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Can you manage your house with a local, no-cloud voice assistant? Mostly, yes. (arstechnica.com)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

My main use case for voice is for things that I haven't been able to (reasonably) automate. For a couple of examples:

  1. Saying "turn on the TV" as I'm grabbing lunch and walking across the room
  2. "Turn on/off the stars" for bedroom mood lighting
  3. "Timer for x" is honestly probably the most used things.

It's all fairly trivial stuff to do manually but I think that's probably true for the vast majority of home automation.

[โ€“] Serinus 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Try "start Netflix on the TV". Should work for most services. (At least it does with Chromecast and Home Assistant).