Can you manage your house with a local, no-cloud voice assistant? Mostly, yes. - eviltoast
  • Serinus@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    If it runs locally, that’ll be awesome. I just hope it never decides to turn the heat up to 90F.

    • Buddahriffic@lemmy.world
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      10 months ago

      Ideally IMO you’d want a system with safeties in place. Like acceptable temperature ranges or durations for the oven to be on to avoid situations where the software misinterprets a command in a dangerous way.

      Something like this:

      User: Set temperature to 19 degrees. (Yeah it’s on the cold side even for Celsius, but not a crazy amount as room temperature is around 22 degrees)

      Assistant: Setting temperature to 90 degrees. (Deadly in Celsius… Water boils at around 100 degrees, depending on pressure)

      Assistant: 90 degrees is outside of the safe range defined by your configuration. Intrusion suspected. Deploying sentry guns.

      • AA5B@lemmy.world
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        10 months ago

        Good question - I have an allowed range configured on my thermostat but I don’t know if it applies to API calls or is just for the UI

    • Saik0@lemmy.saik0.com
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      10 months ago

      There’s plenty of local LLM options these days. It’s entirely feasible to run it in house.

      And if someone can do it… I would suspect that there’ll be a HACS module up about 2 weeks ago…