Settings in Home Assistant

Everything on Settings on the screen is also a Home Assistant entity. This page covers what is only in Home Assistant: the microphones, the assistants’ timing, ducking, photos and more, plus the sensors, buttons, events and actions.

Find them on the display’s page under Settings → Devices & services → ESPHome. The Entity column is the entity id Home Assistant gives each one by default, with <device> standing for your display’s name.

The entities are on sub-devices named after the display: screen, microphone, playback, camera, assistant 1 and assistant 2, voice triggers, and dashboard, landscape and portrait (Tessera).

Speaker

Entity	Name	What it does	Range	Default
media_player.<device>_speaker	Speaker	The media player: announcements, TTS, music, volume
number.<device>_playback_music_ducking	Music ducking	How far music drops while the assistant listens or talks	−40 to −3 dB	−15 dB
select.<device>_playback_sound_machine_layer_1, select.<device>_playback_sound_machine_layer_2	Sound machine layer 1, 2	Two layers of steady sound, mixed, ducking under everything else	Off, White, Pink, Brown, Rain, Ocean, Brook, Wind, Fire, Crickets, Fan, Cabin	Off
volume_*	Volumes	The same sliders as Settings → Sound	0–100 %

Microphones

See Microphones for what these do and how to tune them. Apart from Mute sound, none of them are copied by config sync.

Entity	Name	Range	Default
number.<device>_microphone_microphone_gain	Microphone gain	0–20 dB on the Smart Display 10, 8 and ThinkSmart View; 0–32 on the JBL Link View; 0–40 on the Smart Display 7	0 dB
switch.<device>_microphone_microphone_leveling	Microphone leveling	On, Off	On
switch.<device>_microphone_noise_suppression	Noise suppression	On, Off	On
number.<device>_microphone_room_sensitivity	Room sensitivity	4–20 dB above the room	8 dB

Voice assistants

Each assistant has its own set, on its own sub-device. N is 1 or 2.

Entity	Name	What it does	Range	Default
button.<device>_assistant_N_wake	Wake	Start this assistant without the wake word (button)
number.<device>_assistant_N_wake_word_sensitivity	Wake word sensitivity	Higher needs a clearer wake word	0.5–0.99	0.85
select.<device>_assistant_N_wake_word_tone	Wake word tone	The sound when it wakes	Chimes, custom tones	Chirp
select.<device>_assistant_N_reply_delivery	Reply delivery	Download the reply first, or stream it	Download first, Stream	Download first
number.<device>_assistant_N_reply_buffer	Reply buffer	How much of a streamed reply to collect before playing	0–3000 ms	650 ms
number.<device>_assistant_N_follow_up_time	Follow-up time	Keep listening this long after a reply, for another request without the wake word	0–30 s	0
number.<device>_assistant_N_max_listening_time	Max listening time	Stop listening after this long	5–60 s	15 s
number.<device>_assistant_N_max_thinking_time	Max thinking time	Give up waiting for Home Assistant after this long	5–300 s	90 s
number.<device>_assistant_N_recordings_kept	Recordings kept	Keep the last N requests’ audio, for the recordings action	0–10	0

The wake word and the Assist pipeline are picked with Home Assistant’s own selects on the same device.

Entity	Name	What it does	Range	Default
number.<device>_microphone_stop_word_sensitivity	Stop word sensitivity	How sure “Stop” has to be. 1 turns it off	0.5–1	0.7
sensor.<device>_last_wake_word, sensor.<device>_last_heard, sensor.<device>_last_reply		The last wake word, what was heard, and the reply (sensors)
sensor.<device>_timers	Timers	Running timers (sensor)

The voice actions and commands have their switches on the voice triggers sub-device; see Settings on the screen.

Intercom

Entity	Name	What it does	Range	Default
switch.<device>_receive_broadcasts	Receive broadcasts	Play broadcasts from other devices in this home	On, Off	On

Network and Bluetooth

Entity	Name	What it does	Range	Default
select.<device>_bluetooth_scanning	Bluetooth scanning	How much of the radio’s time the Bluetooth proxy spends scanning. Lower leaves more for Wi‑Fi and the Bluetooth speaker	9, 5, 2, 1 %	9 %

Screen

Entity	Name	What it does	Range	Default
number.<device>_screen_visualizer_lift	Visualizer lift	Extra gain on the microphone for the visuals only, so quiet rooms still move them	0–40 dB	10 dB
photos_*	Photos	Where wallpaper photos come from; see Photos and wallpaper
sensor.<device>_screen_screen_brightness	Screen brightness	The backlight right now (sensor)
sensor.<device>_ambient_light, sensor.<device>_proximity, binary_sensor.<device>_presence, sensor.<device>_orientation		Sensors

Buttons

Entity	What it does
button.<device>_restart	Restart LANovo
button.<device>_check_for_updates	Check for an update now
button.<device>_install_selected_version	Install the version picked in install_version (Other versions)
button.<device>_purge_cache, with sensor sensor.<device>_cached_data	Delete cached wake word models; they download again when needed
button.<device>_screen_next_poster	Show the next wallpaper photo
button.<device>_camera_reset_camera_settings	Put every camera setting back to its default

Sensors

CPU usage, load average, free memory and disk, ambient light, proximity, presence, orientation, microphone muted, camera covered, now playing, timers, and the call state.

Events

Event	When
update_outcome	An update finished or failed
esphome.alarm_ringing, esphome.alarm_snoozed, esphome.alarm_stopped	An alarm rings, is snoozed or stopped
esphome.screen_alert	A Tessera alert was dismissed or a button on it tapped (action, title, screen)
esphome.echolocal_turn	An assistant turn finished, with its timings

Actions

Call these as esphome.<device>_<action>, for example esphome.kitchen_show_message.

Action	What it does
show_message, clear_message	Show or clear a message
alarm_list, alarm_set, alarm_enable, alarm_delete, alarm_stop, alarm_snooze	Alarms
tone_write, tone_rename, tone_remove	Custom tones
recordings, turn_audio	The kept recordings of recent requests
settings_export	Every setting that can be copied to another device, with its section, title and value
settings_import	Apply settings from another device: settings is JSON of domain → setting → value, the shape settings_export lists. Answers how many changed and which were skipped
call	Call another device: peer is its name, video true for a video call. Replies with the reason when the call can’t be made (Intercom)
broadcast	Send a broadcast: message empty to record from the microphone, or the address of an audio clip
<orientation>_show_page, _show_alert, _show_alert_choice, _dismiss_alert, _screen_message	Tessera pages and alerts

Note

Some actions, such as picking a wake word on the screen, need Allow the device to perform Home Assistant actions turned on in the ESPHome integration’s options for the display.