Comment on Google Assistant Is Basically on Life Support and Things Just Got Worse

nirodhaavidya@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• onslaught545@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Get an ESP32, a temperature sensor, and 4x relay board and build your own with esphome!

  If you pull the instructions for your thermostat, the wiring guide should tell you what each wire is for (because you can’t trust wire colors). From there it’s just wiring up the relays properly, getting the config built in esphome, and setting up a generic thermostat.

  It sounds kinda daunting, but it’s really not super complex. The only gotchas too look out for are any of the relays that can’t be on when another relay is on. There’s a way to prevent that in esphome. I’m sure someone has made a guide on it by now.

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  • null@lemmy.nullspace.lol ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The Nest Mini is not a thermostat.

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  • sexual_tomato@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    No need for this. A Z-Wave or Zigbee thermostat does the same thing.

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    • AtHeartEngineer@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Which one would you recommend?

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      • sexual_tomato@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        I bought a Honeywell Z-Wave thermostat because I have a more complicated HVAC setup than the typical American home. It was one of the few I could find that was compliant with a home automation protocol that didn’t require something that announced its existence to the Internet. It’s been solidly reliable, replacing my dead Nest thermostat.

        The thermostat:

        www.amazon.com/dp/B07HFL7R44

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  • Wolf314159@startrek.website ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    The Google Nest Mini is a smart speaker, not the smart thermostat with a similar name.

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  • ushmel@piefed.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I know it's not the same, but my ecobee is fine and i think it avoids most mass surveillance stuff. They nuked the API but beetstat.io is cheap and nice.

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  • Archer@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    If you want just a temp sensor apolloautomation.com/products/temp-1

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• kayohtie@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I ended up picking up two of the Home Assistant Voice PE devices and I’ve been fairly happy with them. I even extended their firmware so I have a clock display on each with one being my bedroom alarm clock even. But even out of the box functionality, as long as you can either run faster-whisper on Home Assistant (or another box), or don’t mind their lighter device-control-only route, is totally solid.

  Plus music streaming to them (with an external speaker attached via the 3.5mm jack) is pretty good!

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  • AtHeartEngineer@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    They do work pretty well, I’m phasing out the Google homes in my house trying to go completely local, and the voice PEs are pretty good for voice control.

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• PostaL@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  github.com/justLV/onju-voice

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• fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I have it set up fine?

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  • kayohtie@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I imagine more as in using them for local voice. Without that, it’s still dependent on connecting HA to Google Home. And outside of a fairly expensive hardware replacement module it ends up being cheaper to go other routes.

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    • fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Ahh I see. I’ve been meaning to try out building a local Assistant to replace my Google Homes with Home Assistant Voice for a while, just haven’t tried it out yet.

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