Rooting an Amazon Echo Dot

T1Covered by 1 source · first reported by Raspberry Pi / Arduino / Adafruit at 02 Nov, 21:30 UTC

Julian Imhof, writing on andystechlab.dev, turned a 2018 Echo Dot 3 into a local Home Assistant voice satellite. Amazon cloud isn’t used in handling the voice commands. The work needs a Linux computer, an open-source project, and a USB cable soldered to the board. The Echo Dot doesn’t have a USB…