Well. In my case it will be named Jarvis without doubt!
a noob guide would be great on setting up snipâŚ
My thoughts exactly. A forum search found this thread - Snips.ai Voice Assistant - from questions to ultimate guide
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In fact you catch me in the middle of installing raspbian to progress this.
Very nice housing unless you didnât continue that way 
Regarding SNIPS I use it since ages with my HA system and also alone (some intents are handled locally in snips such as cooking timer, shopping list and other stuffs go at HA, and it works really great !
For documentation I agree but isnât it always the problem with project still in beta and so evolving pretty fast ?
Right now if you use the sam setup way it should be pretty straightforward (even if using Respeaker 2, just indicate at sam you have the maker kit and voilĂ
I got a new idea for my housing⌠wood blocks with led in between and reacting to mqtt topics of snips. Need to investigate a bit more but I think Iâll come up with a new design very soon. My snips works perfectly so far too. Maybe my intents are more complicated as needed as I am not really familiar with all this stuff but at least they work very well. We should make a showroom for IOT housings as already mentioned earlier in the post .
I was also thunking about a small âshopâ for reselling smart devices. Well just ideas 
BUt for the time being Iâll stick to my housing stuff and fininsh those first.
this is my snips housing: i put a raspberry 3 and a mqtt LED desplay into a canvas picture frame (with a wooden frame). this works fairly well, the respeaker LEDs (can be seen in the image below as a blue dot) and the mqtt LED display shine through the canvas. iâve been using this for more than a year now and there seem to be no heat issues. the mqtt LED display says âyes?â in german, after the snips hotword is detected (which is way better than a feedback sound). if not spoken to the display shows the time of day or messages send via homeassistant. if my oven is running, it will automatically display itâs temperature, if a timer is running itâs count down on the display as well.
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awesome idea⌠would u mind taking a short video? I have matrix LED And might include those also⌠maybe you could assist me a bit?
i took two videos a while ago:
Why or more exactly how are you using âAlexaâ as the custom wake word for Snips?
iâm not using it anymore, but then it was a snowboy hotword script, that allows you to use snowboy wake words with snips. see:
right now iâm using the default snips hotword engine, mainly because itâs more robust, has fewer false positives and it runs smoothly an reliably on my mac mini (installed via brew). all other snips components still run on the pi behind the canvas.
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very well done.
what mic and speakers do you use?
So the playstation eye is the speaker?
how does it compare to alexa?
@bachoo786
in the case of the snips base behind the picture frame the PS eye itâs the microphone and the respeaker 2 acts as a speaker amp. i use the respeaker 2 on a snips satelite (in another room) as a microphone and speaker amp. so actually the respeaker 2 and a small speaker are all you need (besides a raspberry).
@david1
for me it replaced alexa completly. it has limitations, most of all a lack of a general dictionary that recognises words snips is not trained for, but as long as you donât need ask knowledge questions or play music by requesting certain titles itâs perfect: fast, precise and robust. and most of all, very well customizable. i use it for timers, full HA control, scenes, lights or routines and anouncements (and i programmed a fart generator â of course). thereâs also a very nice shopping-list app, that works (unofficially) with http://bring.app
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hi @diplix
so I got my respeaker 2 and I am thinking of using it as a microphone and speaker amp. Looking at the documentation I am confused as to how I power it up? do I just attach it to the raspberry pi 3b+ and power the raspberry via the usb power pin or do I have to power the respeaker 2 seperately from the raspberry via the usb power pin found in the respeaker 2?
Thanks.
just stack it up, the respeaker 2 fits on the rp3 gpio pins. this works fĂźr smaller and regular sized rpis.
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Since Sonos destroyed the Snips platform, are there any other sane options available? Never touching Sonos again.
There you go: