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Written by Ulf Rompe on 2024-12-22 at 20:41

Just learned about the #Satellite1 voice assistant and would instantly order one if it was available in Europe. In fact, it is already sold out even in the US. They're planning to restock and deliver to more countries in 2025.

It is a locally hosted #ai #voice #assistant that works with #homeassistant. It has more features than Nabu Casa's own voice assistant (4 vs. 2 mics, presence and other sensors, power amp, AI backend) and is also more expensive (68,95€).

https://futureproofhomes.net/

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Written by Ulf Rompe on 2024-12-22 at 21:02

In the meantime I think I should order a #homeassistantvoice which is also a nice piece of hardware, will be fun to play with and will be available earlier. It will also allow me to use a local LLM as a backend in addition to prefabricated responses. The complete kit will ship for 59,00$ end of January.

Yes, this is more expensive than Amazon's Echo Dot, but I think one has to pay some money to really own it.

https://www.home-assistant.io/voice-pe/

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Written by Aljoscha Rittner (beandev) on 2024-12-22 at 21:25

@rompe

But you need a LLM on a backend installed. And the backend should have enough power (CPU / RAM).

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Written by Ulf Rompe on 2024-12-22 at 23:24

@beandev

Of course, it wouldn't make sense to give each satellite enough power to do it on its own.

I'm not even sure I'd be willing to run a powerful server 24/7 just to have someone to speak to, but I'd definitely want to play around with it. Maybe a relatively small setup would be good enough, and maybe we could even let it sleep when nobody is home.

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