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?

  • hendrik@palaver.p3x.deEnglish
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    13 days ago

    As far as I know all the Nest and Echo conversions are quite involved. You need a specific, mostly old version of the device, custom circuit boards… I don’t think I’d try it unless I happen to have that exact version in my old electronics drawer or otherwise know what I’m doing…

    The voice stuff from Nabu Casa should be alright. I’m not sure if they still label it as experimental… You might want to try with your smartphone companion app first (before ordering hardware). That comes with the same voice assistant and you can see if you like it. It requires some compute power on some server, though. Either a monthly subscription with NabuCasa, or you install the addons for speech to text, text to speech, etc on your own server.

    • Squizzy@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      13 days ago

      I actually do have access to both I think, the nest requires a customboard but I can also get a the amazon echo show for cheap and it jailbreaks. But yeah definitely involved and not all that powerful

      • Barbecue Cowboy@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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        13 days ago

        If you’re targeting a compatible echo show (it’s an older cheap one), the jailbreak is actually really easy, no custom boards or disassembly. The first might take you an hour to digest, but after that the process is 5 minutes and well documented on xda-developer forums. The hardest part is reading and then figuring out which echo show you have.