“I bought this as part of a proof of concept lab for running home assistant with a local LLM running on my main PC all over a wireless LAN connection. Meanwhile I installed docker/portainer/homeassistant on a new PI5 16Gig. I'm also running the STT/TTS and custom wakeword all on that PI whilst controlling it with the HAV.
The above works and proves that with the right hardware will be a viable voice assistant but in this form its quite slow at 8-11seconds to get a reply to a basic question or request to turn on a light for example. This is pretty much the same with a 24b and 7b model so I'm fairly sure my 24gig RAM GPU isn't the bottleneck here. Possibly the pi, possibly the HAV unit.
I can't wait to see how this would work with a post "preview" effort :)”
“Can't wait for this technology to get better. The ability for open mic/speaker Wyoming protocol speakers to use local LLMs like deep seek with voice commands and home assistant is great. I bought this as a proof of concept for a mini pc llm but as they get better I can see them easily replacing Alexa's and Google devices in people's houses. A little pricey for what it is, but again with more manufacturing numbers I'm sure that figure will come down.”
“Fantastic little device, works an absolute charm and combined with Home Assistant, the potential is incredible. Already I have some fantastic automations set up such as walking into the bedroom and having this device announce to me that my favourite TV show is available and would I like it turned on. A simple yes will turn the TV on and navigate to that channel. The speaker is loud and configurable via a dial on the top, the LED wheel shows exactly what the device is up to, such as listening, processing etc. Highly recommended, i will probably be buying another!”
“I wanted to play music on a set of decent speakers using Music Assitant in Home Assistant. Works great I evern wrote a home assitant automation to pause the music when I leave the room. The voice control of home assistant stuff is a bonus that I probably won't use that much but some custom responses in the style of Marvin from The Hichhiker Guide would be fun.”
