I am just starting to dip my toe into the world of voice assist on Home Assistant. And I am not a fan of the commercially available solutions ( Alexa, Siri, ect) as I would like to keep my data to local. I have started with the basics of configuring the hardware / software to accomplish this and have enjoyed the learnings that came with starting everything up.
My current solution:
Home Assistant:
- running on its own PC - x86 install
- zwave is main protocol for lights, switches, ect.
Voice Server (offloading voice processing here) - running local LLM (llama3.2:11b), Wyoming services (piper, whisper)
- machine is mainly used to local fine tuning of model
Voice Hardware
-Rasp Pi Nano with 2 mic hat - local wakeword
Now comes the fun part… getting the system to respond to voice! Out of the box, I can perform simple tasks… turn light on/off… ect. but looking to understand more about the limits of HA’s capabilities. Please use this space to share your most impressive voice features and also looking for any best practices from your own personal experiences. Thank you in advance for sharing!!