Is Home Assistant Cloud required to run local voice assistants?

Configuration
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I have set up the rhasspy Piper and Whisper containers and configured them with the Wyoming integration, and I can use the text-to-speech service to play things on my media players. That part works.

But I can’t set up a pipeline for voice because I’m blocked by a login screen for Home Assistant Cloud. I’m just wondering if this is by design, or if it’s a bug. I realize I can’t use any actual HA Cloud features, but I’m attempting to run everything locally and explicitly NOT use anything in the cloud.

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I run google home assistant without ‘cloud’, it’s a bit of a pain to setup.

James

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I’ve done the same. I’m just talking about that “pipeline” set up page in the settings.

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Try clearing cache

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No dice. Clearing the cache had no effect for me.

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default_config: in configuration.yaml

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When all else fails, read the documentation (more carefully).
https://www.home-assistant.io/docs/assist/voice_remote_local_assistant/

You need to have:

# Example configuration.yaml entry
assist_pipeline:

in your config (I do not have default_config:).

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FWIW, I didn’t have it, either, but it’s now a depency of, e.g. esphome, cloud, voip, …

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Whisper is only good for english.

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What gave you that idea?

I stopped counting after looking at 30 language configuration options, and there were loads to go.

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Portuguese fails often.

Pipeline timeout.

Whisper + CUDA works but no integration yet