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How to start a smart home using Home Assistant(theverge.com)
14 points by balloob 3y ago|0 comments
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by balloob 3y ago
Some feedback to make your project easier to install and integrate better with Home Assistant (I'm the founder): Home Assistant is building a voice assistant as part of our Year of the Voice theme. https://www.home-assistant
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by balloob 3y ago
Once we get our hardware done, this is feature that we definitely plan to include (but probably as a later software update)
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by balloob 3y ago
1. We don't currently have anything for that besides looking at the database directly. 2. We offer VM images if you want to keep flexibility but also benefit from all our work on an integrated system. You can also do a Supervised insta
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by balloob 3y ago
In Home Assistant a voice assistant is a combination of a speech-to-text, conversation and text-to-speech engines. A user can create as many combinations as they want. For a conversation agent, it's text command in, text response out.
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by balloob 3y ago
Yes, that's the plan. We're still exploring different ML on the edge chips to help with wake word and audio processing. One hard requirement that we have is that the tooling is openly available, so that anyone can convert an AI mo
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by balloob 3y ago
Founder Home Assistant here. Let me know if anyone has any questions. Edit: if you want to keep in the loop of the work we're doing, subscribe to our free monthly newsletter @ https://building.open-home.io/
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Year of the Voice – Chapter 2: Let's talk(home-assistant.io)
199 points by balloob 3y ago|57 comments
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Hopes and promises for open-source voice assistants(lwn.net)
1 points by balloob 3y ago|0 comments
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by balloob 4y ago
It’s possible. We’ve published a couple of example apps for ESP32 variants build from the official SDK. You can find them at https://nabucasa.github.io/matter-example-apps/
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by balloob 4y ago
Yep, these are the way to go. Small and with a case, so ready to put around the house. Using just your browser you can transform these into Bluetooth proxies for Home Assistant with https://esphome.github.io/bluetooth-proxie
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You’ll soon be able to talk to Home Assistant without Google, Siri or Alexa(theverge.com)
3 points by balloob 4y ago|1 comments
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With voice assistants in trouble, Home Assistant starts a local alternative(arstechnica.com)
9 points by balloob 4y ago|0 comments
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$5 Bluetooth proxies using ESP32 devices(esphome.github.io)
2 points by balloob 4y ago|0 comments
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by balloob 4y ago
There are enough products and projects available to build a smart home based on just open source code: Home Assistant, ESPHome and WLED for example. And soon you can add Matter to that mix. Product manufacturers could publish their source i
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by balloob 4y ago
ESP32-H2 supports Thread: https://www.espressif.com/en/news/ESP32_H2 That's also the chip that Espressif has build it's reference implementation Thread Border Router around: https://openthread
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by balloob 4y ago
Brought to you by our $20k/year annual membership fee that Home Assistant, an open source project, pays to be a member of the CSA alliance and be able to contribute to the open source Matter reference implementation.
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by balloob 4y ago
They will because there is an open source reference implementation that they can use: https://github.com/project-chip/connectedhomeip
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by balloob 4y ago
At Home Assistant we're very excited about Matter. Here are some highlights for us: Open source reference implementation: Google, Apple, Home Assistant, we're all going to be running the same code to be a Matter controller. Chip m
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by balloob 4y ago
Give it some time. Since the software for devices is all available as open source, I expect a lot of commodity products (lights, switches) to be made available as pure Matter, without any apps, because it reduces the software development co
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by balloob 4y ago
Yes! It's maintained by the members of the CSA alliance (which authors Matter). It means that Google, Apple and Home Assistant will all run the same controller code and benefit from bug fixes. Chip manufacturers like Espressif and Nord
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by balloob 4y ago
Because they didn't. The only thing that Thread shares with Zigbee is the radio. It's a completely different standard.
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by balloob 4y ago
Matter certification requires that controllers do attestation (validate that the device says they are who they say they are) but you are allowed to offer an option to users to bypass it (like Apple does today for HomeKit today).
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ESPHome Bluetooth Proxies(esphome.github.io)
2 points by balloob 4y ago|0 comments
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The Works with Home Assistant Program(home-assistant.io)
2 points by balloob 4y ago|0 comments
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by balloob 4y ago
With Home Assistant[1] we use Ghost for our newsletter[2]. Besides ease of use and great design as article points out, it also was the only newsletter host that allowed us to disable all the tracking. +1 for Ghost. Awesome software [1]: ht
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Explore Matter, the new smart home standard, in Home Assistant(home-assistant.io)
172 points by balloob 4y ago|65 comments
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by balloob 4y ago
ESP Web Tools uses WebSerial to allow users to install, update and manage firmware running on ESP microcontrollers: https://esphome.github.io/esp-web-tools/
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The Open Home(home-assistant.io)
1 points by balloob 5y ago|0 comments
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State of the Open Home(home-assistant.io)
1 points by balloob 5y ago|0 comments

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