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The era of open voice assistants

(www.home-assistant.io)
878 points _Microft | 2 comments | 20 Dec 24 00:29 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | 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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lokar ◴[20 Dec 24 05:44 UTC] No.42468600[source]▶
It’s a great project overall, but I’ve been frustrated by how anti-engineer it has been trending.
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sofixa ◴[20 Dec 24 07:40 UTC] No.42469060[source]▶
Do you mean the move away from YAML first configs?

I was originally somewhat frustrated, but overall, it's much better (let's be honest, YAML sucks) and more user friendly (by that I mean having a form with pre-filled fields is easier than having to copy paste YAML).

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1. lokar ◴[20 Dec 24 15:33 UTC] No.42471971[source]▶
Yes, config is a major part of it. But also a lack of good APIs, very poor dev documentation, not great logging. A general “take it or leave it” attitude, not interesting in enabling engineers to build.
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2. thumbsup-_- ◴[21 Dec 24 05:34 UTC] No.42477742[source]▶
I don’t think that’s true. Their docs are great and the community is active and responsive in forums and github