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Dave@lemmy.nz 10 hours agoDo you have a plan? I have a Home Assistant Voice Preview Edition and it’s great but I don’t think it can do unit conversions without connecting it to an LLM. Timers work locally.
I guess if it’s an equation you could add automation to pick up on the phrase and reply with the conversion, but that would need each unit to be manually done and wouldn’t work for things like currency conversion that needs live data.
Also arbitrary things would be challenging, like converting tablespoons of butter into grams or grams of rice into cups.
Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 9 hours ago
My hope is that I can use custom sentences to send values to a script or service that, in-turn, will trigger an appdaemon app where I can do all the work in python. I’m not sure about returning the calculated value as a response though.
That’s how I built my harmony hub replacement.
Dave@lemmy.nz 9 hours ago
Home assistant has an automation event that lets you set the conversation result, but you’ve already passed my ability haha so I can’t tell you how to pull the result in from an external service.
It may well be worth building it as a home assistant integration rather than just custom sentence triggered automations.
Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 9 hours ago
Yeah, I hadn’t really considered writing an integration but this is more general purpose than my universal remote.
Dave@lemmy.nz 9 hours ago
Well if you do, contribute it to home assistant and I’ll install it 😆, it’s actually a little surprising conversions aren’t supported natively but I guess there is a lot to cover and they will get there eventually.