Home Assistant Voice Preview Edition

Nice little device

This thing is very nice and a great value. The only thing that might need improvement are the mics, but I'm not sure. It seems like sometimes it doesn't pick-up my voice, but there are other things that could be causing the problem. And it would help if they would explain the connection process better, because that can be very confusing until you figure out what is going on.

Works better than expected

Way better than Alexa when you have a fallback LLM. The HA model is fine, but it is pretty rigid with commands. I'd love to see a higher-end one with nicer mics and a decent speaker for voice.

HA voice assistant works well

It didn't take a lot of effort to set it up and load the latest firmware. I first began using it with Piper for TTS. This worked well. I have given it a few voice commands, and it seems to respond well, though we're just getting started.