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Same here. I told my roommate/landlord I'd be totally against a Alexa/Google/Siri mic/speaker in the house. I see so many people in tech who have them that it's

Same here. I told my roommate/landlord I'd be totally against a Alexa/Google/Siri mic/speaker in the house. I see so many people in tech who have them that it's scary. I've thought about making my own open source version using something like Jarvis.

scotu 9y ago
have you heard of https://mycroft.ai/ https://mycroft.ai/ ? Opinion?
- Vendan 9y ago
  It still (by default) uses cloud STT, and there's no good local STT that's anywhere near simple to set up. It's hardly any better.
  - kathy-mycroft 9y ago
    That's a good point Vendan, and that's a dependency that we're working pretty hard to remove. Here's our CTO, Steve Penrods, on our STT roadmap: https://mycroft.ai/blog/mycroft-speech-to-text-and-balance/ https://mycroft.ai/blog/mycroft-speech-to-text-and-balance/
themaninthedark 9y ago
I have an interest in home automation and smart lighting but it looks like all the current systems need to be hooked up to wifi/cloud to do anything. Are there any systems out there that you can hook up via ethernet and hook up to your own server? Things like having bedroom lights change color temp on time of day. perhaps stepper motor control of blinds. I really don't know why my lights need to be hooked up to the cloud via wifi for things like that.
- JoshMnem 9y ago
  I don't know much about it, but Mozilla is working on this: https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2017/11/29/announcing-the-initial-release-of-mozillas-open-source-speech-recognition-model-and-voice-dataset/ https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2017/11/29/announcing-the-init...
- wiml 9y ago
  There are several smart bulbs that people have reverse-engineered enough to put open-source firmware on them. They'd still be using wifi, but you could use firmware that doesn't require any "cloud" or external connections.
- free652 9y ago
  Homeseer, it can work with multiple protocols. I use Insteon, you can just buy a USB insteon modem and skip the cloud hub.
- Klathmon 9y ago
  Look at home assistant as a hub. It's a fully open source python-3 based system that runs happily on a raspberry pi. It has many ways of interfacing with just about every device including local-only things like zwave, ZigBee, or lutron. They also have support for some wifi based things that are still local-only, but I tend to treat them as hostile and firewall them off, and even then I don't really like having them as they tend to be made by unknown manufacturers and have pretty shitty first party apps.

scotu 9y ago

have you heard of https://mycroft.ai/ https://mycroft.ai/ ? Opinion?

Vendan 9y ago
It still (by default) uses cloud STT, and there's no good local STT that's anywhere near simple to set up. It's hardly any better.
- kathy-mycroft 9y ago
  That's a good point Vendan, and that's a dependency that we're working pretty hard to remove. Here's our CTO, Steve Penrods, on our STT roadmap: https://mycroft.ai/blog/mycroft-speech-to-text-and-balance/ https://mycroft.ai/blog/mycroft-speech-to-text-and-balance/

themaninthedark 9y ago

I have an interest in home automation and smart lighting but it looks like all the current systems need to be hooked up to wifi/cloud to do anything. Are there any systems out there that you can hook up via ethernet and hook up to your own server? Things like having bedroom lights change color temp on time of day. perhaps stepper motor control of blinds. I really don't know why my lights need to be hooked up to the cloud via wifi for things like that.

JoshMnem 9y ago
I don't know much about it, but Mozilla is working on this: https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2017/11/29/announcing-the-initial-release-of-mozillas-open-source-speech-recognition-model-and-voice-dataset/ https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2017/11/29/announcing-the-init...
wiml 9y ago
There are several smart bulbs that people have reverse-engineered enough to put open-source firmware on them. They'd still be using wifi, but you could use firmware that doesn't require any "cloud" or external connections.
free652 9y ago
Homeseer, it can work with multiple protocols. I use Insteon, you can just buy a USB insteon modem and skip the cloud hub.
Klathmon 9y ago
Look at home assistant as a hub. It's a fully open source python-3 based system that runs happily on a raspberry pi. It has many ways of interfacing with just about every device including local-only things like zwave, ZigBee, or lutron. They also have support for some wifi based things that are still local-only, but I tend to treat them as hostile and firewall them off, and even then I don't really like having them as they tend to be made by unknown manufacturers and have pretty shitty first party apps.