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I am looking at getting the voice thing from nabu casa.

I have seen people mess witb nests and echos and similar products either through jailbreaking or full on board replacements and I am trying to pick a lane.

I just want to be able to do simple commands for now but if I got the premium it would sit in the comms cabinet floors away from me. Does it act as just a brain and I can attach any mic, echo, nest to the system after?

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[-] michaelharley@infosec.pub 1 points 3 weeks ago

I have one of the nabu casa voice devices. When I first got it, I experimented with it and I found it wasn't as nice as an Apple HomePod Mini. Which is fine but I was mostly irritated that I couldn't set my own wake word. It has like 3 you can choose from but I want a custom one. I want to be able to say 'hey robot' to wake it up.

But to your point, it acts just like the other voice assistant devices. The speaker isn't for music but it's fine. I'd probably want to plug it into some sort of powered speaker if I was using it full time. I need to come back to it and run try to use it.

Really all we do with our HomePods is set timers and to control basic things liek turning the lights off and on or closing/opening the curtains.

The moment I can say 'hey robot, set a timer for 5 minutes' or 'hey robot, open the curtains' is the moment i buy enough to replace all the Apple HomePods.

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