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Does the HA voice assistant support require HA Cloud or whatever they're calling it? The price for that $6/m felt a bit steep for what it provided, though supp

Does the HA voice assistant support require HA Cloud or whatever they're calling it? The price for that $6/m felt a bit steep for what it provided, though supporting HA development is appealing. When I started to read through the non-cloud option, I saw some analog telephone and POTS modem requirements and my eyes glazed over.

blue_cookeh 3y ago
> When I started to read through the non-cloud option, I saw some analog telephone and POTS modem requirements and my eyes glazed over. Confused on that one. You can expose Home Assistant to the internet (preferably using a reverse proxy like Traefik or Nginx, which is basically what your $6 gets you anyway) to make Google Assistant work properly with it.
- c0wb0yc0d3r 3y ago
  They're talking about this: https://www.home-assistant.io/projects/worlds-most-private-voice-assistant https://www.home-assistant.io/projects/worlds-most-private-v...
jasonjayr 3y ago
Where did you see anything about POTS?
- c0wb0yc0d3r 3y ago
  They're talking about this: https://www.home-assistant.io/projects/worlds-most-private-voice-assistant https://www.home-assistant.io/projects/worlds-most-private-v...
  - indeyets 3y ago
    That is an art-project, not the only option. Normal options work just fine too :)
jeroenhd 3y ago
> Does the HA voice assistant support require HA Cloud or whatever they're calling it? I've set it up with a Google API key. The process of getting an API key isn't very smooth (Google's backend is terrible and guides from just a week ago may already be outdated if you're unlucky) but after pasting three magical strings it works very well. It supports most sensors and devices I've tried it with. I've only had it fail because some Google can't do natural language parsing for some of the software sensors I've set up on HA ("how many days until my website's certificate expires") but for your standard smart lights/blinds/presence detection/etc. it'll work just fine. This is the guide I used: https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/google_assistant/ https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/google_assistant/ Everything but step 4.9.2 and step 5 are messing around in Google dashboard but they seem to have updated the dashboard these days. All of this messing around with APIs is probably why they recommend people to just use their cloud offering.
freen 3y ago
Nope. As far as I know, everything can be run locally, given a sufficiently powerful machine.

blue_cookeh 3y ago

> When I started to read through the non-cloud option, I saw some analog telephone and POTS modem requirements and my eyes glazed over. Confused on that one. You can expose Home Assistant to the internet (preferably using a reverse proxy like Traefik or Nginx, which is basically what your $6 gets you anyway) to make Google Assistant work properly with it.

c0wb0yc0d3r 3y ago
They're talking about this: https://www.home-assistant.io/projects/worlds-most-private-voice-assistant https://www.home-assistant.io/projects/worlds-most-private-v...

jasonjayr 3y ago

Where did you see anything about POTS?

c0wb0yc0d3r 3y ago
They're talking about this: https://www.home-assistant.io/projects/worlds-most-private-voice-assistant https://www.home-assistant.io/projects/worlds-most-private-v...
- indeyets 3y ago
  That is an art-project, not the only option. Normal options work just fine too :)

jeroenhd 3y ago

> Does the HA voice assistant support require HA Cloud or whatever they're calling it? I've set it up with a Google API key. The process of getting an API key isn't very smooth (Google's backend is terrible and guides from just a week ago may already be outdated if you're unlucky) but after pasting three magical strings it works very well. It supports most sensors and devices I've tried it with. I've only had it fail because some Google can't do natural language parsing for some of the software sensors I've set up on HA ("how many days until my website's certificate expires") but for your standard smart lights/blinds/presence detection/etc. it'll work just fine. This is the guide I used: https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/google_assistant/ https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/google_assistant/ Everything but step 4.9.2 and step 5 are messing around in Google dashboard but they seem to have updated the dashboard these days. All of this messing around with APIs is probably why they recommend people to just use their cloud offering.

freen 3y ago

Nope. As far as I know, everything can be run locally, given a sufficiently powerful machine.