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Can you manage your house with a local, no-cloud voice assistant? Mostly, yes. (arstechnica.com)

submitted 9 months ago by catculation@lemmy.zip to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] seang96@spgrn.com 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I have this setup and using the esp my stack device mentioned in the article. The biggest problem with it is esphome and home assistant expect home assistant to be running in a dedicated device for this to work. The integration uses a random UDP port to communicate with the M5 stack device. I had to resort to patching the Integration to use a couple specific ports to work properly.

Unfortunately the fix didn't last long and a update to home assistant updated the integration and now the text to search response fails for esphome devices. My next plan is to try to downgrade esphome integration to the old one that was patched / working and call it a day.

[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I run HassOS virtualized and have had no issues getting it to use the Atom Echos with ESPhome flashed to them, I have 3 of them in use and a wyoming install on one desktop that communicates as well. Not sure what you might have different. I can certainly see that patching the integration would go badly as a Supervised install will probably lose any patching on container restarts or upgrade.

[–] seang96@spgrn.com 2 points 9 months ago

If your setup allows random udp ports from home assistant out to your network it works fine. Mines running in a kurbenetes cluster.

I used a configmap that mounts the code to patch the integration so it doesn't get overwritten. I haven't had time to troubleshoot more though I don't see why the patch would stop text to speak from working on the esphome devices. The code changed significantly and uses raw audio files now and the only thing I am changing is making the ports not random, but a range instead. The M5 stack firmware appears to be up-to-date too.

Issue on GitHub with all of this is here

[–] fastandcurious@lemmy.world -2 points 9 months ago (7 children)

Can you manage your house without a voice assistant

I understand that this is useful for older people or the differently abled, and this solution is better than most, but according to me, please get up and turn the switch off, it’s not like we are living in humongous houses anyway, I don’t want anymore mics and camera with me than I already have

[–] tooclose104@lemmy.ca 3 points 9 months ago

I have a workday routine setup to turn specific lights on for set stations. If my bathroom vanity and kitchen lights were capable of taking smart bulbs, I wouldn't have to touch a light switch in the morning. It also means I don't have to fumble in the dark, half asleep.

I also have another similar routine but for when my wife gets up with the kids for school.

Being able to let the kids keep a light on but at 1% brightness is glorious, because it's a nightlight they can't pull out of the wall.

Mood lightning in not just brightness levels but also colours.

Granted half of what I said is capable without a voice assistant.

Also I discovered that simulated grey light is a thing and it's awful... But I learned that because of my voice assistant.

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