Setting Up Home Assistant Voice Preview Edition

Configuration Voice Assistant
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I just received my Voice PE today and I am stumped as to how I can control my devices with it. I show Assist is exposed to every single device I have yet when I tell Nabu to turn on the lights, it says: “sorry, I am not aware of any device named XXX”

Is it just me, or did anyone else find it a tiny bit difficult in setting this thing up? I first tried using my desktop and adding it in Devices, but it just spun around and around and around. After 3 attempts, I set it up using the companion app on my phone and was able to proceed.

The box didn’t even come with any instructions or “quick setup guide”. Just a small card with a QR code/URL that takes you online for the instructions. I think they could have a small quick start guide included - that would be helpful for many.

Anyway, about my devices, what am I not doing, in order for Assist to see them?

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this is not setup issue it is assistant issue.

The more devices exposed the less accurate it will probably be.
The base set of commands work ok but they must be properly recognized and that is very difficult task. If you had alexa 10 years ago you would understand how long it took to get it to work.

look at the debug for you voice assistant in settings. Verify it properly heard your command.

if it heard your command correctly make sure you have the assistant set to an Area and a light in the same Area. If you dont it wont know what light to turn on.

The Voice assistants for HA are improving but still need patience. if your using HA cloud for STT that improves things as it cleans up bad command it seams but even then it is not perfect.