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I did do it a while ago with my system when I managed the remote access myself and remember it to be a bit of a faff.
I moved Internet providers and the new one didn’t have inbound traffic enabled so it stopped working. Rather than go through the hassle of contacting support to allow incoming traffic I signed up for Nabu Casa. It was a lot easier than setting up the security myself and it made Alexa integration trivial.
So if an annual or monthly fee is an option then it’s worth considering.
Ah, thanks for the link to the article - I'd not looked there.
... and yes, I think a subscription would be good for all the reasons... thanks
This here. On top of what he said above I would mention that you want this to be as easy to maintain as possible so using Nabu Casa’s Alexa cloud integration saves you the hassle of having to do some complicated setup.
Years ago I went through the steps to do the google project/workspace tutorial to setup integrating with google home and it was a pain, especially getting it to allow google devices to talk locally. If it blows up and requires setting up again with the same complications I’ll either swap to the cloud thing(already pay the Nabu Casa sub to support them) or just move to running voice locally.
I’ve been messing with running local voice satellites the past couple months and they are way better than I thought they’d be. Been running an HA VPE in my office and has been so good I’ve removed the google home from that room. This past weekend I used this project to return an old shield tablet into a display satellite. Has a few things to left to iron out but I’m liking it.
All that to say, I’d never do all that work in a location I don’t live in😂. Pay the sub and live your life.
Ok, yes, thanks for the additional info... I don't have an Alexa, but assumed it would need some developer API key or something... if it's easier with a Nabu Casa subscription.. I'll go that way. Thanks!
yeah get a prebuilt home assistant (yellow or green) or a rpi (4 or 5). unless you run a local llm, the voice assistant is kinda rough. mine misspells my name in voice to text sometimes and doesnt know which room im talking about.
probably best to just keep using the alexa speakers. im a techy guy and im finding the transition rough. my wife keeps using the google speakers and it all integrates nicely. i dont think the pine64 speaker is going to be all that much better. in fact, i dont even think itll work with home assistant out of the box. its designed for like alibaba smart home(?). the home assistant vouce preview works exactly the way the home assistant voice controls work on my phone, so id expect the pinevoice to be about the same. i have one ordered tho, so we'll see.
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 :)