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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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The era of open voice assistants has arrived - Home Assistant (www.home-assistant.io)

submitted 5 months ago by tifriis@sh.itjust.works to c/homeassistant@lemmy.world

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[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Neat! I hope we can add on a speaker, we use ours for playing audio

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 27 points 5 months ago (2 children)

if you want to use it as a media player, connect a speaker to the included 3.5mm headphone jack and control it with software like Music Assistant.

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 8 points 5 months ago

God idk how I missed that, but thank you

[–] JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl 3 points 5 months ago

It works well.

I have done the same thing with custom hardware, ESPHome, and routed the output to my old Yamaha AV receiver with an IR blaster in the device for auto source switching and volume control.

I can't wait for music assistant to integrate Spotify connect because right now you can only play saved playlist/albums or some recent music, no browsing.

A media player component plus microphone plus voice assistant.