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I've been using Home Assistant for a couple of years (from memory I think it was soon after joining Lemmy I was convinced to set it up), and I have to say they have made great progress. It's amazing to see them double their active installations from 1 to 2 million in one year, that's awesome for what feels like a very niche product.
The progress on voice in particular is amazing. With a Voice preview, OpenAI, and Music Assist, my kids can start music where they only know some words and not the name of the song.
The only complaint is wake word detection isn't great with our accent. My wife swears it's sexist, she thinks it only listens if she puts on a male voice ๐
I'm really hopeful about how MusicAssistant will improve after reading this. I've got the voice blueprint set up, but am personally not wild about needing to use OpenAI for it to work well. I'd love to see some built-in intents for it. I have to say that building automations with custom sentences is very cool and relatively easy.
As I understand it you can also use a locally running LLM. But that requires power my Raspberry Pi 4 doesn't have.
I'm not sure if Music Assistant has the capability yet, but I presume you could have a no-LLM version if you could trigger a search and to play the first song found.
Music assistant has Spotify connect integration, so if you have a Spotify connect device, maybe you can use voice command -> regular Spotify Integration -> music assistant Spotify connect device?
Yeah perhaps. I don't have a Spotify connect device so can't try it.
I quite like having the LLM, and listening to all the weird questions the kids ask.