I’m excited about AI controlling smart-home devices. However due to hallucinations and potential randomness of AI i can’t put it in charge of a wide variety of situations/automations. I found that the Choreography pattern helps a lot here. By creating small specialized automations that uses AI in a focused manner but is also able to communicate with other smaller specialized AI automations yield really great results but the biggest downside so far is you can burn through tokens if you’re not careful. 😅
Geo you raise an interesting point. To make our automated homes truly smart we will need to go past the need to manually configure all the automations that we would like and cover all the possibilites that we can foresee. I suspect AI will have the capability to help us enable this. In the meantime whilst the technology is still in its infancy with would be sensible to restrict AI's control to non-critical items or have it prompt us to confirm the action it is recommending. However unless we engage with AI it is unlikely to progress in a way that we wish it to.
I added Google AI to my home assistant but put in the settings that it isn't allowed to turn off the alarm system or open the garage door. it works great
@@SmartHomeMakers currently I just use it as a fallback for when HA Assist doesn't understand, which can happen I assume due to my Aussie accent. There is a custom integration to allow using AI when HA Assist fails to understand or its outside of HA's ability.
I am very interested in you setting a tutorial around voice assistant. I will be the first to sign up!!!
Point taken!
I’m excited about AI controlling smart-home devices. However due to hallucinations and potential randomness of AI i can’t put it in charge of a wide variety of situations/automations. I found that the Choreography pattern helps a lot here. By creating small specialized automations that uses AI in a focused manner but is also able to communicate with other smaller specialized AI automations yield really great results but the biggest downside so far is you can burn through tokens if you’re not careful. 😅
Great point ! We will need to see this from a different angle to get a full appreciation of it
id love to see a tutorial on the voice assistant too :)
Thanks for commenting!
Geo you raise an interesting point. To make our automated homes truly smart we will need to go past the need to manually configure all the automations that we would like and cover all the possibilites that we can foresee. I suspect AI will have the capability to help us enable this. In the meantime whilst the technology is still in its infancy with would be sensible to restrict AI's control to non-critical items or have it prompt us to confirm the action it is recommending. However unless we engage with AI it is unlikely to progress in a way that we wish it to.
Agree with your points, we need to balance the pros and cons when introducing new tech into our homes!
I added Google AI to my home assistant but put in the settings that it isn't allowed to turn off the alarm system or open the garage door. it works great
That is amazing! What is your best use case for AI?
@@SmartHomeMakers currently I just use it as a fallback for when HA Assist doesn't understand, which can happen I assume due to my Aussie accent. There is a custom integration to allow using AI when HA Assist fails to understand or its outside of HA's ability.