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Home Assistant is open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first. Powered by a worldwide community of tinkerers and DIY enthusiasts. Perfect to run on a Raspberry Pi or a local server. Available for free at home-assistant.io

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My initial experience with setting up a voice assistant - attempting to pause pi-hole via voice "stop ad blocker" (lemmy.nz)

submitted 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) by Dave to c/homeassistant@lemmy.world

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I was trying to get it to pause Pi-hole on request. I'm using Home Assistant Cloud (Nabu Casa) for speech to text, and have also got OpenAI plugged into it for if it doesn't recognise a command. The screen shot is from the debug logs that I eventually found after struggling to work out why it wasn't running my automation.

I'm using the new Home Assistant Voice Preview. Don't get me wrong, overall very happy with it for the price point, but for some reason the cloud speech recognition (I believe powered by Google) is very good at understanding me until I start trying to talk about ad blocking.

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[–] Dave 12 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Don't worry, while I integrated my time machine with Home Assistant, it's not exposed to the voice assistant so in theory it shouldn't be able to send me back in time to stop Hitler.

[–] teawrecks@sopuli.xyz 3 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Are we concerned about changing the timeline or something? Why is the goal to not stop Hitler?

[–] spitfire@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

Because then we would still have Stalin and the Red Alert scenario. Somehow I believe that would be worse.

[–] Dave 3 points 3 days ago

Oh shit this could well be a bootstrap paradox where I need to stop Hitler in order for me to be here in the future to go back to stop Hitler!