So. I have a nice HA system setup at home, based on a VM with lots of sensors and offline control. All good.
It’s getting to that time where I’m looking to simplify my Mother’s apartment so that she can use voice to turn on the lights, TV, etc.
She’s completely embedded in the Amazon / Alexa ecosystem…
As I’ve built up a non-cloud, offline self-hosted setup over the years, I’ve no idea where to start with a very simple, but obviously cloud-connected system for her to use Alexa.
What’s the best way here? HA Green? Intel NUC?
I don’t need any LLMs - she’s got Alexa for that… so I think even a Pi would be fine.
Anyone recently done something similar?
Saw something on here about a ‘smart’ speaker in the works that appears more HA originated.
[Looking it up] Pine 64 Smart Speaker. Although very early stuff from what I’ve read.
Although thinking more on it. The Alexa app pretty much does all the stuff the HA system would if your mothers that embedded in the Eco system. The Pine things more of a getting off the system and self hosted.
Yeah, really I’m just wanting to tie Alexa into HA’s ability to control relays, etc and turn things on & off… but I still want it to work when Amazon pulls the plug on Alexa’s APIs (not heard anything, just my guess at future enshitification) - she listens to the “radio” on Alexa a lot, so - at the moment - it’s not the smart speaker part I’m too worried about - unless of course the Pine Speaker could host HA too :)