I got it shortly after I heard they were discontinued, so there was still some stock floating around. I think it might have been through Dick Smith/Kogan at the time?

If you're willing to go down the Amazon route, I think Echo Dot's have an aux out? They had a device called the Echo Input as well which was like and Echo Dot without the speaker, doesn't seem available anywhere though. I would probably only try this if I could be sure I could disable the microphone and smart speaker functions.

[–] sylverstream 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks. Yeah I don't want any cloud based stuff, especially not from Amazon as I'm afraid they will shut down Alexa if they keep losing money on it.

Guess I'll wait for now. Thanks.

[–] eagleeyedtiger 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Understandable. I feel like there must be something out there that works as a replacement, I just haven’t looked very deeply into it.

[–] sylverstream 2 points 1 year ago

I saw ESPMuse, which is an ESP32 based speaker, but has terrible reviews.

I just checked TM, CC Audio is sold for $200 there. Crazy. https://www.trademe.co.nz/a/marketplace/electronics-photography/media-streaming/chromecast/listing/4278960673

[–] sylverstream 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sorry one more post :) I just found this one on Aliexpress which seems promising. Works via a dedicated app but it seems compatible with HA. https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005003331228026.html

Could be an affordable alternative.

[–] eagleeyedtiger 3 points 1 year ago

Interesting, now I’m wondering if I should sell my CC audio for $200 and get one of these 🤔

[–] sylverstream 2 points 1 year ago

This is an ESP32 solution: https://www.instructables.com/MQTT-Audio-Notifier-for-ESP8266-Play-MP3-TTS-RTTL/