I went with the BezosBoxHomeAsssssistant. … it sucks too. The challenge to my mind is that it’s hard to make any profit on these things, so it’s hard to spend the dev and server $$$ required to actually make the systems do what they should.
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aport@programming.dev 4 weeks agoGoogle Home is the biggest piece of shit I’ve ever had the displeasure to use.
It used to work really well, and now it’s trash. I don’t know how they could fuck something up so badly.
TehWorld@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
APassenger@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Home Assistant works well on a cheap(-ish) Raspberry Pi. They’re even working to get voice fully capable.
It can be fully local and is FOSS, for those for whom that matters.
Archer@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
If you’re using HA then there is an open source alternative to Alexa! heywillow.io/components/willow-inference-server/