I'm trying to set up my ESP32-S3-ePaper-1.54 to turn it into my personal voice assistant connected to Home Assistant. Everything works perfectly (Piper, speaker with the Voice Assistant response) except for one frustrating thing: I can't seem to activate the microphone!
All the audio sent to my HA is completely empty—just absolute silence, as if the microphone is completely shut off.
Here is the link to my board model: https://docs.waveshare.com/ESP32-S3-ePaper-1.54
And here is my current test YAML on ESPHome (which is why the wake word isn't included yet):
https://pastebin.com/i1ZUwZwL
Thy
