The MiciMike Home Mini Drop-In PCB is an open-source replacement mainboard designed to convert a 1st Gen Google Home Mini into a fully local, privacy-focused voice assistant running Home Assistant Voice . …
… My LLMs serve as the foundation of my HASS voice assistant pipeline While my old phone doubles as the voice satellite Starting with the workflow I rely on practically every day, I’ve got a local voice assistant that initiates audio processing once it hears a wake word, performs the necessary Home A… …
… The final update today adds new starters, conditions and actions to the automation editor: New Starters/Conditions : Oven is running, stopped, paused, or has an error: e.g. “When the oven is running…” New Actions : Voice assistant reports local weather: e.g. “Announce tomorrow’s weather” Set smart … …
… What are the perks of setting up your own voice assistant? …
… That’s a rather low bar for a feature positioned as an upgrade to a voice assistant. Unlocking 1,000 queries a day requires a Google Home Premium subscription , which starts at $10 monthly or $100 annually. Local inference on a GPU-accelerated setup returns responses in a couple of seconds. …
… Related 4 Home Assistant add-ons I rely on more than any integration or automation These add-ons are the perfect companions for my smart home hub Home Assistant’s voice control provisions are just as amazing My custom AI pipeline works well on my outdated hardware Had I written this article last ye… …
… Or, you could take the easy path as I did by turning an old smartphone into a Home Assistant satellite . Thanks to a recent update to the Home Assistant Companion app, smartphones can listen for wake words and process voice commands locally. …
… See at Github Related I made my smart home even smarter with a couple of Home Assistant add-ons I now have a local AI chatbot that I can speak to.
… Related I revived my old Android phone by turning it into a better voice assistant than any smart speaker I've owned This free Home Assistant setup finally made my old Android phone useful again I've used the unofficial HA-MCP Server repo But there’s even an official MCP integration for Home Assist… …
… Home Assistant is still there for you and continues to run even during spotty WiFi or blackouts. Home Assistant is 100% local. Your voice commands, your automations, and your video history all stay on your hardware. …