I’ve wondered if they don’t know the data. They can perfectly read the convo on your device, assign a category what you’re talking about and keeping that category. They don’t store, read, know the conversation, they only ‘analyze’ it. F.e. if you talk about planes they may assign a category travel and sell your profile to holiday companies?

I don’t know about this, I’m just thinking that’s how I’d do it if I ran an evil corp.

Just wondering why noone advices to use your NAS for this? Very basic specs but it’s on 24/7 anyway and it has disk capacity?

https://github.com/drndos/hass-openai-custom-conversation This?

It’s not really firmware, its a software solution that blocks it from phoning home. It still behaves the same.

I don’t know about the knx but I believe it comes with a lot of hardware. So I’d be surprised if they didn’t have it.

I can’t get decent voice recognition to work. So no wakeword until I can get a match in the first 3 tries of talking.

I’m not an expert, but if I look around, I see lots of DIYers who use ZigBee and things like that. But professionals use for example KNX. As far as I know KNX is all local, wired and so on; but a multitude more expensive. I guess there are other protocols.

So if money isn’t an issue and I had a new home, I would research KNX first, and eventually add some ZigBee gear.

Also, go for the basics: smart heating, smart switches and smart outlets. That allows the best automations. Maybe add some wires to your doors for openclose detection, power for smart blinds and so on.

Vaultwarden selfhosted is free and if you are capable of creating public facing containers, you can set this up easily.

That’s a simplistic take. There’s a saying that goes something like if you don’t read up, the Jewish are within their rights. If you read a bit, the Muslims are within their rights. If you study the issue you have no idea anymore.

I believe at this point everything in the media is a spin on the truth; for both sides.

How I see it, is that the ones with the money and technology have a better probability to stop the cycle. The ones with their backs against the wall have little options. Violence seldom leads to less violence.

That doesn’t give anything to go off… So: https://developers.home-assistant.io/docs/creating_component_index/

Can you give me the list so I know what communities to avoid?