On 01 Dec 2019, Mortifis said the following...
What are you using for your home automation system?
I am assuming you were replying to me (the message was to the Millionaire). The main backbone is HomeSeer. I've been running it since around 2000 and am very partial to it. Also use Home Assistant, MQTT and NodeRED to communicate between HS and the few things it doesn't support very well (Sonoff's and stuff like that). As far as the hardware I finally retired the rest of my X10 stuff recently and use mostly Z-Wave switches and plugs although I have a few sonoff's scattered around. I like that they are cheap and easy to mod (who doesn't like spending $5 vs $40+?) I did replace my thermostat with a Nest
that I really like and a Nest Hello at the front door. Oh yeah, pull the video in from that and a mix of cameras using Blue Iris, which also interfaces with HS. For voice control I use both Alexa devices and Google Home, although I am considering converting to raspberry pi's since the voice control is the only thing I have that doesn't strictly rely on the Internet being accessible. I like local control.
I also use an app called Tasker on my phones (I am strictly an Android guy, don't see anything wrong with iphones, just what I prefer) and can trigger a lot of stuff from that as well depending on my activities.
You asked...<g>
Talking about HA is like going down a huge rabbit hole. I tend to spend more time fooling around with my system than I save by automating it haha. Kind of like BBSing. Always "fixing" something that doesn't need fixing.
Now that we are completely off topic :-P ... I've been slowly building mine using RPi's. What voice command will you use with RPi? I wrote
mine called gizmo in php, but it relies a little on Google Voice api (it arecords a sound file piped via flac, etc then curls the response from
On 02 Dec 2019, Mortifis said the following...
Now that we are completely off topic :-P ... I've been slowly building mine using RPi's. What voice command will you use with RPi? I wrote mine called gizmo in php, but it relies a little on Google Voice api (it arecords a sound file piped via flac, etc then curls the response from
I've been looking at Ada. Fairly new voice assistant project for Home Assistant. Only issue there is that any microphone I plug into my pi's is not going to be nearly as good as what's in Google and Amazon's equipment. I used to use MS Voice recognition and SAPI as support for that is built in to Homeseer, but once I realized how much better the recognition was in Alexa I dumped it. Keeping stuff local and private is part of my end game though which is why I am looking at Ada.
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