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by balloob 2y ago
Founder of Home Assistant here. Let me know if anyone has any questions about the project or the Open Home Foundation (which now owns Home Assistant, ESPHome etc)
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by balloob 2y ago
This is Home Assistant. Everything is hackable. Inside Home Assistant the processing is delegated to integrations providing Speech-to-Text, command processing, Text-to-Speech. You can make custom integrations for all of them
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by balloob 2y ago
Our estimates are more than a million active instances https://analytics.home-assistant.io/
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by balloob 2y ago
Use the voice activity detector we wrote for Home Assistant. It works very well: https://github.com/rhasspy/pymicro-vad
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Open Home Foundation(openhomefoundation.org)
2 points by balloob 2y ago|0 comments
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AI Agents for the Smart Home(home-assistant.io)
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Music Assistant 2.0: Your Music, Your Players(home-assistant.io)
4 points by balloob 2y ago|0 comments
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Z-Wave is not dead(home-assistant.io)
4 points by balloob 2y ago|1 comments
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by balloob 2y ago
The foundation can only work in the interest of privacy, choice and sustainability for the smart home. It is important that we have a thriving ecosystem of communities and companies working towards this goal. You cannot do this with just a
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by balloob 2y ago
If there are people reading this and are excited to try out ESPHome: try it out without writing a single line of configuration by installing some of our ready-made projects: https://esphome.io/projects/ It allows you t
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by balloob 2y ago
One of the people leading ESPHome here. Let me know if there any questions. Last Saturday we announced that ESPHome is now owned by the Open Home Foundation. The Open Home Foundation fights for privacy, choice, and sustainability for smart
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by balloob 2y ago
I use this one and it works great: https://github.com/kbx81/ClimateSprinklerController
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by balloob 2y ago
This is coming in the next release.
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by balloob 2y ago
Thanks! We're continuously improving it and nowadays have two people full-time working on it. If you want to hear about the future of ESPHome, make sure to tune into the State of the Open Home next week: https://www.youtube.
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Uv saves Home Assistant 215 compute hours per month(developers.home-assistant.io)
142 points by balloob 3y ago|58 comments
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Home-Approved Dashboard chapter 1: Drag-and-drop, Sections view, and a new grid(home-assistant.io)
2 points by balloob 3y ago|0 comments
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by balloob 3y ago
Today at Home Assistant we announced the release of microWakeWord. It is a new wake word model that is fully open source and runs on the ESP32 S3 microcontroller. It is integrated into ESPHome and now powers the latest generation of Home As
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microWakeWord - TensorFlow Lite for microcontrollers model(github.com)
2 points by balloob 3y ago|1 comments
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by balloob 3y ago
Everything we make is accessible via APIs and integrating our Assist via APIs is already possible. Here is an example of an app someone made that runs on Windows, Mac and Linux: https://github.com/timmo001/home-assistan
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by balloob 3y ago
That's something we've been building towards to all of last year. Last iteration can be seen at [1]. Still some checkboxes to check before we're ready to ship it on ready-made hardware. [1]: https://www.home-assist
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by balloob 3y ago
That's a good one. We might take it one step further and ask the user if they want to add a rule that certain rooms have a certain level of light. Although light level would tie it to a specific sensor. A smart enough system might also
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by balloob 3y ago
That could be solved by using something like Anthropic's Constitutional AI[1]. This works by adding a 2nd LLM that makes sure the first LLM acts according to a set of rules (the constitution). This could include a rule to block unlocki
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by balloob 3y ago
As a user of Home Assistant, I would want to easily be able to try out different AI models with a single click from the user interface. Home Assistant allows users to install add-ons which are Docker containers + metadata. This is how today
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by balloob 3y ago
Streaming responses is definitely something that we should look into. The challenge is that we cannot just stream single words, but would need to find a way to learn how to cut up sentences. Probably starting with paragraphs is a good first
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by balloob 3y ago
I think that LLMs are going to be really great for home automation and with Home Assistant we couldn't be better prepared as a platform for experimentation for this: all your data is local, fully accessible and Home Assistant is open s
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by balloob 3y ago
Founder of Home Assistant here. Great write up! With Home Assistant we plan to integrate similar functionality this year out of the box. OP touches upon some good points that we have also ran into and I would love the local LLM community to
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Smart garage door controller is no longer smart(theverge.com)
89 points by balloob 3y ago|49 comments
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by balloob 3y ago
I hope you meant Zigbee dongle instead of Z-Wave. Hue devices use Zigbee and can be directly paired to Home Assistant using a Zigbee dongle, but not using a Z-Wave dongle.
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by balloob 3y ago
We’re working on making a voice assistant with Home Assistant[1]. We have all parts done except for wake word, which Hopefully we’ll be able to ship soon. [1]: https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2023/04/27&#x2
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by balloob 3y ago
We’re super stoked to launch the Home Assistant Green[1]. It will be $99! The first 1000 are available today at Seeed, and 14000 more will be available end of October. More to come afterwards. With Home Assistant Green we hope to make it ve

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