# wilbowes/EchoMuse

> A local Alexa replacement for the Echo Dot 2nd Generation: Go firmware plus a Python controller turn the device into a Home Assistant voice satellite with wake word, music playback and a Bluetooth proxy.

- Magnitude: 1.5 out of 10 — Steady
- Stars: 1,236 total · +5 stars measured 2026-10-15, 00:28–10:45 UTC, ≈ 11 by evening
- Star trust: star growth looks organic
- Category: Productivity & self-hosted · Language: Python · License: MIT · Created: 2026-05-01 · Last push: 2026-10-15
- GitHub: https://github.com/wilbowes/EchoMuse · Page: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/wilbowes/EchoMuse

## Useful for

- Build a fully local Home Assistant voice assistant on an Echo Dot without cloud services
- Train a custom wake word with the bundled oww_forge trainer
- Use the Echo Dot as a Home Assistant Bluetooth proxy and media_player

## Why it’s here

- Star-counter measurements on 2026-10-15 (UTC), 00:28–10:45: 1231 → 1236 stars (+5). This is the change over that interval.
- Estimated end-of-day forecast: about +11 stars, using observed gains and the previous day.
- Interest is fading: the two-day pace is 51% of the previous week and a half.

## Star trust

Star growth looks organic.

Star-trust labels are heuristics based on the repository’s behavior, not a check of every stargazer.

## Numbers

- Forks: 93
- Issues and pull requests: 916
- Watchers: 14
- Average over the last week: 17 per day
- Usual pace: 21 per day
- Latest release: v2.18.1 (2026-10-15)

## Stars per day, last 30 days (oldest → newest, today is partial)

2026-10-05 … 2026-11-03: 28, 21, 12, 18, 9, 12, 44, 16, 13, 12, 3, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None

## Magnitude by day, last 14 days

09-27 1.4, 09-28 1.5, 10-04 2.6, 10-05 2.7, 10-06 2.3, 10-07 1.9, 10-08 1.5, 10-09 1.7, 10-10 1.3, 10-11 2.0, 10-12 2.3, 10-13 1.7, 10-14 1.5, 10-15 1.5

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Magnitude (0–10) measures how fast and how unusually interest in a repository is growing right now. It is not a quality score.
Days are UTC. “So far today” is a fact; “expected by the end of the day” is a forecast.
Summaries and use cases are written by an LLM (DeepSeek V4.1 Flash) from the README and may be inaccurate: verify specific claims (benchmarks, speed, hardware) in the repository itself.
Data as of 2026-10-15 10:50 UTC, updated every 30 minutes.