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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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[–] AA5B 4 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Bummer. That’s one of my primary uses for Alexa, that I’d like to fix.

if I ask Alexa, it reacts right away, faster than walking over to the switch, especially when I specify a dimmer setting
if I ask Alexa on my thermostat, it’s damn slow to respond and sometimes misses, but the trick is leaving enough time after calling her name

[–] cevn 1 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

I think hosting it somewhere other than the HA device may help with speed at least. I will have to try that to hopefully juice it up. No idea whether accuracy will improve.

[–] AA5B 2 points 7 hours ago

That will an important metric to determine. I know the doc said raspberry pi or similar are too slow but what local control is sufficient. Even among Pi’s there’s a large range of capability- I wonder how a Pi5 does or if it’s demanding of memory or something