Home Hub TODOs

Active Tasks

High Priority

• Document system configuration @M0

Medium Priority

• Flash ESPHome firmware to ESP32 @M1

  ESP32 with WiFi available; needs ESPHome with voice_assistant component

• Configure voice_assistant component @M1
• Set up Home Assistant Assist pipeline (STT/TTS) @M1
• Test wake word detection @M1
• Integrate speaker with Home Assistant @M1
• Expose laptop PipeWire as HA media player @M2
• Create HA automations for audio routing commands @M2
• Voice command: "play audio on system speakers" @M2
• Voice command: "send audio to speaker 1" @M2
• Test end-to-end voice-controlled routing @M2

Completed

• Diagnose PipeWire showing only Dummy Output @M0 #high

  Root cause: hassio_audio Docker container running PulseAudio --system grabbed all /dev/snd/* devices

• Fix audio by stopping hassio_audio container @M0 #high

  Stopped container, unmuted sink, set volume to 75%

• Permanently resolve hassio_audio and PipeWire conflict @M0 #high (2026-02-02)

  Used nsenter to mount empty tmpfs over /dev/snd inside container namespace, then restart PulseAudio. Container stays running (supervisor happy) but can't access ALSA devices. Systemd service: disable-hassio-audio.service

• Verify audio survives reboot @M0 #high (2026-02-02)

  Confirmed: full audio hardware detected after clean reboot with hassio_audio still running

• Set up Gitea repository for home-hub project @M0 #low (2026-02-02)
• Diagnose and fix PipeWire audio @M0 #high (2026-02-02)
• Permanently resolve hassio_audio conflict @M0 #medium (2026-02-02)

Known Issues

Issue	Status	Workaround
hassio_audio grabs ALSA devices exclusively	Resolved	disable-hassio-audio.service masks /dev/snd inside container via nsenter
new-project CLI settings.json had empty git_host fields	Resolved	Fixed settings.json with correct Gitea URL and owner