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878 points _Microft | 1 comments | 20 Dec 24 00:29 UTC | HN request time: 0.201s | source

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Can someone describe the use case here? I don't quite understand what its purpose is.

Is this a fully-private, open source alternative to Alexa, that by definition requires a CPU locally to run ?

Is the device supposed to be the nerve center of IoT devices ?

Can it access the Wifi to do web crawls on command (music, google, etc)?

1. IvyMike ◴[20 Dec 24 04:56 UTC] No.42468396[source]▶

If you have home automation, surely you've run into this situation when Comcast flakes (or similar):

"OK, Google, turn lights on" "Check your connection and try again"

As far as I can tell, if you have Home Assistant + this new device, you've fixed that problem.

The era of open voice assistants