Amazon plans to charge for Alexa in June—unless internal conflict delays revamp - eviltoast
Report claims Amazon is struggling to build a subscription version of Alexa.
  • The Pantser@lemmy.worldEnglish
    142·
    10 months ago

    Why would I pay for a spying machine? Good thing Home Assistant is steadily getting a full clone of homes and echos.

    • Flying_Hellfish@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      10 months ago

      I’m waiting for a cheap ESP implementation of a device with wake words, then I should be able to move the remainder of my crap over to HA from other assistants for day to day automation.

      • wer2@lemm.eeEnglish
        3·
        10 months ago

        HomeAssistant supports ESP with wake word now. Requires some CPU on the server, but works pretty good.

        • Flying_Hellfish@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          10 months ago

          I saw some of the smaller push button devices a few months ago, but haven’t seen anything with wake word. I guess that’s something to dig into this weekend. Thanks!