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Can you manage your house with a local, no-cloud voice assistant? Mostly, yes. (arstechnica.com)

submitted 7 months ago by catculation@lemmy.zip to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] knobbysideup@sh.itjust.works 27 points 7 months ago (3 children)

I've been doing home automation for awhile now. Voice assistant is never anything I would consider. What problem does it solve that a button doesn't do with less hassle?

Also, note automation. The whole point is for the house to do its thing with minimal interaction based on triggers and states. Everyone leaves? Turn off the lights, lock the doors, turn down the heat. TV comes on after dusk? Dim the living room lights if they are on. Going down the basement stairs? Turn on the lights. Cat just used the litter box? Turn on the hepa filter for a bit.

[–] Buelldozer@lemmy.today 20 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

What problem does it solve that a button doesn’t do with less hassle?

I'd sure like to know how you got your automation to function 100% perfectly based on simple triggers and states.

TV comes on after dusk?

What if the TV comes on in the late afternoon and normally its bright enough that it needs to close the drapes but today it's cloudy so you'd like them to be open instead so the room isn't pitch black? Or maybe you'd like to watch the backyard for some reason?

"House...open the living room drapes."

There's ALWAYS edge cases where Voice Control is useful to backstop "dumb" automatons built on triggers and states.

[–] tyler@programming.dev 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Telling your house to go to sleep when you’re ready is much easier than stopping the cuddle with your wife or animals to press a button.

[–] knobbysideup@sh.itjust.works 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I push the 'go to bed' button on my phone.

[–] tyler@programming.dev 1 points 6 months ago

Gotta stop the cuddle to do that.

[–] Mac@mander.xyz -2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Heat pumps are more efficient maintaining the same temp over the course of the day rather than heating in bursts.

[–] knobbysideup@sh.itjust.works 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I have baseboard electric

[–] Mac@mander.xyz 0 points 7 months ago

I have a heat pump.