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Home Assistant is open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first. Powered by a worldwide community of tinkerers and DIY enthusiasts. Perfect to run on a Raspberry Pi or a local server. Available for free at home-assistant.io

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How is it going with “Home Assistant Voice Preview Edition”? (self.homeassistant)

submitted 1 day ago by AA5B to c/homeassistant

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For those of us still impatiently waiting, what is your experience so far with “Home Assistant Voice Preview Edition”?

—- I ordered just 2 hours in but the vendor I used sold out in 21 minutes. I just found out I also missed the restock, so hopefully some time next month.

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[–] cevn 2 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah.. if it works it can be useful but sadly this is not quite there for whatever reason, underpowered HA hardware or insufficient training maybe. Like if the hardware sucks it should just take a while and then work but the fact that it doesn’t makes it very useless, and no I dont want to connect to their cloud service thats the whole point of HA is to stay local..

[–] [email protected] 2 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

I just haven't seen any implementation that works for me. Like, I use Google assistant sometimes and it really can't do anything reliably besides setting a timer. I just don't think it's a good way to interact with systems to begin with.

Maybe other people have better luck with it, and it's good that the HA Devs are building a free version of it, but it's just not for me.

[–] cevn 2 points 13 hours ago

I use Siri for this kinda thing and it is 100% accurate for setting lights and timers. Sometimes I just want to talk instead of pressing phone buttons or switches, it can save me from getting out of bed. Definitely not a necessity though.