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.

  • @AA5BOPEnglish
    4•6 hours 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
      1•2 hours ago

      I think hosting it somewhere other than the HA device may help with speed at least. I will have to try that to hopefully juice it up. No idea whether accuracy will improve.

      • @AA5BOPEnglish
        2•2 hours ago

        That will an important metric to determine. I know the doc said raspberry pi or similar are too slow but what local control is sufficient. Even among Pi’s there’s a large range of capability- I wonder how a Pi5 does or if it’s demanding of memory or something