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[zeieri]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
Looking to see if there is a way to accomplish an idea. I have this app already working with Atom Echo's (and it's working better then ESPresence did). My next step is to try using ESP32-S3-Box-3 units running the voice assistant but I also want them to handle the bluetooth proxy role.

Describe the solution you'd like
ESP32-S3-Box-3 running the voice assistant with Bluetooth at the same time.

Describe alternatives you've considered
Alternate devices but I'd prefer to reduce the number of devices per room.

Additional context
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Side note - amazing work - thank you for putting the time and effort into developing this!

[tbrasser]

Well you can try, but it's gonna be tough on resources, but maybe when using openwakeword and not mww it might work.

Also probably hardwired esps instead of wifi gives bluetooth all the airtime it needs, but havent seen a voice assistant sattelite yet with ethernet.

I might try enabling bluetooth proxy on one of my onju voices and see whether it is stable or not.

[zeieri]

So fortunately, I got it working. From an openwakeword perspective, I haven't noticed more lag then usual but it's only been a few hours!