• YaksDC@lemm.ee
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    6 months ago

    Thank you so much for your detailed answer. This is going to be something I take a real look at.

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      6 months ago

      So I got curious and did a little research. Home assistant itself provides several tutorials for setting up voice controls. There are several options to choose from. The simplest to get up and running seems like signing up for home assistant cloud and paying a monthly fee, although that’s also the least private and most costly option. At the other extreme you can go entirely DIY by picking up a cheap dev board for around $14, flashing it with ESPHome and hooking it up to your local voice assistant setup.

      I haven’t personally used any of this as I’ve said previously, but everything I’ve read seems reasonable and it sounds like it’s the generally accepted way to go about doing these things with Home Assistant.