ESPHome 2024.7.0: microWakeWord version 2

Jul 17, 2024

microWakeWord

The micro_wake_word component has been updated to “version 2”. This brings the capability to configure multiple models per device and has a vad model for voice activity detection.

The configuration has a breaking change to support these new features.

micro_wake_word:
  model: okay_nabu

needs to be changed to the following:

micro_wake_word:
  models:
    - okay_nabu

Please see the Documentation for the full configuration.

Release 2024.7.1 - July 22

Prevent rename from deleting new config esphome#7104 by @acortelyou
[i2s_microphone] Partially revert #7092 so microphone volume doesn’t change esphome#7109 by @kahrendt
[heatpumpir] Fix BK72XX Compile error with IRremoteESP8266 esphome#6955 by @dianlight
[http_request] allow basic auth for idf esphome#7086 by @oarcher
Fixes sml parser to process extended length lists with a number of items that is dividable by 16 esphome#6148 by @irgendwienet

Release 2024.7.2 - July 25

[http_request] Change default timeout to 4.5s esphome#7123 by @jesserockz
[http_request] Fix ESP-IDF follow redirect esphome#7101 by @dentra

Release 2024.7.3 - August 1

[pmwcs3] Add delay after sending REG_READ_START esphome#7130 by @thevogoncoder
Fix for Mitsubishi units that only support cooling esphome#7143 by @RubyBailey
[micro_wake_word] Fix VAD detection and modify detection computation esphome#7164 by @kahrendt

Full List of Changes

For the complete list of every merged pull request in this release, see the full 2024.7.0 changelog.