Home Assistant's Year of the Voice Is Over
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- čas přidán 22. 06. 2024
- Home Assistant declared 2023 to be year of the voice, where the team set out to add local voice control capabilities to your smart home with Home Assistant in the name of privacy. But, before it ended, they announced some new local voice control features that you can now use to control your smart home with. Let's take a look at chapter 5 of year of the voice in Home Assistant!
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Thanks to everyone for making it an incredible Year of the Voice! As you showed, Lewis, there's still lots of bug fixing and polishing to be done. Very glad to be continuing at Nabu Casa; no sad music for Mike 😄
Thank you so much for all your hard work this year, it's so impressive how far it's come in a short time and looking forward to seeing the improvements you make next!
Thank you!
Heey, it's you! Thank you for your work on Rhasspy!
@@fredwupkensoppel8949 You're welcome!
@@fredwupkensoppel8949 You're welcome 🙂
Now that everything is complete (kind off), a step-by-step video on how to setup your Home Assistant for voice would be great.
One already exists on CZcams
@@souk-tvis there one in particular you would recommend?
Well by all means dont post the link
@@souk-tv Didn't fancy posting the link then?
Links are possibly/probably blocked in comments.
Dr Zzzs has done a video on the setup process. It's fairly nice and straightforward by the look of it.
I wish it would be the year of "user-friendliness" aka the year of the "not so much learning curve". I'm technologically savvy, but Home Assistant is overwhelming. I still have not dared trying to create from-scratch automations beyond using already created blueprints, and even that is sometimes complicated.
I hope the next year is going to be a year of the dashboard. I really annoy me how difficult it is to design a responsive dashboard with the grid pattern that works on mobile, desktop and a tablet. Right now, all you get is 'wonky' cards with different widths and heights. Aligning this is a total pain in the ass, using card-mods, mod-cards, and unless you know CSS, good luck with that.
This should be a number one priority, as a functional dashboard is a fundamental feature for the user. Yes, cards are mostly OK, but I still cannot easily set their dimensions or easily scale them. Rant over.
Keep on ranting my friend!
A GUI with the ability to add things anywhere you want on the page. Auto sorting and manual placement. Pleeeasassssee.
Do you really need a responsive dashboard? I'd rather setup 2 or 3 layouts depending on what device is viewing. On my desktop I want high information density and I can click tiny little places. But on my tablet dashboard I want to fat finger a giant button that turns off a whole room.
@@VincentvandenBraken I would prefer one. The point is, even building one just for desktop is a nightmare. Non-standard card sizes, uneven columns, not being able to resize non-standard cards because they sometimes break, and so on. Yes, you can force cards to behave with CSS but... It takes ages... Responsive would be ideal, but drag and drop is a must with card resizing and content scaling, so it fills empty space and conforms to overall design principles. I can give you an example.
Recently I found a nice weather dashboard, I thought, nice grid pattern, simple grid design that would fit on a wide desktop screen. Nope... While most cards would stay in horizontal or vertical, grid it quickly turned into frustration when I wanted to stretch a card (a graph) to have it the same height but twice as long the whole kept enlarging and destroying the overall design pattern. So yeah, it's annoying, also drag and drop was part of "What the Heck" month and still no resolution in sight. Yeah... this is a must.
Would definitely love a tutorial on the raspberry pi satellite. I've had problems setting them up and I'm sure it's something I'm doing wrong haha
Thanks for a good round up of the Year of the Voice, Lewis. Probably the most ubiquitous home automation is the programmable thermostat - yet this is almost impossible to do in HA. We have a nice GUI for thermostats but schedules are binary and cannot be attached/modified via the thermostat GUI.
Definitely give us a video of the pi! I have a spare pi 3b id love to put to use
I second this!
@@huving great! Everyone comment for this!
A video of Pi 4B with Anker PowerConf S330 with local wake word would be fantastic. Perhaps compare local wake word performance of Pi 4B vs Pi Zero 2W.
@@derekvoisin3559 yeah we need more info!
I wonder if it would be possible to make an app that is compatible with older phones, that we have laying around, to scatter them around the house, and use them as local smart speakers, interfacing with HA.
Also, that raspberry pi thingy would definitely be a good video, imo.
Year of temperature control, would love to see better scheduling and planing of temperature regulation.
look at Versatile-Thermostat
Please make a video of local wake word in a raspberry 3-4 satellite! 🙏
Thanks, Lewis, for addressing this.
Happy Christmas!
I can see 2024 being the Year of the Dashboard. They hired Paul Bottein (the mushroom card developer) in 2022. I fear that because of the hype cycle, 2024 could end up as the Year of AI.
Yes - Agreed - we need a year of the dashboard - my exact thoughts. Thank God the year of the voice is over - total waste of time. I don’t see anything that I couldn’t get from the standard smart speakers.
Oh please God No! Please no year of AI. That will be another year wasted for a Software Decoration... 😅
I enjoyed today's video as I always enjoy all of your videos. Hope you have a Merry Christmas and a safe prosperous New Year!
I appreciate the support as always, thank you so much! Merry Christmas to you too! 🎄🎅
how about the year of making it easier to use? That would be something!! I love how when I log in there's a notification that HA has discovered a new device on my network but never tells me what it is! That's so much fun right?
I would really enjoy a year of the dashboard. My other guess would be something like "year of the ai" because it's such a hyped topic at the moment
Agree, dashboard setup for multiple displays should be totally independent of each other. Also drag and drop would be awesome.
Would love to see more satellite and voice control setup videos and related content please. Thanks for a great video. Cheers.
The voice implementation is rough. Howver, I haven't tried the whole voice subscription thing, as one of the biggest points of home assistant is to not be under the thumb of subscriptions. I've also got all of my own subscriptions to everything this would need to offload to a server. Trying to go the route of the local voice processing has yielded nothing of value for me since it apparently cannot control devices on the network, so... great? I dont understand how there was a years worth of focus to end up with what we have. That or perhaps I haven't set it up right somehow. It should be the Year of Community Integration. I shouldn't have to go down the needlessly difficult road of setting up HACS to get about 1/3 of my devices to barely function. Or Year of the Presence Detection would be nice.
I'd love to see the video on the RaspPi satellite! I'm planning to poke at it at some point soon, and having an up to date guide to follow would be amazing
Year of consolidation is boring but I think it would be needed. Too many loose ends not working properly. A new ZHA is more than needed.
[UPD] I AM SORRY AND DISCARD THAT< IT DOESN"T WORK - just happened that temperature on "random" sensor was the same at the moment i tried last time. Now it doesn't work... :(
About area temperature: you need to have climate entity in that area (they explained it on the stream), because there could be dozens of temp sensors in area, but usually just one climate entity. So they take current temp of thermostat. Works for me in different rooms.
Don't know though, how they plan to do it for tablets on the walls - they're not assigned to area, especially if it's Fully Kiosk browser. :)
Thank you for the updates. I’m existed for the stream in wake word. Would love a guide on it. Thank you for your great work!!
Appreciate it!
ha, I decommissioned 5 raspberry pi 2W some time back - now they are "resting" in the boxes - I would reuse them as satellites following your INCOMING video about it ;-)
I already followed your video bout M5 but I am not supper happy with the sensitivity of the microphone - lets see how it works with raspberry
PLEASE make some follow up videos on how to do basically a homeassistant replacement for a standard alexa home user setup, i think that'd propel the userbase for this forward a TON! What i mean specifically, is a traditional "alexa" style setup where the user has an alexa in several different rooms in the house, but swapping it all with HA and the HA devices for a local-only voice assistant. I think this is the most common alexa setup that most commercial non-local users have, and there's practically ZERO videos on how to replicate it with a multi-satellite local only solution so a tutorial on how to do that with HA only and no cloud processing would be AWESOME and definitely do a ton of good for the privacy focused local-only community!
It's not replaceable at the moment. At least not for an advanced use. If you just want basic functioning for user defined commands that should be ok
I think we have a little way to go yet before voice is comparable, it's progressing nicely but not quite there yet
For an absolute replacement, you will first need a fully functional AI voice detecting system running for HA.
@@Julian-th7qn while thatd be cool, theres already fully functional replacements without that, so its definitely not a hard requirement.
I have a full multi satellite setup right now using rhasspy, RPIs, and node red. Its just a PITA doing all the overhead of manually creating intents and pairing it with phrases using rhasspys janky syntax and workflow. Its also super manual to do as you have to do it all manually for every intent to spoken command pair for every HA automation you want to be voice enabled. I was hoping a builtin HA solution would streamline this a bit!
@@HaddyMonster Absolute. I just want to say, that if you want replace Alexa or any other common voice assistant with a minimum of requirements you need AI.
But I agree that you already can replace common solutions like you did (It's just required more steps)👍
Thank you!
I cant wait till someone is able to hack the echo dots/echo shows and put home assistant on them. Completely destroying amazons tracking and ads.
Fantastic review. Thank you. I would love to see information on setting up the Raspberry Pi for voice control.
I’d love to see a video on the raspberry pi satellites. I think it would be interesting to see a comparison of local wake word on the pi vs stream on speech from the pi/other device like ESP32.
Your description of the s3 box stopping processing is exactly the same as I'm experiencing. Watching the debug is seems anywhere between 1 and 3 commands are given and the pipe "crashes". Only toggling off and back on the "use wake word" option seems to fix this (or rebooting the Box). Mine is still on ESPHome 2023.11.3. It's cool early demo, but clearly still alpha stage.
Dude, we wanna see it!
year of putting the smarts in the Smart home - i.e HA notices that power consuption is high and cooling is on, but outdoor temperature is cooler than inside. so sugests to open some windows instead :)
Any plans to do a video on custom sentences and responses within Assist?
Wouldn't have watched the livestream if I knew you were going to make a video about it 😅.
If I buy the S3 box 3, do you think in future I could have local wake word detection and connect to the box quite a number of sensors (co2 sensor, temp, humidity, microwave, PIR,...) and of course show those values on the screen? The multisensors I have designed at the moment (based on cheap old ESP32's with only 4MB ram) are using all the available ram (i had to cut some features even). The S3 box 3 has 16MB so I hope it would be possible to replace my current multisensors with these boxes which have a better screen and voice capabilities!
Maybe, I guess time will tell!
I've sort of created my own room awareness. It really only works with a single person. And luckily I'm single. lol. But, if I ever needed to branch out, I've wondered how I would accomplish that. I think it would be possible with an array of data, just not sure how I would build that out.
But right now, I make sure Alexa gives me audio messages that are generated in NodeRed directly to the Echo Dot in the room I'm in (before I just sent it a list of all devices), or if I'm not in my house, I get a push notification from the HA app instead.
Thank you.
Definetly would love to use my old pi 3 and 3b+ as satelites for my home
Oh man, I almost bought an ESP32-S3-BOX-3 the other day because it looked neat and I figured it could do some cool stuff eventually if not today. Of course I didn't and now they're out of stock everywhere!😄
In regard to hardware for your HA voice assistant, what is everyone using?
Thanks Lewis! ❤
Thank you as always Jamie!
Be good to know if usb mic connected into raspi 4 as main home assistant controller can be used for voice
It's a nice progress, however it is quite buggy. I have M5echo, also my DIY wrover board, and both will hand and require a restart after several commands.
Another issue is that it only really works in english.. my native language is "supported", however nothings works.
It's a huge progress, but still needs a lot of development to be a daily driver.
Also there are many small issues that need to be fixed asap: dashboard, per-user hiding stuff, database corruptions, auto-restarts for broken services, ability to see when the last update was actually sent by the sensor, not only when the data has changed, to see if sensor is dead or experiencing connection issues.
I really hope it's year of the energy giving a batter way to automate ev home battery and stating things when electric is cheap 😁
That's a good one too!
Regarding the weird temperatures you get for the room, I think it doesn't get you the value of a "temperature sensor", but the current temperature of a "thermostat entity" ...
I think they said it during the last youtube YOTV event.
I hooope this year is gonna be the year of the dashboard! I have spent a few days on it and still haven't fully understood how to make things work in a way that's fully understandable by my mom lol
And unrelated, pleease fix the Riemann sum helper, it's so frustrating
Has anyone seen anywhere we can actually get an esp s3-box-3 ? AliExpress says no longer available. Am looking to get it in the UK
To say thanjs, i watch the whole OhSnap! Advertisment.
What skipable ad did you watch in full to support the video and channel?
🙏🏻
I would love to see something like mushroom natively in the HA. must have
Tile cards are a native part of HA looking the same and developed by Mushroom devs. Mushroom are now a little bit more advanced version of it.
would love to see the satellite setup video using a pi3 or the pi zero 2w
what is your prediction for 2024 to be the year of?? if i could be anything what would you want it to be?
I would like a video showing how to set all this up.
Is there any way to have a Win 10 computer act as a voice satellite? Merry Christmas and happy New Year!
Hmm not that I'm aware of but I haven't really checked!
The voice stuff requires https, but that’s not baked in to HA. Anybody done a video on how to add that including changes required to existing integrations and addons so that everything stays working?
im waiting to implement voice in my homeassistant envoirment. would love a wake on word stream, so i can start using it in my home and kick my google mini out of the door. is this availible for RasberryPI and ESP32's? ESP32 is a must cheaper option im guessing.
Do you think the remote satellite feature will be expanded to other types of pies in the future? Apple, pumpkin, even french silk? I like some pie variety.
LEW YES WE WOULD LIKE TO SEE THE VIDEO ON THE RPI SATELLITE
I would like a year of user-friendlyness. I have regularly been surprised that battery powered sensors were off line without Home Assistant notifying anything. I know I could make an automation for that but the default behavior should be that HA automatically notifies you about "administrative" things like that. My second wish: less frequent ESPHome updates.
I'm betting next year will be Year of the Voice 2: Electric Boogaloo
Yea a video over setting up a sateliet is usefull
That ESP32 box looks awfully like M5stack, can I install the voice assistant on that?
ooo can't wait for home assistant's own voice assistant hw
6:00 - YES!!
I would like to see The Year of Presence Detection.
So still no way to “mute” the assistant via a service? I use the “AssistMicrophone” add on, which is great, but there’s no control. No way to mute the dang thing with a service call.
2:25 I have the same issue.
Really annoying.
Hopefully fixed soon!
I would really love to get a Year of Automation :D
What would you like to see during that year?
@@EverythingSmartHome Groupings of Automations would be great 👀 as well as some public repository integration where I simply can add new Automations. Also some Wizard like IFTTT would be cool. 😊
Lewis, I just want an everything presence sensor. 😭 it’s been a year sold out😭
you're doing somethign wrong, I just bought the presence light sensor and it shipped immediately.
The problem with all the HA new hardware is that seconds after it's announced there are zero left on the planet as supply never keeps up with supply. Even Ali Express has zero of these ESP32-S3-BOX-3 :-(
I used rhasshy to turn my old Jabra into a satellite. But my HA starts randomly turning on and off light (even when it is totally silent). No logs in piper/whisper can be found. Only that the supervisor turned on the lights
If only there was a Everything Presence "Two" with voice support. I mean don't we all want those things sorta scattered around the house to detect presence? I can imaging them being some good set of ears as well.
I think next year will be focused
About the "Year of the Vision".
Year of fixing broken Automations since 2023.11 , year of adding hierarchy or goups to automations .. those would be nice.. even though id hope it wont take a year
I am interested in a video about creating voice satellites. I think your issue with 3 commands in quick succession is a bug as I have the same issue on my desktop and my phone.
thank god now we can get a year of features for things that might actually be useful voice control i stupid
absolutely want to see how to set it up on a pi ethernet>wifi
Year of the Energy would be my guess.
Certainly a good guess!
year of the user (as in security and roles)
I'd wish they move to 5ghz for wifi but it's getting closer, maybe in a few years I can ditch Siri and homekit.
Link the devices please.
Do you think you can do a tutorial with integrating something like ChatGPT?
I'm a little disappointed that the year of the voice did not include an advanced local TTS engine and local voice fonts. Anybody trying to create a truly "local" system does not want to depend on connectivity to Google or Nabu Casa for basic functionality like critical announcements.
Year of the AI could be a cool one for next year
I’ve done nothing with voice because it means buying more kit to speak to and speakers for the responses. Need a WiFi device 😁
It works with the phone app.
@@bakonjarser5869 yes but you need to have the phone with you. I’d want something in every room which was mains powered and WiFi or, better yet, zigbee.
Year of the Attribute
would love a video on how to set up a raspberry pi as a satellite for voice assistant
Now, if you could only get the parts
Fahrenheit is just a US problem. Temperature, regardless of unit of measure, is simply a scale. I don’t think anyone really has a problem with any choice and Celsius is simply the superior default.
I just tried for the full duration of the video to unsuccessfully find a shop with reasonable price where I could order an S3 Box ...
same 😞
They sold out after the livestream but I believe there is more coming soon
@@EverythingSmartHome i eventually found them on aliexpress, 50 bucks though …
If I had to put money down, next year will be the Year of AI or Year of LLM
Year of the AI. Local LLM, i use chatgpt to help write automations all the time
i wold like to see how to set up a wake word
Check out the previous voice video, I covered setting up a wake word there
Just fix a way to organize automations and I would be a happy camper.
🤞
What will 2025 be about?
I love what they made in 2024 about "Voice"!
Tbh, I don’t see anything regarding voice control. It’s super hard to configure and if you did, 90 % of the stuff doesn’t work
… as long as you have to configure each command manually it’s worth nothing
Year of the ui sounds good but i dont see them needing a year for it tbh
If I'm completely Frank (pun intended) I really have no need whatsoever for voice control, for me the point of home automation is to make it entirely invisible and unintrusive. Speaking to my house or getting audio feedback is not for me. I hope development time is going to be dedicated to other, more broadly useful areas in the future.
I don't get it. Why are there so many additional voice devices needed while there are wide spread eco systems like Google Home and Alexa? Why can't Home Assistant be triggered by a Google speaker/smart display? Google Dialogflow has been sunsetted. Is that the reason? I have Google devices all around my house, but am unable to control HA by my voice since then. And I guess, no one is interested in a need of other capable voice devices..
None of this is practically usable as of December 2023. I love HA but this stuff is so, so far away.
Year of total control for dashboard customization?? Seems to be forgotten to stone age 😂
You think? I mean that's one of it's strong suits is that it has insane levels of complete customization IMO
@@EverythingSmartHome still lacks drag & drop / free resizing etc. Otherwise is good though. ✌️
If they bring out polished voice control hardware that can control my home, give info about weather and temperature sensors and sets timers I will trash Alexa immediately
Oh, this thing is already out of stock everywhere
Did they just lock a cat in a dark nursery room?