# A German dev used Claude to turn an old Echo Dot in a drawer into a Home Assistant speaker: +527 stars in a week · GitHub open-source project

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> It was among the first to ship a working version once the Echo Dot 3 root was released, and "hears well, doesn't wake up by mistake" earned the best word of mouth in the forums. A mid-October YouTube hands-on video plus XDA's "someone used Claude to crack the Echo" coverage together brought a wave of stars.

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# A German dev used Claude to turn an old Echo Dot in a drawer into a Home Assistant speaker: +527 stars in a week

**What it is** An open-source program that replaces Alexa on a rooted old Amazon Echo, turning it into a local voice assistant for Home Assistant. The original mic and wake word still work.

**Why it took off** Within days of the Echo Dot 3 root being released, it was among the first to produce a working version. "Hears you, doesn't wake randomly" earned the best word of mouth on the forums. A late-October YouTube walkthrough plus XDA's "someone used Claude to crack an Echo" coverage brought a concentrated wave of stars.

**C** **How you could follow it** Don't build an eighth old-Echo-to-HA project. Take the method instead: watch the cracking community for new roots, and within two weeks turn that device model into something that works in HA out of the box, keep the good parts of the original firmware, then hand it to mid-tier HA YouTubers.

Grade C: six or seven projects already do the same thing, the top one has 1409 stars, and later entrants get only a few hundred. The opportunity depends on someone else releasing an exploit, and you can't control when or which model it covers. What's worth learning is the method: "new root + works out of the box + creator video." Spreading in a small circle

Data (updated daily) · Repo created 2026-09-21 · 833 stars · 7 days +567

GitHub · stars

Data 2026-10-09 → 2026-11-08 (31 days, 30 observations). Points before 10-28 come from deeply / archive backfill, not every day has one

In 2026 September, 2018 Echo Dot models were rooted. 9 days later, a German developer had AI write a program to replace Alexa, turning it into a local voice assistant for Home Assistant that keeps only Amazon's original mic and wake word. It grew slowly on the forums for a month. A YouTube video with 150k views in late October, plus coverage from Hackaday and XDA, took it from 206 stars to 629 in four days. At least six or seven open-source projects are doing the same thing, and it is neither the first nor the one with the most stars. Anyone trying to get stars for an open-source project can look at what it hit and how much room is left in this spot.

### "Couldn't resist throwing my clanker at the problem"

In Sep 2026 12, the Android cracking scene's R0rt1z2 posted on the XDA forums, releasing unlock and root methods for the third-gen Echo Dot (2018 model, codename donut).

On the evening of Sep 21, Julian Imhof of Darmstadt, Germany (GitHub account Gamer92000, called JUL14N on the Home Assistant forums) created the repo echo-dot-assist. Half an hour later he posted in the Home Assistant community, opening with:

> After I saw that my Echo Dot got rooted I could not resist throwing my clanker at the problem and turning the paperweight into a usable HA voice satellite. ("Clanker" is a playful online nickname for AI.)

The README is candid too: the code was written in conversation with Claude and has not been audited. This is the author's only repo on GitHub.

As of Nov 6 (GitHub): 730 stars, 61 forks, the forum thread has 190 replies and 10k+ views.

### What it does

The Echo is first unlocked using someone else's exploit (on a Dot 3 you open the case and solder a few wires to the board for USB; on a Dot 2 you just plug in a micro-USB cable). Then you run the author's install script, which uses a small C daemon, `hassmic`, to replace the Alexa client. Home Assistant then discovers the Echo on its own, and you just click "Add," no YAML needed.

What sets it apart from similar projects is that **it replaces only Alexa, while Amazon's microphone array processing, echo cancellation and wake-word engine all stay in place** . So the wake word is still "Alexa" (you can change it to "Echo" or "Computer"), and it hears you across the room even with music playing. When you have several units, the one closest to you answers, and the Echoes coordinate this among themselves over the LAN without going through HA or the cloud. It also adds Music Assistant multi-room audio, Bluetooth speakers and Bluetooth proxy, whisper detection, a built-in settings page, signed updates, and a firewall that blocks Amazon's cloud entirely. Within a month and a half, supported models expanded from the Dot 3 to the Dot 2, Echo 2, Echo Show 5/8 and Echo Input.

Users care most about "hears you, doesn't wake randomly." A forum user wrote in Oct 25:

> I've flashed 6 units. Using Amazon's native Alexa wake word is a world apart from other HA satellite projects. With the other solutions my family nearly revolted over constant false wake-ups.

Another user said in Oct 28 that their living-room TV runs for over two hours every night. Every Echo mod they'd tried got falsely triggered by the TV, so they ended up muting it whenever a show was on. With this one, after a week it had falsely woken only once, and that time a line of dialogue really did contain "computer." Someone else said in Oct 18 that after flashing one unit they bought 9 more used Dots on eBay and planned to replace all the Google Home Minis at home.

### Why now

**The demand came from Amazon itself.** Amazon is pushing cloud-based Alexa+, and in March 2025 it removed the "don't upload recordings" option, so older Echoes got worse with use. Home Assistant users want to leave Alexa, but the ESP32 satellites built from DIY mics and Nabu Casa's official $59 Voice PE get the most complaints for weak far-field pickup. A forum comment read: "I regret throwing away my Echos. My HA voice assistant keeps mishearing me and can't hear me."

**The window was opened by someone else's exploit.** The Dot 3 root was only released in Sep 12, and this project had a working build 9 days later. Most similar projects target the Dot 2, and the Dot 3 has a large installed base and sells cheaply used.

**The author answers fast.** Most of the 190 forum replies are users reporting problems and the author pushing fixes the same day: global mute, swallowed words after wake, script not finding commands on Debian, multi-device arbitration slowing wake-up. Nearly all got a beta the same or the next day. Releases are named by timestamp, and many shipped within 46 days. One person keeping that pace is possible because AI writes the code.

### Where the stars came from

| Timeline | What happened | star(GitHub) |
|---|---|---|
| 09-21 | Repo created, and posted in the HA community the same day | 0 |
| Late September to October | Spread by word of mouth on the HA forums and Reddit r/homeassistant, with posts calling it "the best Echo Dot setup right now" | 10-16 115 → 10-30 203, +1~10 per day |
| 10-30 | YouTube channel Andy's Tech Lab posted "I Rooted an Echo Dot," with a blog post covering the whole process on Fedora: soldering wires, flashing, and connecting to HA | — |
| 10-31 | Hackaday shared the video; XDA followed with "Someone used Claude to turn an Amazon Echo Dot into a Home Assistant satellite" | 206 |
| 11-01 to 11-04 | Volume ramps up | 266 → 415 (+149 in a single day) → 539 → 629 |
| 11-05 to 11-06 | Decline | 687 → 730 |

That video drew about 6k views in 154 days (YouTube, 11-06). The blog only links to the creator's own ko-fi and Amazon affiliate links, so there's no sign the project paid for it; it was likely chosen by the creator. Over the same period, similar EchoMuse gained only 5~10 a day and echolocal 29 in a week, so the traffic surge went to this one repo, not the whole category. I couldn't find it on Hacker News, X or TikTok.

The differentiation mattered because it made it easy for creators to pick: the best word of mouth on the forums, automatic HA discovery with no YAML, and a smooth video to shoot. The real scale-up came from the video and the media coverage. The XDA headline also shows another thing: in 2026, "used Claude to crack an Echo" was news in itself.

### The space is already crowded

| Project | Approach | Repo created | star(GitHub,11-06) |
|---|---|---|---|
| wilbowes/EchoMuse | Focused on the Dot 2, managing a fleet of Echoes, without the original audio front end; in September it gained traction from a roughly 120k-view video plus How-To Geek coverage | 2026-05 | 1409 |
| Gamer92000/echo-dot-assist | The subject of this article | 2026-09 | 730 |
| HuskerMinion/techo5 series | Replace the whole OS with Alpine Linux, covering Show 5, Dot 2 and Spot. The author also made a comparison page of seven projects. | 2026-09 | 545 / 219 / 47 |
| ygelfand/echolocal | Covers Dot and Show, with an HACS panel and conversation logs. | 2026-07 | 535 |
| ale1800/LocalDot | No root needed. Swap the Dot 3 mainboard for an ESP32 board. | 2026-08 | 165 |
| rhasspy/wyoming-satellite and others | A generic satellite software. You set up a Raspberry Pi and microphone yourself. | From ¥2023 | 1240 / 687 |

These aren't copying each other. They all popped up together over the past half year. The pattern is clear: **every project that hit thousands or hundreds of stars had a freshly unlocked device plus a mid-tier YouTube video.** EchoMuse is following the same path: video → tech media → GitHub.

### If it were you

**Verdict** : Don't crowd into this exact spot. "Old Echo to HA" already has six or seven projects, the top one with 1409 stars and the rest in the hundreds. What's worth taking away is how they earned their stars.

**Good fit** : People who know Android or embedded Linux, have a pile of old smart devices, and are willing to hang out on forums every day answering posts.

**Bad fit** : Anyone trying to build a "better Echo" to take users from these projects. Users already have a solution that "listens well and doesn't wake up by accident," and a eighth project won't get media coverage. Also not for people who want to find exploits themselves, which is a different craft. These projects' windows were opened by someone else's exploit.

**How to do it:**

- Watch the jailbreak scene. When someone on XDA forums, R0rt1z2 and similar circles releases root for a widely owned older device (smart speaker, screen speaker, TV box, router), within a week or two it turns into something you can install and use in HA.

- The key step to copy: keep the original parts that can stay (here, the mic and wake word) and only replace the cloud-tied layer. That way the experience isn't worse than the stock device.

- Lower the install barrier to "run one script, click to add." The README should clearly list supported models and whether you can brick the device.

**How to get users** : On day one, post on the Home Assistant community and r/homeassistant yourself, and answer every question. Once word of mouth builds, actively pitch the project to mid-tier YouTube creators who cover HA and hardware hacking (the tens-of-thousands-to-hundreds-of-thousands view tier). Say openly in the README that it was "written with AI." In 2026, that's a hook media will pick up.

**When to move** : Within two weeks after the new root drops. After that, the same model usually already has two or three projects.

**Signs you read it wrong** : A month after the new root is released, none of the matching "HA mod" projects pass one hundred stars. Or Amazon kills these exploits with an OTA update (firmware is now pinned to specific versions), so existing devices can no longer be flashed.

[GitHub repo ↗](https://github.com/Gamer92000/echo-dot-assist)

**Research notes: competitor table, acquisition evidence, full research report**

Competitors

| Name | Where | Launched | Scale | How it differs from this one |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EchoMuse (wilbowes) | Open source | 2026-05 | 1409 star | Focuses on Dot 2, uses a centralized container controller to manage a fleet of devices, and doesn't use the stock audio front end. September took off thanks to Cameron Gray's video. |
| EchoLocal (ygelfand) | Open source | 2026-07 | 535 stars + HACS companion 64 stars | Covers Dot and Show, with a panel and conversation logs. Uses only part of the stock front end. No recent device arbitration. |
| TECHO5 series (HuskerMinion) | Open source | 2026-09 | 545/219/47 star | Replaces the system with Alpine Linux. More features, but doesn't keep the stock audio stack. |
| Kiosk Satellite / View Assist (LineageOS approach) | Open source | From ¥2025-11 | Related libraries have tens to 900 stars. | Runs Android apps on LineageOS. Aimed mainly at Echo Show screen devices. |
| LocalDot (ale1800) | Open source | 2026-08 | 165 star | Replaces the mainboard with an ESP32 board. No root needed, but you have to buy hardware. |
| Home Assistant Voice PE | Other | 2024-12 | Official Nabu Casa hardware, $59 | You have to buy new devices, and far-field pickup and audio quality don't match the Echo. |
| wyoming-satellite / linux-voice-assistant | Open source | 2023 / 2025 | 1240 / 687 star | A generic satellite software. You set up a Raspberry Pi and microphone yourself. |
| Alexa+ | Big-company features | 2025 | All Amazon devices | Cloud-based. Cloud processing being optional is exactly why users are leaving. |

Where users come from

- **Verified** **Platform event: R0rt1z2 releases Dot 3 root** : XDA forum post 2026-09-12. The author's first HA post said they started only after seeing the Dot could be rooted, and the repo was created 9 days later.

- **Verified** **Community: Home Assistant forum** : author posted 09-21, 190 replies, 10177 views, 102 likes (11-05)

- **Verified** **Reddit r/homeassistant** : user posts calling it the best Echo Dot solution right now (1wwz08l), and a project comparison thread. Scores not verified.

- **Verified** **YouTube creator** : Andy's Tech Lab, "I Rooted an Echo Dot," published around 10-30/31, 6 days later 154,369 views, with an accompanying blog 10-30

- **Verified** **Media** : Hackaday 10-31, XDA 10-31 (headline leads with Claude). Star counts jumped from 11-01 to 11-04 afterward.

- Inferred **HN / X / TikTok / ads** : Not found in our hackernews database or x-radar corpus.

## echo-dot-assist (Gamer92000): turns an old Echo into a local Home Assistant voice satellite

- Repo: [github.com/Gamer92000/echo-dot-assist](https://github.com/Gamer92000/echo-dot-assist) (MIT, C, created 2026-09-21)

- Author: Julian Imhof (Darmstadt, GitHub Gamer92000, HA forum ID JUL14N). Personal project. The README states the code was "generated by Claude in conversation, not audited."

- Current status (our GitHub database, 2026-11-06): 730 stars / 61 forks. Last 7 days: +527. First 7 days: +56. Single-day peak: +149 (11-02)

### Bottom line

2026-09-12 R0rt1z2 released the root for the Echo Dot 3(2018), and 9 days later the author used Claude to write the hassmic daemon, riding the "jailbreak Echo for Home Assistant" wave. It grew slowly for a month in the HA forums and small Reddit circles (+1~10 stars a day). 10-30/31 YouTube channel Andy's Tech Lab posted a how-to video (about 154k views), and Hackaday and XDA reposted it the same day, so stars jumped from 206 to 629 between 11-01 and 11-04. On the product side, the differentiator is keeping Amazon's original mic front end and wake-word engine and only replacing Alexa, so far-field pickup matches the stock device. The "written by Claude" angle is also itself a hook media are willing to cover.

### 1. What it is

- Requires an Echo already unlocked via R0rt1z2's amonet / kamakiri / kaeru exploits. A small C daemon, `hassmic`, then replaces the Alexa client. The Echo is auto-discovered in Home Assistant as an ESPHome device (no YAML, no add-on needed), and can also switch to Wyoming satellite mode.

- Kept: Amazon's microphone array processing, echo cancellation, the stock wake-word engine ("Alexa / Echo / Computer"), and the Halo light animations.

- Added: multiple Echos arbitrate who responds on the LAN (without relying on HA); Music Assistant / Sendspin multi-room audio; Bluetooth speakers (AAC / aptX) and an HA Bluetooth proxy; up to +12 dB volume; whisper detection; Wi‑Fi motion sensing; a built-in device settings page; signed updates; a firewall that blocks Amazon's cloud entirely.

- Supported models: Echo Dot 3 (2018, requires opening the case and soldering test points), Dot 2 (micro-USB, no soldering), Echo 2, Echo Show 5/8 gen 1 and 2, Echo Input. Source: README.

- Free, no monetization.

### 2. Competitors (doing the same thing)

| Project | Form | Launched | Scale (2026-11-06, our GitHub database) | Difference from echo-dot-assist |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| wilbowes/EchoMuse | Open source | 2026-05-01 | 1409 stars, +48 in the last 7 days | Focuses on Dot 2, uses one centralized container controller to manage a fleet of Echos, and doesn't use the stock audio front end. September took off thanks to Cameron Gray's video (about 124k views) and How-To Geek (09-19), going from 09-02 330 to 09-28 902. |
| ygelfand/echolocal(+ echolocal-hacs) | Open source | 2026-07-31 | 535 star,+29 | Supports Dot and Show, with an HACS panel, wake-word library, and conversation logs. Uses only part of the stock front end. The comparison page says "recent device arbitration" not found. |
| HuskerMinion/techo5 / techo5-dot / techo5-spot | Open source | From ¥2026-09-14 | 545 / 219 / 47 star | Replaces the whole system with Alpine Linux (Show 5, Dot 2, Spot), with more features (real-time voice AI, etc.). The author maintains a 7 project comparison page. |
| Kiosk Satellite (jxlarrea, LineageOS image) | Open source / App | 2026-10 supports Dot 2 | Image repo 22 stars; same author's voice-satellite-card 919 stars | Android app running on LineageOS, aimed at screen devices |
| View Assist / Derek Seaman's Echo Show jailbreak guide | Open source + tutorial | 2025-11 | Blog + YouTube tutorial | Wipes Fire OS and flashes LineageOS. Only targets Show screen devices. |
| LibreEcho | Open source | Not verified | Not verified | Replaces the entire system and can run standalone without HA. |
| ale1800/LocalDot | Hardware | 2026-08-13 | 165 star | Replaces the Dot 3 mainboard with an ESP32 replacement board. No root needed. |
| Home Assistant Voice PE(Nabu Casa) | Official hardware | 2024-12 | Official product, $59 | Requires buying new hardware; far-field pickup and audio quality are worse than Echo |
| rhasspy/wyoming-satellite, OHF-Voice/linux-voice-assistant | Open source | 2023 / 2025 | 1240 / 687 star | A generic satellite software. You set up a Raspberry Pi and microphone yourself. |
| Amazon Alexa+ | Big-company features | From ¥2025 | — | Goes through the cloud; 2025-03 Amazon removed the "don't upload recordings" option, and that is exactly the demand behind this batch of projects |

Verdict: the lane is already crowded. Since May 2026, at least 6 or 7 open-source projects have been going after "old Echo → HA". echo-dot-assist is not the first, and right now it doesn't have the most stars (EchoMuse has 1409).

### 3. Growth: where users came from (by time)

1. **09-12 platform event** : R0rt1z2 posted the unlock / root thread for the Echo Dot 3 (2018, donut) on XDA (xdaforums.com/t/...4801400). The author's opening post on the HA forum reads, roughly, "Saw my Echo Dot can be rooted, so I couldn't resist throwing my clanker (meaning AI) at this problem."

2. **Database built 09-21, same day posted to the HA community** (community.home-assistant.io/t/1025971): by 11-05 it had 190 replies, 10177 views, and 102 likes. In another Dot 3 discussion thread (opened at /t/1020256,08-07, 10266 views), the author also posted hassmic.

3. **Reddit r/homeassistant** : a user called it "the best Echo Dot solution right now, a replacement for EchoMuse / EchoLocal" (1wwz08l), and there are project comparison threads (1x9w6dt, 1x823du). The Reddit post bodies were blocked by 403, so the scores are unverified.

4. **10-30/31 key moment: YouTube's Andy's Tech Lab posted "I Rooted an Echo Dot / This Echo Dot Runs in Home Assistant Without Amazon"** , roughly 6 views in 154,369 days (from the YouTube page, read on 11-06), with a companion blog at andystechlab.dev (10-30). This is organic content from a third-party creator. The blog only has the author's own ko-fi and Amazon affiliate links, and there's no sign the project team paid for it.

5. **10-31 media pickup** : Hackaday's "Rooting An Amazon Echo Dot" (Maya Posch, 10-31,12 comments) picked up the video. XDA's "Someone used Claude to turn an Amazon Echo Dot into a Home Assistant satellite" (Simon Batt, 10-31 21:43 EDT) then picked up the Hackaday piece, leading with "Claude" in the headline.

6. **Star response** (our github repo_day): 10-31 206 → 11-01 266 (+60) → 11-02 415 (+149) → 11-03 539 → 11-04 629 → 11-05 687 → 11-06 730, already tapering off. Competitors didn't rise in the same window (EchoMuse +5~10 per day, echolocal +29/week), which suggests this wave of traffic was aimed at this repo specifically, not the whole category heating up.

7. **Long tail** : a Polish creator, MarkLabs, wrote a Windows install guide (about 11-01 views); trendshift.io indexed it.

8. Not found: HN (no related story in our hackernews library since 08-01), X (0 items in the x-radar corpus), TikTok, ads.

### 4. Why it took off

- **Timing** : the Dot 3 root was released just 09-12, and this is one of the first projects to turn the Dot 3 into a "works out of the box satellite" (EchoMuse / techo5-dot focus on Dot 2). Dot 3 units are abundant and cheap secondhand, so a few soldered wires can rescue a "dead brick".

- **Demand backdrop** : Amazon is pushing Alexa+, 2025-03 removed the option for local processing, and the old Echo experience keeps getting worse (lots of complaints on r/amazonecho). HA users want to "get off Alexa" but don't want to pay for new hardware.

- **Product point** : it keeps the stock far-field mics and wake word, so it "hears you from across the room, even with music playing." That's exactly what DIY ESP32 satellites and Voice PE get criticized for. On top of that, HA auto-discovery and no YAML writing mean a low barrier to entry, which makes it easy to film.

- **Distribution** : one creator video with 150k views, plus same-day pickup by Hackaday and XDA, brought in roughly 470 stars in a single week. "Claude vibe-coded an Echo jailbreak" was a natural media hook in 2026 (XDA grouped it with its story on "Claude jailbreaking a Samsung Tizen TV").

- **Execution speed** : in 46 days it shipped a lot of releases (named by timestamp), expanded from 3 models to 8, and answered every question in the forum. AI-written code let one person keep up with that pace.

### 5. Differentiation, and whether that's why it broke out

There are three points of differentiation. First, it only replaces the Alexa client and keeps the stock audio front end and wake-word engine (in the comparison page, it's the only one with "Uses the stock audio front end: Yes"). Second, with multiple Echos, the nearest one answers via arbitration on the LAN without going through HA or the cloud. Third, the feature set is full (Bluetooth proxy, whisper detection, Wi-Fi presence sensing, +12 dB). These differences got it recommended as "the best right now" on the HA forum and Reddit, and they drove the organic growth of the first month (about 200 stars). But the surge in November came mainly from a creator video and media reprints. The differentiation worked as a reason for creators to pick it to film, not as a direct growth engine.

### 6. Visibility and copycats

- Visibility: it's circulating in a small circle. Within the HA and hardware-tinkering community there's coverage from Hackaday and XDA and a 150k-view video, but it's not a mainstream topic. There's no revenue, and no plans to charge.

- Copycats: none found yet. Similar projects in the space emerged at the same time (EchoMuse in May, echolocal in July, techo5 in September). The techo5 author has already published a comparison page to compete for users.

### 7. What to borrow

- "As soon as a new exploit or new platform capability is released, package it immediately as an out-of-the-box product." The window is only a week or two.

- Recycling installed hardware (hundreds of millions of Echos) plus anti-surveillance / anti-platform sentiment is a topic with an audience already in place.

- Openly stating "written with AI" in the README became a hook for media coverage.

- A mid-tier YouTube hands-on video → Hackaday → XDA is the most effective amplification path for hardware-hacking open-source projects (EchoMuse in September followed the same pattern: a Cameron Gray video plus How-To Geek).

### 8. Uncertain

- Real install base (it requires teardown and soldering, so conversion from stars to actual installs may be very low).

- Whether Andy's video was coordinated with the author or sponsored: no evidence found; judged to be organic.

- Scores and comment counts of each Reddit post (blocked by 403).

- Whether Amazon will push an OTA to block it (it requires the firmware version to be pinned at 6574.1).

### Sources

- Repo README: [github.com/Gamer92000/echo-dot-assist](https://github.com/Gamer92000/echo-dot-assist)

- Our GitHub database repo_profile / repo_day(2026-11-06)

- HA community: [community.home-assistant.io/t/1025971](https://community.home-assistant.io/t/1025971), /t/1020256 (Discourse JSON, 11-06)

- Andy's Tech Lab video: [www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5bRPBtgw-U](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5bRPBtgw-U); blog: [andystechlab.dev/p/rooting-an-echo-dot-3-for-local-home-assi…](https://andystechlab.dev/p/rooting-an-echo-dot-3-for-local-home-assistant-voice-control/)

- Hackaday:[hackaday.com/2026/10/31/rooting-an-amazon-echo-dot/](https://hackaday.com/2026/10/31/rooting-an-amazon-echo-dot/)

- XDA:[www.xda-developers.com/someone-used-claude-to-root-an-amazon…](https://www.xda-developers.com/someone-used-claude-to-root-an-amazon-echo-dot-and-turn-it-into-a-home-assistant-satellite/)

- R0rt1z2 Dot 3 root:[xdaforums.com/t/unlock-root-twrp-unbrick-amazon-echo-dot-3rd…](https://xdaforums.com/t/unlock-root-twrp-unbrick-amazon-echo-dot-3rd-gen-2018-donut.4801400/)

- Comparison page: [huskerminion.github.io/techo5/comparison/](https://huskerminion.github.io/techo5/comparison/) (11-05 checked)

- EchoMuse video (Cameron Gray): [www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJ2OxFRJRLk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJ2OxFRJRLk); How-To Geek: [www.howtogeek.com/old-echo-speaker-too-good-to-throw-away/](https://www.howtogeek.com/old-echo-speaker-too-good-to-throw-away/)

- MarkLabs:[marklabs.pl/en/echo-dot-2-home-assistant-voice-satellite/](https://marklabs.pl/en/echo-dot-2-home-assistant-voice-satellite/)

- Reddit: r/homeassistant 1wwz08l, 1x9w6dt, 1x823du (search snippets only)

This article was written by AI from public data and the data we collect daily. Numbers are sourced, and inferences are labeled.