I wonder if using the 3.5mm jack disables the internal speaker or if it could be selected via software? In theory I might want to leave it connected to an amplifier but I might only want to use the amplifier for music.
Hi. Great videos. Two questions. 1) are the wake words customizable? 2) can you offload voice related pipelines to, say, a server? Like I’ve seen people doing with piper
Totally different. I believe Digi did a video where he evaluated the actually hardware used in a bit more detail if i remember. Its definitely way better then seed studio but still has a laundry list of caveats. Frustrating ones of you don’t like prolonged pauses following the wake word and dislike repeating yourself or it not recognizing entities all the time.
To elaborate, if you're running home assistant on a HA yellow or green, which is nice and convenient but clearly not powerful enough to do voice well. But similar to frigate, can you do the text/speach on another machine?
“You need this!” …Hey Jarvis…..Hey Jarvis…..Hey Jarvis…. I respect your channel and the hardware may be fairly good but let’s be extremely honest assist / voice absolutely sucks. I appreciate the channels whom gave a more fair and honest evaluation while also comparing it to Alexa and google. I too want local assistants but this just isn’t there yet. We need more to go with this device, assist as well as all the local and service based LLM integrations still. We need fully customizable ways words too. Local models “trained” on or recommend as agents are all subpar too. Plus they are all fully aligned/ censored which is just lame. I’m a huge advocate for open source and local control but this thing just isn’t it until everything improves. The reviewers raving about it know their own family will get exhausted with repetitive requests etc. I’ve seen reviews where it just doesn’t compete. I may buy one anyway to support Nabu and let it sit until things improve. There’s other hardware projects that look extremely interesting. Still love the content.
No. You don't NEED THIS. this is a preview version. it hardly works at the moment. this is just for the enthusiasts and the people that like to spend time with their home assistant. it is still very early. give it some time and be honest with your revies
I wonder if using the 3.5mm jack disables the internal speaker or if it could be selected via software? In theory I might want to leave it connected to an amplifier but I might only want to use the amplifier for music.
Do I need it? No Do I want it? Yes 😁 Think I may have to get it.Thanks for the informative video as usual.
You bet. I think it is a very nice piece of hardware when paired with HA.
Just ordered mine.
Excellent!
Hi. Great videos. Two questions. 1) are the wake words customizable? 2) can you offload voice related pipelines to, say, a server? Like I’ve seen people doing with piper
I need this as a doorbell!
Automation can do all the things.
Are there any differences between this and the respeaker lite from Seedstudio? They look very similar
Totally different. I believe Digi did a video where he evaluated the actually hardware used in a bit more detail if i remember. Its definitely way better then seed studio but still has a laundry list of caveats. Frustrating ones of you don’t like prolonged pauses following the wake word and dislike repeating yourself or it not recognizing entities all the time.
Is there anyway to run a local LLM or similar on a more powerful local PC and have it do the voice to text etc?
To elaborate, if you're running home assistant on a HA yellow or green, which is nice and convenient but clearly not powerful enough to do voice well. But similar to frigate, can you do the text/speach on another machine?
Does it work with PoE over USB-C?
Awesome 😎😎
“You need this!”
…Hey Jarvis…..Hey Jarvis…..Hey Jarvis….
I respect your channel and the hardware may be fairly good but let’s be extremely honest assist / voice absolutely sucks. I appreciate the channels whom gave a more fair and honest evaluation while also comparing it to Alexa and google. I too want local assistants but this just isn’t there yet. We need more to go with this device, assist as well as all the local and service based LLM integrations still. We need fully customizable ways words too. Local models “trained” on or recommend as agents are all subpar too. Plus they are all fully aligned/ censored which is just lame. I’m a huge advocate for open source and local control but this thing just isn’t it until everything improves. The reviewers raving about it know their own family will get exhausted with repetitive requests etc. I’ve seen reviews where it just doesn’t compete.
I may buy one anyway to support Nabu and let it sit until things improve. There’s other hardware projects that look extremely interesting. Still love the content.
No. You don't NEED THIS. this is a preview version. it hardly works at the moment. this is just for the enthusiasts and the people that like to spend time with their home assistant. it is still very early. give it some time and be honest with your revies