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I loved my Google Home when I got it in 2017, but when I got into home automation, I realized it is dumb to have to tell a device to do things. Motion sensors basically replace the main thing Google Home does and a Bluetooth speaker is cheap to buy.

I never trusted that they weren’t listening to me all the time with the speakers and I never looked back after I donated them away.

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JustAnotherKay@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Yeah, just having a microphone in the house with some predefined voice controls which you can go and change gives you all of the benefits of a Google home with none of the Google bullshit.

Especially now with LLMs getting so big, just go set up voice-to-text ollama session with predefined prompts and responses

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- shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  That handles automation, but can’t freestyle questions.
  
  “Hey Google, convert (metric) to (Imperial).”
  
  “Hey Google, weather today?”
  
  “Hey Google, what’s the capital of Kakistan?”
  
  I have a ceiling-mounted mini in almost every room and just toss questions around while I work or play. Or, just ask it to play music. (Which went to shit when I cancelled Spotify.)
  
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  - gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    
    Or, just ask it to play music. (Which went to shit when I cancelled Spotify.)
    
    I learned how to get Home assistant working JUST to restore this feature. Fuck you Google for not supporting other services despite supporting controlling them once it starts going ugh
    
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  - JustAnotherKay@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    It can if you use an LLM as the interface with guidelines instead of rules
    
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