Snips.ai - Anyone have it working well?

Hello, I’ve been attempting to get Snips ai (voice control) working with homeassistant for a few months now. I keep hitting one issue after another. At this point everything ‘works’ but the performance is very inconsistent. Just curious… has anyone actually successfully implemented Snips… where it works consistently well? I would like to know that it’s at least possible. Thanks

To be more specific… I’m running snips on the same raspi3 as the hassbian version of homeassistant. Presently Snips only detects the hotword about 1 out of every 10 attempts. Using a jabbra 510 which records and plays sound perfectly fine on its own (arecord / aplay). Thanks!