I've been wanting pretty bad to help my Google-Home-dependent family back home with this. They mostly need voice-controlled music and lights. First off, unless

I've been wanting pretty bad to help my Google-Home-dependent family back home with this. They mostly need voice-controlled music and lights. First off, unless you want to really DIY the glue-code, you want to use HomeAssistant (huge community) or NodeRED. The only part I'm uncertain about and haven't explored properly myself is the voice-to-text part. Any solution should be pluggable into HA or NR. Relevant threads in HA voice-assistant sub-forum: * https://community.home-assistant.io/t/replacing-alexa-or-google-home-by-almond-and-ada/152666 https://community.home-assistant.io/t/replacing-alexa-or-goo... (Ada, Rhasspy and other FOSS alternatives) * https://community.home-assistant.io/t/local-voice-control/296830 https://community.home-assistant.io/t/local-voice-control/29... (you can apparently use Alexa for voice control even if it does not have any internet access) * https://community.home-assistant.io/t/best-option-for-local-music-playback-via-home-assistant-and-google-assistant/313652/2 https://community.home-assistant.io/t/best-option-for-local-... (local TTS)