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Amazon plans to give Alexa an AI overhaul — and a monthly subscription price (www.cnbc.com)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 5 months ago (12 children)

Yeah I learned this lesson by starting with Smartthings and grew to hate the lack of reliability pretty quickly. Home Assistant and a raspberry pi has been significantly better.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago (11 children)

What are you using for microphones?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (3 children)

I too would like to change from Alexa echos to something else. But I don't know what devices are readily with omni-directional mics and easy to migrate to. I use Alexa for simplicity but would gladly fill the gap with Home assistant and recommendations on good replacement mic/speakers.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Too bad we can't root our Alexa equipment and use them.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

It’s coming. Slowly. But it’s coming.

https://dragon863.github.io/blog/echoroot.html

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I haven't tried it myself (tho I'm planning to do so soon), but check Onju voice, it tries to do something kinda similar.

I hope someone tries do pull that on an echo dot. Good hardware, shit software.

Edit: Update with related links.

The Onju Github i forgot before, tho it's linked in pcbway. It has instructions to set it up along with home assistant and even a matrix bridge.

Onju voice satellite is a different project using the same custom pcb. This one looks better integrated with home assistant and has an actual wakeword system (unlike og onju, which doesn't have one by design). This one feels more like "better private alexa for home assistant".

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