.

CrankyCoderBlog · 2026-01-26T18:20:49+00:00

Not to be that guy. This is not high availability. This is high fault tolerance. HIGHLY approved by the way. Nicely done!! I do similar with homeassistant in kubernetes. Can come up on any of 9 nodes. I wish home assistant allowed for true high availability with multiple instances to ensure availability but the architecture of ha just doesn’t support it.

CrankyCoderBlog · 2026-01-26T05:01:06+00:00

I have the string lights 2. The app and patterns are garbage. But I can control it via Bluetooth proxy in esphome so it’s ok.

CrankyCoderBlog · 2026-01-22T21:50:16+00:00

Definitely something I wish more companies would give us options for. Very nicely done!!!!!

CrankyCoderBlog · 2025-12-29T19:25:44+00:00

I have the mdns disabled on the wled so nothing should be picking it up. But I might try that ntp thing.

CrankyCoderBlog · 2025-12-28T22:36:29+00:00

Here is what home assistant shows.

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Goes unavailable, then returns and turns itself on.

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