Thanks for this, I've been looking forward to it. I used Amazon Echo devices during their first 6 months of public availability before I got sufficiently creep

Thanks for this, I've been looking forward to it. I used Amazon Echo devices during their first 6 months of public availability before I got sufficiently creeped out to pull the plug permanently. Since then, I've wished for something similar that wasn't a 'black box' doing unknown things with my data. When you posted about Willow here on HN, I immediately purchased an ESP-BOX (glad I didn't wait, they sold out quickly!) I have a bunch of unused rpi CM4 that I stocked up on a few years back, I loaded Home Assistant onto one of them and connected Willow to it. I didn't have anything to automate yet, so all I got was error messages about missing HA intents. Then finally, last night, some Zigbee stuff got delivered and now, after an 8 year hiatus, I have a voice assistant again, and it doesn't creep me out. After a couple hours last night messing around with HA and researching, I have some more stuff on the way. I'm going to be able to automate my window-mounted air conditioner using an IR device, and that same device includes an RF component so I can control my 433mhz ceiling fan (broadlink RM4 pro, for any interested reader). I have some temperature sensors on the way to assist with all that. Home Assistant has a commercial side with a cloud offering that lets me control this setup from anywhere for about $60/year. It can even tie in to my phone to run automation based on when I leave or return. And all of this is open source, with none of my data going anywhere (except to Tovera's inference server, which I will shortly replace with my own) I also saw your issue comment last night about a Willow Application Server. The idea is exciting, and I hope it happens, I am very interested in that idea. Thanks again for what you're doing. I hope you see success with this, the entire home computing/home automation ecosystem will benefit in the long term.