# ASCII Aquarium for ESPHome (CrowPanel 7") An ESPHome external component that renders an ASCII aquarium on a display: swimming fish, bubbles, a seabed and clocks. It started on a CYD (ESP32, 320x240) and was ported to the **Elecrow CrowPanel 7" (ESP32-S3, 800x480)with a voice assistant.

## Features

- Fish swim forward and also up/down, each with a random color -

- A temperature fish showing a live value from a sensor

- A "text" fish -

- Feeding: falling flakes that the fish chase (triggered from Home Assistant) -

- Header with a small clock and date, a big ASCII clock, and a boxed clock with a transparent background (each        can be toggled with a switch in HA)

- Adjustable number of fish and speed -

- Halloween mode:**

  - MDI icons swim instead of fish (pumpkins, ghosts, skulls, spiders, spider web)

- Scare     effect:** a blinking ghost/skull image on the display and a spooky sound played by a Home Assistant         automation

- Voice assistant The panel doubles as a voice satellite for Home Assistant: -

 - Wake word (`micro_wake_word`) and `voice_assistant` talk to HA - Microphone: I2S (PDM), speaker: I2S, sounds     are played through a `speaker` `media_player` -

- The assistant state is shown under the header on the display: `LISTENING` → `THINKING` → `SPEAKING` (driven     by  the `va_state` variable) -

- The speaker is shared by the assistant and the spooky sounds from Home Assistant (`media_player.play_media`     with `announce: true`)

- Backlight and amplifier are controlled over I2C (address 0x30), touch is a GT911 (0x5D) > Pins and audio settings    were taken from my own working configs > (`asistent_test`, `asistent1`).

-Adjust them if you use different hardware. ##

Structure

``` my_components/ascii_aquarium/ __init__.py

   config schema (width, height, char_width, line_height) ascii_aquarium.h 

  logic, fish physics, clock drawing crowpanel-aquarium.yaml ``` 

- Space mod