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The era of open voice assistants

(www.home-assistant.io)
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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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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thfuran ◴[20 Dec 24 06:49 UTC] No.42468859[source]▶
How so?
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1. snailmailman ◴[21 Dec 24 08:33 UTC] No.42478257[source]▶
Im a different user- but I can say I’ve been frustrated with their refusal to support OIDC/oauth/literally any standard login system. There is a very long thread on their forums documenting the many attempts for people to contribute this feature.[0] The devs simply shut it down every time, with little to no explanation.

I run many self hosted applications on my local network. Homeassistant is the only one I’m running that has its own dedicated login. Everything else I’m using has OIDC support, or I can at least unobtrusively stick a reverse proxy in front to require OIDC login.

[0] https://community.home-assistant.io/t/open-letter-for-improv...

Edit: things like this [1] don’t help either. Where one of the HA devs threatens to relicense a dependency so that NixOS can’t use it, because… he doesn’t want them to? The license permits them to. Seemed very against the spirit of open source to me.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27505277