THANK YOU for this! Couple tips for anyone struggling... I was super confused that when I would populate my calendar.yaml, it would break the calendar entity and I could not get more than one entity to show up! I also had the .yaml from an old version already and it took a bit to figure out I should fully clear it out first. I didn't realize they would only show up under Developer Tools! I gave it a unique name like suggested and then removed the original entity within Google Calendar integration. I wasted a lot of time on offset until realizing it needs to be in the calendar event name not just the .yaml - not gunna work for me but not a deal breaker.

I am not 100% sure of this big focus on Voice Assistants. I guess they can be good for annoucnements, but I see a voice assistant that you talk to as being nothing more than a glorified remote control, not really what a truly smart home should be. A smart home should be intelligent enough to do the stuff for you, seamlessly with well designed automations.

You can just connect it directly to the Apple TV hub or zigbee or z wave?

Do you know I want to make something like this and now I finally got the right video I actually want to make home assistant like with the wake of word hey Jarvis or wake up Jarvis thank you very much for this amazing video love from India❤👋

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Thank you for this. Very helpful. You mentioned a couple of times that it will be possible to have different pipelines based on the Wake word. Is that possible now, or is it just outside the scope of this video?

I installed PicoTTS for text to speech a long time ago, and think it sounds reasonable for a local solution. I assume that it could be used in place of Piper, or does everything have to support the Wyoming protocol for the assist pipeline to work?

So when you're home, you want to be notified of a water leak, but if you're not at home you want to remain blissfully ignorant until you get home? 😬 Relatively basic when, if, do is pretty comprehensible. It gets a lot weirder if you need to do anything more advanced. I work with computers and HA and automation logic still makes me feel like someone should be paying me to do this work - at home. 😀

HA does make things painful sometimes. Setting a normal delay after an action should be tracked between restarts. That way all you'd need to do is trigger on something, put a 5 minute delay, and then shut whatever it is off even if HA had been down between start and stop. Near as I can figure, if I want to set a timer to stop something I'll need two automation. One to turn unit X on at, say, 7 am, and then a version of this one that triggers on it turning on and starts counting down to shut it back off. Oh, and HA seems to still be in rapid change mode, a number of these things aren't named the same just a year ago. Service isn't a name in there anymore (though the functionality is the same).

Will this work with HomeKit and HomePod mini?

If you have a server with a powerful GPU, you can take it one step further, and add a local LLM (AI like ChatGPT) using Ollama. I'm running a setup like that and it's amazing. In my case I used a TTS that sounds like GLaDOS (wyoming-glados on Github) and a custom "Ok, GLaDOS" wakeword model. I also added some verbiage about using the personality of GLaDOS in my LLM system prompt, so it is occasionally sarcastic and vaguely threatening when answering me, lol. If you have a big enough LLM that can use tools (I use Qwen2.5 14b) and a big context window (I use 32k tokens) it can easily control and read info from almost any HA entity you throw at it.

Nice to hear and see you again. Just waiting to see what Nabu Casa does with a Voice smart speaker. Soon???

can you use a pi 4? or a pi zero w? i have both those on hand.

Not sure why, but I am unable to assign a unique_id and a name in the same sensor. I can to one or the other and I followed your syntax exactly. Also in the new format it will not allow the second sensor using your syntax

Great video just great, gonna copy it and make my own wyoming satellite now :D Thanks Slacker Labs

My pi zero w 2 just keeps hanging on the driver installs. At the make -j4 command (when running ./install.sh). I just get about 20 fullstops until the pi stops responding.

M1S2 Gen 2 doesn't connect that way. "Error happened" each time I try to connect.

I watched this three times to get it so sink in, but it has now completely changed how I do things. Just awesome, thank you

Oddly, its brought some of the devices in (M3 hub) but not all of them. The FP2 sensor for example is not showing....wonder why?

Never owned Amazon or Google stuff. No trust. For me, practical voice assistant is limited. Most of the time I can hit the light switch or tap on a tablet or such do do stuff. Now and then when I am in an awkward spot and need the light on, it will come in handy. Instead of having to crawl or whatever to get to the switch, tablet or whatever, just speak to have it turn on.

Home Assistant time triggering is the most annoying and complex thing ever. Why can't i just simply select weekdays and times as a trigger?? That is almost impossible to do, but so basic automation like i want to do something on weekdays at 7 am and at weekends at 8 am, and also want my automation to work if i press a physical button... That shouldnt be that complex...

Like some others have said, I'm going to have to watch this a couple dozen times more to understand how it works and what it offers. Thanks for the video, though-I can tell there's so much potential here, if only I can wrap my brain around it.

Very good video. Well presented and well explained. I am new to HA and frequently get stuck. I have subscribed.

Hit a wall at Step 10 record a test (C10.1) I'm getting the error arecord: set_params:1416: Unable to install hw params: Anyone else run into this?

Jeff, I wanna say I really appreciate your content. You take a bit more technical and detail-oriented look at Home Assistant than other creators seem to, and I think it works really well. Please keep it up!

Hi Jeff, thanks this is another great video. wondering if you could explain the notify script you setup for this and how it works ??

Hey Jeff you are the script master, thankyou for this great video. i want to set up something nice, maybe you can help me, because i need only one thing to finish it. I want to dissable the wakeword in some situations to take a normal conversation with the assist(jarvis). So my question. Do you know a way how it is possible to know when is the answer from the pipeline/assist is over? So for example... i am saying: hey jarvis(wakeword) how is the weather today. Then the assist gives the answer. AND WHEN this is finished i want to activate the microphone to listen again without a wakeword. SO HOW can i notice when the message from the assist is over? I send the answers to an amazon echo and unfortunately the status from the echo didnt changing when he is playing a assist message. Thankyou Addition: i am using an esp32 as a mic and send the input to nabu cloud assist and the speake is a alexa echo dot.

God I love a random Rex Manning reference. Damn the man, save the empire!

Is there by any chance a way to adjust the output volume ?

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can i use the bluetooth microphone for this project?

I just purchased several Aqara window sensors without the HUB only to come to realize that they sometimes are showing up as "Unavailable". I'm hoping this is only temporary, but does anyone know if getting the HUB and then connecting it via HA is going to eliminate this issue?

after setting up duckdns, ssl, i can access home assistant localy on my android in the browser, but not in compainion app when connected to local url, means local url with ssl not working with companion app

I've been fighting with home assistant for almost two years now. I find that the dev team seems to be focused on commercial IOT devices and AI and way less on DIY IOT gizmos. I get that most don't want to build their own, but many of us do. I probably spend 4hrs a week just keeping my devices connected to HA. ESPHome/Tasmota and the like have lost their luster I guess. It is very aggravating to find that the devices are working as designed and only HA seems to have lost its mind. :rant off: I do appreciate your channel and the great content.

Anyone have luck making this work with an Apple HomePod? I managed to do this with a Sonos speaker, but the Apple integration with Home Assitant shows the HomePods as media players, but they don't play the mp3 I selected like the Sonos does.

This hasn't been updated yet has it?

I finally received my roomsense labs iq and climate. While it provides great data, do you have any idea how to disable the built-in AP and/or change its password? Seems like a huge oversite and very insecure to not disable the config AP after connecting to wifi.

This works perfectly fine with the Aqara Hub M3 (EU version, currently newest), too... Thanks so incredibly much for the explanation! This really made my month tbh, as I had already given up on the hope to control all devices connected to my Aqara M3 Hub - but it works exactly as you showed it without having to re-configure or factory-reset anything. ❤

Thank you! This thing is pretty sweet, but quite loud. Is there a way to adjust the volume? I'd love to be able to automate the volume to adjust at different times of the day.

Very informative, thank you! Love these type of videos, super helpful!

Thank you for the info!

Do you still recommend this motion sensor? Also, the version in your link says it requires the Aquara Hub. Does this work with Skyconnect, or will I need to buy the hub as well?

Going back through this video again because it's really useful. Any plans to do a video update on how you set up your presence detection? Also are you using any of the ESP-based stuff for voice?

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Grazie per le spiegazioni sempre molto utili e chiare ! 🤗

You have been a wonderful companion in my home automation journey, i have gained everything i know from you. Recently i ran into an issue , i have a WH8960 Audio hat , this hat doesn't have on board led's for which i wish to add seperate leds on my raspberry Pi zero 2 w, since i am not so knowledgeable in this field, can you please help have this LED feed for me , it wold be fine if you suggest me here , or it will be best for entire community if you make a video or prove some written step by step guide to have this in action

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Excellent tutorial! Thanks. I decided to setup 4 of these and it can be tedious running all of these commands one by one so I created a one step script to do it all. I also wrote a shell menu that will allow you to manage services and wakewords.

Hello SlackerLabs, Thank you for the video. Your documentation is great and easy to follow. I want to create my own wake word. I followed this documentation. Can I use this new wake word now? And how do I have to implement it in the RPI in openwakeword.service. Where can I read how this works? P.S: Your videos are the

i stopped watching when the " for less than $50" was doubled . 3m34s into the vid.