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There is a really popular project (disclaimer: I'm an occasional contributor) that also has an excellent Raspberry Pi story named Home Assistant: https://home-

• oulipo 9y ago
  This is very cool, and I'm a co-founder of Snips we are building a 100% on-device and private-by-design Voice AI assistant and we bind with HomeAssistant https://medium.com/snips-ai/integrating-snips-with-home-assistant-314723645c77 https://medium.com/snips-ai/integrating-snips-with-home-assi... In 10 lines of code, you can have your own private Voice AI at home!
  • rubenbe 9y ago
    Can you recommend a beam forming microphone to implement a voice assistant on an rpi?
    • jimmcslim 9y ago
      There's maybe a chance that Amazon might make their Amazon Alexa 7-Mic Far Field Dev Kit [1] more broadly available (currently only available to qualified OEMs). There is also the 4-Mic Dev Kit [2] which might be broadly available by the look of it. Or you could consider one of Acousticmagic's [3] solutions. [1] https://developer.amazon.com/alexa-voice-service/dev-kits/amazon-7-mic/ https://developer.amazon.com/alexa-voice-service/dev-kits/am... [2] https://developer.amazon.com/alexa-voice-service/dev-kits/conexant-4-mic/ https://developer.amazon.com/alexa-voice-service/dev-kits/co... [3] https://www.acousticmagic.com/ https://www.acousticmagic.com/
• acidburnNSA 9y ago
  I can vouch that it is freaking amazing too. My whole apartment is automated with it. Jungle noises play when I wake up, a northern loon calls precisely at sundown every night, I have motion- and door-triggered alarms that email me photos of the action and can be deactivated with a repurposed TV remote. I can activate dings when people visit my small website. It can turn on my portable air-conditioner when I leave work if the temperature is high. It can tell me if my mom's house across the country loses power or drops below a threshold temperature. It reminds me to do pushups at 8:30 and puts on a techno pandora station to inspire me. It sends live traffic and weather data to a matrix screen on my fridge to help me plan my commute. It can turn on/off all my lights, stereo, and TV. All self-hosted but accessible remotely through a personal VPN. And it uses 0.01 long-term load on my Raspberry Pi 2. Oh! and when I want to change or add a feature, I can because it's all in Python 3 hosted on github. Man, I love home-assistant.
  • balloob 9y ago
    Glad you like it! And now I've been listening to Northern loon calls for the last 10 minutes..
• antongribok 9y ago
  Another happy install of Home Assistant here... I'm using it to control my Z-Wave network at home. The number of other plugins that Home Assistant supports is really impressive (https://home-assistant.io/components/ https://home-assistant.io/components/).
• balloob 9y ago
  Founder Home Assistant here. Besides Hassbian we'll soon launch Hass.io: an OS for RPi + Intel NUC that runs Home Assistant and other apps inside Docker. All management of OS/containers is done from inside Home Assistant: https://home-assistant.io/hassio/ https://home-assistant.io/hassio/ YouTube video showing a user installing Homebridge in 30 seconds on Hass.io https://youtu.be/A_LmQ5OlofY?t=61 https://youtu.be/A_LmQ5OlofY?t=61
  • quadrature 9y ago
    just wanted to say, your page load time is amazing.
    • balloob 9y ago
      Thanks! Made possible by CloudFlare + static website (using Jekyll) and no JavaScript in critical rendering path :-).