Hello everyone,
I recently purchased home assistant green in hopes of improving voice control of my smart home. I have a decent number of Philips Hue lights in my house, and I primarily control them via Google home speakers. Initially this setup worked well and voice commands took 3 seconds or so to activate. Over time this got worse because of google servers but was tolerable. Google recently forced the gemini update onto my google home speakers and the performance has tanked to the point of being completely unacceptable. Response times are frequently > 10 seconds. This is what let me to purchase the home assistant green. After setting up my home assistant, the latency has improved to about 7-9 seconds. I then set up nabu casa cloud with local processing, and this improved latency sometimes to 3 seconds, but frequently 7 seconds. Today I tried setting up matterbridge because I have seen reports that this is faster and more stable than other methods. The lights now take around 12 seconds to activate.
I admit I did not fully know what I was getting into with home assistant, I am not equipped with any programming skills so I am limited to following guides. I have done as much troubleshooting as I can, but a lot of the discussion I find in forums either has not worked or I cannot fully understand because I lack foundational knowledge in programming. Clearly I have done something wrong with my matterbriidge setup, but all I really want is to get voice command latency to around 3 seconds consistently with the Phillips Hue lights. Is this even possible? I understand the voice commands will always have to go to the cloud for processing, but the latency after that should be minimized as much as possible. I am open to whatever help/advice you all can provide. I would like to get the matterbridge functioning optimally if possible because I may need/want it later on for other devices, but my top priority is getting the voice command latency down to a tolerable level. If that means uninstalling matterbridge and doing something else, that is fine.
Thanks in advance for any assistance you all can provide!