Any experiences with a self-hosted assistant like the modern Google Assistant? Looking for something LLM-powered that is smarter than older assistants that would just try to call 3rd party tools directly and miss or misunderstand requests half of the time.
I’d like integration with a mobile app to use it from the phone and while driving. I see Home Assistant has an Android Auto integration. Has anyone used this, or another similar option? Any blatant limitations?
Multi-billion dollar companies like Google and Apple can’t even figure this shit out, doubt some nerd is gonna do it for free.
You are not wrong, I read an article a while (like several years) ago from an amazon engineer who revealed they coulnd’t wrap their minds around upgrading Alexa to the latest technologies. He told about them going in circles and people eventually leaving the company because of how bad of a mess it was. And it turns out they havn’t made any progress since then, Alexa is still absolute garbage. It can’t hear you when there is music, it can’t hear you when you cook, it can’t hear you from more than 5 meters, and even when it does hear you, it responds completely off the track and goes on and on, refusing to stop the nonsense
LOL they can’t even reliably turn the lights on, WTF are you talking about?
Using Home Assistant with Qwen locally. It functions better than any version of Google Home I’ve had. Understands me without having to think about how I say things. Can ask it for one or multiple things at the same time. Can even make it so that it pretends to be Santa Claus while responding. My wife was ecstatic when she heard the Ho-ho-ho while asking to turn the coffee machine on on Christmas.
maybe last you tried it was over 6 months ago, maybe you’re using the old google assistant, or idk, but it definitely works for me
Heh, I’ve actually moved away from using Google Home stuff because it’s shoving Gemini down my throat and it’s been worse in the last six months than it was a year ago.
Everything I’ve read says Gemini is like 10x worse than Google Assistant.
so you haven’t tried it recently
Gemini is a hot pile of garbage.
When I ask Gemini for directions it starts to give me a definition, as opposed to opening maps and showing me the way. If I ask to turn off the lights I get a conversation and I end up walking to the light switch myself.
idk what to tell you, because I just tried it and it works