I have gone down a rabbit hole with Home Assistant.
AI wake word speech control, tablets in key locations in the house, even some views for the Tesla’s browser in my car to control some basic functionality like garage and cameras.
I have completely integrated AI into the system using the Hey Jarvis to wake and running Whisper, Piper and Wake Word on a local Ubuntu machine with old hardware. At some point I want to update the hardware as it’s an old Titan XP gpu and the STS, inference time and TTS takes a few seconds. It can do lights and basic things and also answer to colors like make the lights red but if I ask it to turn on the theater or “Start Theater” it’s not working.
It works about 30% of the time. I consider this a great success. When it works it’s a fast as Alexa if not faster and that’s on an old TitanXP GPU i7 ubuntu machine.
This did take a lot of back and forth with Gemini to get it done. A Lot.
I’m a bit obsessed with my home theater so I 3D printed some light guards to stop the splash on my screen plus automations to turn everything on and off including running a 50 ethernet cable to my Epson LS12000 project just to turn it on and off. Worth it!
Awesome!