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The era of open voice assistants

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878 points _Microft | 1 comments | 20 Dec 24 00:29 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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thumbsup-_- ◴[20 Dec 24 04:01 UTC] No.42468176[source]▶
We need more projects like home assistant. I started using it recently and was amazed. They sell their own hardware but the whole setup is designed to works on any other hardware. There are detailed docs for installation on your own hardware. And, it works amazingly well.

Same for their voice assistant. You can but their hardware and get started right away or you can place your own mics and speakers around home and it will still work. You can but your own beefy hardware and run your own LLM.

The possibilities with home assistant are endless. Thanks to this community for breaking the barriers created by big tech

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PhilippGille ◴[20 Dec 24 11:23 UTC] No.42470197[source]▶
> We need more projects like home assistant

Isn't openHAB an existing popular alternative?

https://www.openhab.org/

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btreecat ◴[20 Dec 24 12:41 UTC] No.42470597[source]▶
HA long ago blew past OpenHAB in functionality and community.

Unless you have a hard-on for JVM services, HA is the better XP these days.

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1. diggan ◴[20 Dec 24 12:45 UTC] No.42470632[source]▶
> HA long ago blew past OpenHAB in [...] community.

Home Assistant seems insurmountable to beat at that specific metric, seems to be the single biggest project in terms of contributions from a wide community. Makes sense, Home Assistant tries to do a lot of things, and succeeds at many of them.