Yeah, really I’m just wanting to tie Alexa into HA’s ability to control relays, etc and turn things on & off… but I still want it to work when Amazon pulls the plug on Alexa’s APIs (not heard anything, just my guess at future enshitification) - she listens to the “radio” on Alexa a lot, so - at the moment - it’s not the smart speaker part I’m too worried about - unless of course the Pine Speaker could host HA too :)

I think Microsoft have been using something like this for years.

I don’t need to ask HA what the weight of a cow is, or any other LLM stuff, I just want to control the home

So, I’ve been faffng around with a Pi Zero and voice assistant and it works fine - with HA doing all the processing in a VM elsewhere.

I agree these 3 devices look much nicer, so which do I go for?

I guess it’s this one?

Voice and Music Assistant Dev Edition

Considering it - appears - to also need Google Play services then I don’t know how that will affect degoogled phones.

I’ve disabled all the Google services on my phone, and I’m able to restart them if necessary, but I don’t have a google account (which has to be tied to a physical phone number?), so it’s all waaay to sketchy for me.

And the API that connects to? Is that auditing anything else of mine? Capturing yet more data?

Not happy, me.

I think this has all the info:

https://keepandroidopen.org/

And their open letter: https://keepandroidopen.org/open-letter/

Wow. Thanks for the detailed breakdown, that’ll take me a while to work through!

I was looking into this recently and un-convinced myself that rsync was handling all the symlinks and permissions correctly.

What’s your command options? I was using -Prvtz for ages, then thought I needed an Aa too (from memory)

And, to be fair, you’ll know more about your setup when you don’t use the defaults as you have to learn more…

Nice. Thanks for the info on the fans

I guess you’re running the Fohdeesha firmware, I’ll have to look into this a little more…

Thanks

OT, but how are the Ruckus switches?

I’m using 2nd hand Ruckus WAPs with the Unleashed firmware and they’re great

Yep, esp. as the Immich team (and most likely others) should be using automation for their container builds anyway…

Which distro are you using?

My NAS is running Arch (btw) and I have Immich installed baremetal because someone’s nicely maintaining it in the AUR… would need a little work to convert that script into something for another distro…

They don’t seem to be very accurate, or check availability… Amazon.com for ~$5 ?

Depends.

I’m not going to buy the lowest priced parts, but I don’t buy overpriced stuff with flashing LEDs and gold heatsinks either…

Today, I’d rather have a RAID array of multiple drives than rely on 1 (even just a mirror) so failures of cheap-ish wouldn’t be a problem for me.

So… yeah?

The humans can’t downvote the AI slop videos? 🤔

They seem to be anti home-assistant on that site.

Even the article linked from this one is a pro-Samsung household over HA…

I get the point that not everyone wants to be a sys admin, but the site is called “how to geek”, so I’d expect a tech-savvy audience would like a more balanced article.

Is?

Ok… it was… but is…?

I guess you’re helping out by absorbing allll the malware 🤔😉

No references to Doom yet?

Thst photo’s literally the Doom3 menu screen…

Yeah, a long time ago I started blocking outbound traffic to all but our laptops and it’s interesting how many things work perfectly well, but continually try to get out… the SolarPv inverter is VERY persistent to get to China due to an overly helpful installer setting it up on the wifi.

I now have a firewall alias to only allow certain devices out and then just update that alias, do whatever (usually updates) and then revert the alias.