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David Hasselhoff will not be pleased to hear that - his surname loosely translates as "Court of Hatred"

"Hassel" is German slang and translates to "hassle".

.. but that is new slang, and originates in "hassle" afaik. And I would rather say, it is just used (and written) as the original english word.

Re: Home Assistant is an open-source home automation platform running on Python 3

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I've experimented with both Home Assistant, Domoticz and OpenHab. They're all pretty good in different ways, but in the end in decided to roll my own.

They all have built-in scripting, but it's pretty common to send events to mqtt and use some external tools for scripting. In ended up using node-red, because it looked interesting and was really easy to get going.

After a while it seemed like the only reason for using any of those 3 systems was the device support, and since I was just using z-wave, for which there is a nice node-red library, I decided to do it all on my own. It only took a couple of week nights before I had most of the things I needed.

It did feel kinda silly to do drag and drop programming, and I did en up using the function node a whole lot, but in the end I stuck with it because it allowed me to show the family what it does and how it works.

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Founder of Home Assistant here. If anyone has any questions, let me know! Besides being able to install it as a Python package on Python 3, you can also install it using our Hass.io OS. Based on ResinOS and powered by Docker, it offers over the air updates and management of your device via the user interface: https://home-assistant.io/hassio/

I've been using Home Assistant for about 1.5 years on an RPi3, controlling some outdoor and indoor lights using a Zwave hub. It has been rock solid and never given me any issues.

Thank you for this awesome software and community!

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Founder of Home Assistant here. If anyone has any questions, let me know! Besides being able to install it as a Python package on Python 3, you can also install it using our Hass.io OS. Based on ResinOS and powered by Docker, it offers over the air updates and management of your device via the user interface: https://home-assistant.io/hassio/

Hass.io? In case you don't know, hass means hatred in German.

Coincidentally, it is also a short name for the home assistant software in English.

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The Android client is on F-Droid. Nice. People who don't use Google services can download it easily.

I have been using the web interface on Android without installing anything. Home Assistant leverages web app manifest (essentially, creates an icon in apps list/homescreen which opens the web interface in a full-screen web browser).

Re: Home Assistant is an open-source home automation platform running on Python 3

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I'm a co-founder of Snips https://snips.ai , we are building a 100% on-device Voice AI platform which protects your privacy as it does not rely on sending voice on servers like Google and Apple do You can use the platform for free (we will also open-source over time), it can run on Raspberry 3 and we added an integration with the amazing Home Assistant: https://home-assistant.io/components/snips

Can you recommend a far field microphone for use with your project? Or really one as good as or better than those in the echo dot would be amazing, because that is what my baseline is right now.

We are using a ReSpeaker, and we made a blog post to benchmark some microphones at https://medium.com/snips-ai/benchmarking-microphone-arrays-r...

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I'm a co-founder of Snips https://snips.ai , we are building a 100% on-device Voice AI platform which protects your privacy as it does not rely on sending voice on servers like Google and Apple do You can use the platform for free (we will also open-source over time), it can run on Raspberry 3 and we added an integration with the amazing Home Assistant: https://home-assistant.io/components/snips

> which protects your privacy as it does not rely on sending voice on servers like Google and Apple do And on your website: > The First On-Device Voice Platform Android already has on-device voice recognition. Just try getting in airplane mode and saying "OK Google, play music" or something that does not require being online.

Yes, but their business model is still to get and sell your data to advertiser

We do a 100% on-device platform, where your data never leaves the platform, and we want to power the next generation of private-by-design smart IoT devices

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