For those of us still impatiently waiting, what is your experience so far with “Home Assistant Voice Preview Edition”?

—- I ordered just 2 hours in but the vendor I used sold out in 21 minutes. I just found out I also missed the restock, so hopefully some time next month.

  • @cevnEnglish
    10•13 hours ago

    I have it. If i say Basement lights off, it takes 15 seconds and 70% of the time says Sorry I couldn’t understand. My kid thinks it is very funny tho.

    • @AA5BOPEnglish
      2•31 minutes ago

      Bummer. That’s one of my primary uses for Alexa, that I’d like to fix.

      • if I ask Alexa, it reacts right away, faster than walking over to the switch, especially when I specify a dimmer setting
      • if I ask Alexa on my thermostat, it’s damn slow to respond and sometimes misses, but the trick is leaving enough time after calling her name
      • @cevnEnglish
        2•3 hours ago

        Yeah… if it works it can be useful but sadly this is not quite there for whatever reason, underpowered HA hardware or insufficient training maybe. Like if the hardware sucks it should just take a while and then work but the fact that it doesn’t makes it very useless, and no I dont want to connect to their cloud service thats the whole point of HA is to stay local…

        • @[email protected]English
          2•2 hours ago

          I just haven’t seen any implementation that works for me. Like, I use Google assistant sometimes and it really can’t do anything reliably besides setting a timer. I just don’t think it’s a good way to interact with systems to begin with.

          Maybe other people have better luck with it, and it’s good that the HA Devs are building a free version of it, but it’s just not for me.

          • @cevnEnglish
            1•2 hours ago

            I use Siri for this kinda thing and it is 100% accurate for setting lights and timers. Sometimes I just want to talk instead of pressing phone buttons or switches, it can save me from getting out of bed. Definitely not a necessity though.