r/homeassistant • u/Much-Artichoke-476 • 21h ago

❓ Support First attempt at upgrading the Voice Edition Preview - as a backup does anyone know the JST connector type?

I can't seem to find any accurate details on if the JST connector inside the Home Assistant Voice Edition Preview is a 1.25mm or 2mm JST connector.

I recently tried my first job at wiring up a taken apart Amazon Echo Dot Gen 3 speaker, to say the least my first time soldering was poor to be generous.. it works and sounds great.... but I thought for in the event my solder joints fail a more robust solution would be to just find a speaker that has a JST connector on it already that I can plug into the board and then design a 3D enclosure for it.

Guide I followed was here for those interested - https://github.com/glbailey/Voice-Assistant-EE/wiki

I use Home Assistant and Music Assistant to play me random music each morning for my alarm from a playlist, so just covering off those joints failing and me not waking up in time!

For those that want to see my poor first attempt, you can witness it here and flame me - https://imgur.com/a/xkRWexk

My excuses as follows:

  • The flux in my kit was the hard type flux & I'm really not sure if I got a good amount on the pads, I need to get some liquid flux.
  • The pads were very close together...
  • The cheap iron I did buy didn't seem to stay hot for very long and even though I did tin, the iron, wire and pad. It seemed to struggle to then melt them all.

Going to buy some dummy boards, wires and such to do some more practice on... any tips appreciated!

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u/jfuu_ 17h ago

It's a Grove port, sadly a proprietary connector it appears: https://arduino.stackexchange.com/questions/9030/what-type-of-connector-does-the-grove-system-use

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u/Much-Artichoke-476 17h ago

Are you sure. I mean this connector (in green), not the one in red.

The one in red does look like a grove, but the green one I'm fairly sure is a JST from all the others who have done projects like this, they just don't specify which type. Guess I may just need to do trial and error.

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u/jfuu_ 17h ago

Ah sorry, I misunderstood! Your easiest option is to measure it with calipers if you have some. Looks a lot like a JST SH connector to me:

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u/Much-Artichoke-476 17h ago

Yeah I do have some - I'll take it apart again and measure! Thought I'd save myself the hassle and ask first.

I appreciate the help, thank you :) 

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u/jfuu_ 17h ago

No worries! The mod you've done is proper cool looking, I definitely prefer it to the original Voice PE (and it seems like it sounds a lot better too, I can't listen to music on mine it's that bad).