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The little smart home platform that could (www.theverge.com)
submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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  • Home Assistant is now part of the Open Home Foundation, a non-profit aiming to fight against surveillance capitalism and offer privacy, choice, and sustainability.
  • The foundation will own and govern all Home Assistant entities, including the cloud, and has plans for new hardware and AI integration.
  • Home Assistant aims to become a mainstream smart home option with a focus on privacy and user control, while also expanding partnerships and certifications.
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[–] [email protected] 22 points 10 months ago (12 children)

I've dabbled a little with it, but I really want something that's as easy to use & set up as the commercial offerings like Google Home and Amazon Echo. I want to have an interface where I can connect my light bulbs, and have little hockey pucks that will listen for a wake word and do what I ask of it, and play my music. I also want to be able to get under the covers and do something that solves an odd problem that might come up.

I'm very hopeful for the project and I do think it will get there eventually.

[–] douglasg14b 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Isn't that something like what this product is solving for? https://www.espressif.com/en/news/ESP32-S3-BOX-3

You can get your smart speaker and wake words with this. Integration with a voice recognition model and home assistant and you're golden.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I'll take a look at that, thanks. It's been a year or so since I last looked at it but back then there was a push button that you could use but I couldn't get it going.

[–] ikidd 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Check out the FutureProofHomes youtube channel. He's developing a better presence/speaker puck, but the previous episodes get you something like an Alexa experience with voice assist. There's also a good thread in the HA forums about voice assist hardware ideas set up as a contest.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Thanks, I will definitely check out both of those

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