I have a pair of them. For the price you can’t beat them. Sure there are better ones. You should get one and try it out. If you don’t use if for streaming you can use it to know what your home automations are doing. It’s easy to cast text to voice to them.

I do this with the home assistant, honeywell zwave t6 and a zooz temperature sensor.

Bathroom fan comes on when I sit on the toilet