I wonder, would the ESP-S3-KORVO also work?
That might be a really nice option with more mics and a light ring.
https://es.aliexpress.com/item/1005003980436945.html
PS: It seems to have 3 mics but has solder pads for 6.. Weird
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#132> I've always thought the ESP BOX[0] hardware is cool. I finally got around to starting a project to use the ESP BOX hardware
Is it actually for sale anywhere? Every single store I could find was sold out, and I checked within 5 minutes of this hitting the home page.
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#133Perhaps I am missing something obvious. Where can I buy an ESP-BOX? The github makes no mention. I can't find any on aliexpress or amazon.
You can't. They were sold out everywhere the moment this article hit hackernews.
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#134Looks like you made an impression and got featured on Ars...congrats!
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/05/willow-is-a-faster-s...
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#135Earlier quoted context omitted.
Home Assistant would be a lot more convincing if every upgrade did not completely break my install. Flashed this on ESP I had laying around and did NOT have to upgrade HA (which would have made me not try the project).
HA would be a lot more convincing if basic layout itself alongside config wasn't YAML hell. Every time I want to create some new layout or add something new to my home screen, I dread it. I hate using it. Yet, I have no viable OSS alternatives.
openHAB is very nice and completely OSS.
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#136Earlier quoted context omitted.
HA would be a lot more convincing if basic layout itself alongside config wasn't YAML hell. Every time I want to create some new layout or add something new to my home screen, I dread it. I hate using it. Yet, I have no viable OSS alternatives.
openHAB is very nice and completely OSS.
Hm, I forgot about openHAB. Does it have comparable number of integrations as HA does?
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#137Ordered a box, can't wait to try this out! I've really been looking for something like this. My dream would be to have an LLM "agent" running locally, that knows who I am, etc, that can also double as a smart assistant for HA.
That's might closer than you think I guess.
The thing is that the new Assist pipeline is fully customisable and can use other models as well. They already have a ChatGPT integration which does not able to control entities in HA but at least you can have a conversation with ChatGPT in speach trough HA.
So if you spin up somehow an LLM model locally and connect create a HA Assist pipeline with it and than you use Willow(s future release which should be able to leverage the new Assist featre) as a phisical interface than you are golden.
It may be hard or impossible today but I think within months HA and Willow will mature into a state where tha bigges problem will be the training and runing a good enough LLM model locally. But I bet a good amount of hackers are already hard working on that part anyway.
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#138I never really considered getting a home assistant doodad because of the privacy issues around them. This sounds like a cool project
What kind of privacz issues are you reffering to? Legit qustion btw, I'm not aware of any but would like to read about it.
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#139What sort of hardware is the inference server at infer.tovera.io currently running on? Tnx!
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#140Ordered a box, can't wait to try this out! I've really been looking for something like this. My dream would be to have an LLM "agent" running locally, that knows who I am, etc, that can also double as a smart assistant for HA.
That's might closer than you think I guess. The thing is that the new Assist pipeline is fully customisable and can use other models as well. They already have a ChatGPT integration which does not able to control entities in HA but at least you can have a conversation with ChatGPT in speach trough HA. So if you spin up somehow an LLM model locally and connect create a HA Assist pipeline with it and than you use Willo…
Starting with this post:
https://community.home-assistant.io/t/using-gpt3-and-shorcut...
I've been trying to adapt it to an offline LLM model, probably a LLaMA-like one using the llm package for Rust, or a ggml-based C implementation like llama.c.
It could even be fine-tuned or trained to perform better and always output only the json.
This could be a good fit with open sourced tovera when that is released.
I like the idea of supporting natural language commands that feel more natural and don't have to follow a specific syntax.
It can also process general LLM requests, possibly using a third-party LLM like Bard for more up to date responses.