Jakor

@Jakor@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can you manage your house with a local, no-cloud voice assistant? Mostly, yes.⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I never thought I’d be the kind of person to use voice commands, but it is so nice to tell it to turn on the radio while I’m cooking dinner!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can you manage your house with a local, no-cloud voice assistant? Mostly, yes.⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Can confirm timer works - set a 5 minute timer for playing music in the family room).

  Spotify does work with Sonos now (I don’t use it but I have my account set up with it), but voice control does not work with Spotify.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can you manage your house with a local, no-cloud voice assistant? Mostly, yes.⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ok - agree to disagree! Just wanted to share my experience with the community on a quality local voice control that’s available today while the home assistant community works on these exciting developments.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can you manage your house with a local, no-cloud voice assistant? Mostly, yes.⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think an important correction here is that they say they will only commit to a minimum of 5 years of software updates after they stop selling a particular model.

  Even then, there is no reason the speaker wouldn’t still work. To me, that sounds perfectly reasonable. There’s posts about a 15 year old play 5 speaker getting a firmware update within the last year even, so I think Sonos deserves credit where credit is due. They have a proven track record so far, but no doubt it’s something to keep an eye on going forward.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can you manage your house with a local, no-cloud voice assistant? Mostly, yes.⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think Sonos gets enough credit for their local voice control capability. It can’t be integrated into home assistant to do anything beyond controlling the Sonos speakers, but I have been ABSOLUTELY blown away by how responsive the voice commands have been. Literally a 100% success rate after using it for a couple months now. It correctly interprets if you want to start/stop playing, can find music by the artist I want from Apple Music (not sure about other streaming services), and will correctly adjust playing status for a specific speaker if you say to adjust music on that speaker only - even if you command it from another room.

  The best part - no bullshit worst responses about “by the way….” Like on Alexa. At most, you get a short response like “good choice” or “ok”.

  Sonos isn’t cheap, but I would 100% buy them again every time because it just works.