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Hey Chuck, I have an issue with people coming by my house for made up reasons and then somehow using their cellphones and somehow getting access to either my wifi or they are setting up some sort of wifi tunnel. I think my live in girlfriend is somehow helping them. Now I have very limited knowledge of how WIFI and the internet works, all I know is far too many people have information about me that they should not have.
Creating a custom voice is a multi-step process. I previously cloned a female English voice and adapted it for Brazilian Portuguese and Italian, generating .onnx models for each. My method involved creating a dataset of sentences using a text-to-speech (TTS) model already trained on my target voice. This dataset was then used to train my custom voices using substantial computing resources. Specifically, I believe I used a fork of Coqui TTS to generate the sentences, running it on a LightningAI server equipped with four NVIDIA L40S GPUs. The .onnx models were then created following Piper's guidelines. More training leads to better voice quality, but requires a significant time investment.
Finally, you have now replicated the journey i take with homelabbing... Pure pain and suffering on every single step of the journey just to get a sort of working result and most of the time doesn't even work.
Wait, you are taking linus advices seriously? Bruh you have a problem. Anyone with an above average IT knowledge know his channel wnd content are for entertainment, and nobody should try to use or implement anything that comes from that channel, rip.
@@theangelofspace155 well, just a counter point, I decided to build my home lab because of a Linus video. Then went to HH, Techno Tim, Raid Owl, Wendel both Jeffs, and some very good HA channels. I know better than to look to Linus for how to. But his channel is pretty good for inspiration..... and of course entertainment as you said.
Hi Chuck. Thanks for the end-to-end on using Voice Assistance. BTW, when you activated the wake-up word "Hey MyCroft", then demonstrate using "OK MyCroft", it's not surprising when it doesn't work 😉😊
Dude. I have followed multiple guides. Banging my head. I noticed you didn't install a wakeword service on the satellite, which I was doing. I just omitted all that stuff and it worked flawlessly! Thank you!
OMG. Paulus Schoutsen and Mike Hansen have been talking about this since last year, the "Year of the Voice" You have inspired me to do it! Thanks, Chuck!
YESSS more home assistant videos please 🙌 I won't have a chance to build the things I want until the summer (2025) so hopefully a couple more home assistant videos drop between now and then so I can re-watch them!!
@@ronilevarez901 this us so inaccurate! The robots will be kidnapping humans and selling them
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Mycroft AI business went down but the software got forked and its actively maintained by the Open Voice OS and Neon communities. I'm running my Open Voice OS on my laptop (but it can run on Raspberry Pi as well) with a local LLM! Thanks for showing people that there is something else than the big Alexa and others!
You are not old enough for this reference, but I plan to train mine to say "compliance" or "unable to comply" as the reply for executing tasks. Thank you for these videos - I'm right behind you! Have been looking for this for years now.
Great video! One important thing to note: If you want another model instead of llama just make sure it supports Tool calling, it's tagged with "tools" on Ollama models list.
This video and your previous one are absolutely wonderful. I love the fact that everything runs locally without an external 'cloud'. Looking forward to the upcoming videos.
I completely replaced Alexa with HA Assist 3 months ago. At that point it was ready for maybe 30 percents, but i wanted to give myself a reason to speed up the development. Now it does everything we wanted from Alexa and more.
Lack of a ready-to-go voice assistant, and hardware for it, is the reason I've not been able to commit to Home Assistant. Rhasspy may almost have the software, but the cost to build dedicated devices to replace the 8 Google Home receivers around my house is somewhat impractical. However, this video is the best solution I've seen so far!
No kidding. I've gone from expecting to get things done in minutes in windows to being happy I blew a whole weekend getting something running in Linux. These people really love their dos console window. It's like they skipped the GUI revolution of Windows and just made a 64 bit multi-threaded version of DOS.
Bro, I had to pause the video at 5min to write this immediately. I have been research in my own spare time for the past 3 months on HA and intergrating Voice, AI and control with absolutely no luck. You seem to have very eloquently explained exactly what I need to know (without watching the whole video yet). seems I can pull the trigger on buying stuff for this project and get to it. I'll watch the rest of this, then your HA tutorial and it looks like you've got a sub.
If you want to build your own hockey puck/snowball, someone already did that, too. I don't recall what all it entails, as I found this article like 2 months ago, but it uses an ESP32 instead of a Raspberry Pi to connect to Home Assistant. Hope this helps someone. Great work, Chuck!
Inspiring video! With home assistant I bet you can up the spouse approval but having your voice assistant say something like "let me think about that" and then process the question.This would pad the wait time for the AI to process the request.
Man! Last month I started building my own APIs using node red and LLama. Now I'm there and controlling many things sending backend calls to my api connected to my Arduino board, That makes my workflow pretty much easier! Thanks!
A lot of work went into this video. Well done. This is a real gem. I have the same pi hat and gave up trying to get it working. Think I threw it against a wall. Going to give it another shot if it still works. Thank you!!
This is amazing you give great step by step description and easy to follow along guide... I am so surprised by the things home assistant is capable of..Please keep the home assistant videos coming
Great stuff Chuck! Thanks for this walkthrough, I've been struggling to figure out how all these things fit together. FYI: When I first installed all the Add-Ons Piper and Whisper were not picked up automatically by the Wyoming Protocol Service. Re-installing them fixed it.
33:35 It might be a good idea adding something like "be concize in the response" to the LLM system prompt so that you do not get crazy long responces read out 🤣
Dude, right on, right on. Use to watch your videos all the time, and now I'm stuck again trying to learn some voice recognition stuff the past few weeks, and you just came in to save the day! Thank you!
Awesome video Chuck.. I'm actually in the process of adding features to my HA installation, so I'm really loving these ideas. Especially when it involves replacing Alexa with something that runs locally.
"I don't care how much coffee it takes; I'm going to do it!" LOL This is the second video of yours that I have watched, and I now understand why you have over 4 million subscribers. Pretty amazing stuff. You really know your coffee. Keep up the great work; you won another subscriber. I can't wait to set up the voice assistant on my HA system.
That is not a Gen 1 Alexa. My daughter purchased me a Gen 1 Alexa for Christmas the year they come out. I still have it running in my bedroom. We moved across country last year. The unit is paired, but it is not possible to re-pair it. Therefore my local weather and time on the device are wrong. Thank you for this video Chuck. My wife is handicapped and we use Alexa's all over the place and I wanted to replace them with my own setup. For bonus points, we listen to music with an MPD client/server setup. If there was someway to voice control our local mpd collection that would be awesome!
Something you might try to add to these videos using docker is using compose or even portainer. Makes managing docker in general easier, especially if you are doing multiple containers as it helps visualize things a lot better.
Good luck with changing the AI voice. I was watching the STNG episode, "Skin of Evil," and thought the voice of Armus would be funny for an voice assistant.
Hey, one thing I did was the use of Assist and GPT in the same command, Assist is waaaay faster to respond to obvious commmand like "turn on the light", but it cannot do AI, so I did a nodered script that use assist and if it fails goes to GPT, it works quite well to be fair
Very cool Chuck, I am just now getting started with your academy (the free version) I wish I found your videos sooner nonetheless it is a great time to be alive. I am an electronics technician retired USN my interests now are in Ai and learning IT to become a network engineer or at least an aspiring one. I will be running my own corporation as well as it is just now starting up. A lot of what I have learned in my time (just being alive) is I dont need to know everything to be a leader in any field just a good headhunter. To do this I must know more than the basics and for this type of business my mind is like a dry sponge. Your videos are inspiring and easy to follow. I have come up with my own ideas about practical use of AI and now I see many people have already been working on this. I am encouraged as most people still dont know this is the perfect time to be in IT Networking and AI development. Thanks to you my journey is becoming much smoother. Thanks and I will be subscribing and following you on youtube.
I'm speechless. I've discovered your channel because of this video and I can't even follow your speed just watching you writing code XD. I'll try to follow your steps just to achieve the dream of having my own "BT-7274" as an assistant. Thank you so much for shedding light on this topic and I'll be waiting for your "Voice change" tutorial. I've already extracted the BT voice lines from Titanfall 2 but I wasn't sure of some steps explained in the documentation. Hopefully, you will know how to do it. And again, thank you so much for this content. New sub!!!
Chuck you can make aliases of your devices in home assistant and call the what ever and expose them to your pipeline. It's kind of a pain in the butt and a long process, but at least you could call your lamp whatever you wanted to when you talked to your voice Assistant
Man, I've just bought HA Yellow , and got to look into this vid - awesome. Gonna bookmark it and implement tomorrow. Planning to run Ollama thing on my Z420 server, in a separate VM.
I like how he says that he does not want some other party to have his data, but 80 percent of his other videos are building something that can run flawlessly on a local machine, but he makes it online on some random VM somewhere in the world :)
One of the commands we use with Alexa is to start timers. Sometimes we have multiple timers running at the same time. Can you show an example of starting a 2 minute timer, along with a spoken phrase of "your timer is done" (or "your egg timer is done" if you've given the timer a name of egg). We tell Alexa to start a timer by saying "alexa, start a 5 minute oven timer". It is fine to have Terry announce completion once and turn off, as opposed to alexa that continues to alert until you tell it to cancel. Also need a way to cancel a timer in progress.
Love your work Chuck. You mentioned that you don’t use frigate. I would love to see it though with home assistant and local AI, when object, person detected etc it send an alert with AI generated description of what it sees
Totally awesome. My home assistant is already running on docker. Let's hope that my good old QNAP is able to run ollama. But since HA addons are also docker containers inside HAOS, you just need to run your HA on a better HW like a mini pc
34:10 Would have been super useful to have a side-by-side or timed comparasing of the 3 setups! all on raspberry vs offload to laptop vs offload to terry. That way you get an idea on what is worse case, average and best case scenario! A followup would be nice.
I have tried doing this and it was so slow and decided not to use it. I had no idea you could off load whisper and piper - GENIUS!! And the Ollama for an LLM - I need to read more. Please more of these if you can!! Thank you!! One question - instead of a GPU could a TPU work like google Corel Accelerator? But thank you - more please!!
@@MrThesoulripper13 @trekbear69 current Hailo/Coral TPUs are sadly ONLY good for AI Vision, even just for object detection Frigate BUT NOT for Training, for LLM You need nVidia GPUs, however good news Ollama can now supports newer Intel GPU Iris as well, whisper NOT yet
Looking forward for someone who gonna make some PCBs to replace some echo devices guts or, maybe, some firmware replacement. The lights, mics and speakers are better, form factor too. All have built-in wifi and some have the screens/displays. Just the cloud/IA stuff that sucks. Taking back the hardware we already paid for would be amazing
This. My dream smart speaker would be some HA-enabled board like esp32 or pico inside a HomePod mini, because those speakers are mind-blowing, they have a pretty clean, full sound with incredibly fat low frequencies considering the small form factor. Maybe even go full Frankenstein and swap the mic for the one that's in Google's Nest mini, this little guy impresses me with how far it can catch my voice from. It would definitely not be cheap tho and quite hard to do, if at all possible. But hey, one can dream, right?
22:32 Can confirm that ollama binds its port to 127.0.0.1 on debian 12 as well and you need to configure it to bind to 0.0.0.0 or any specific network interface as well if you want to access it from other machines.
Very cool, thanks for sharing. Your videos are very informative, entertaining and great energy! Question: How do you access your AI services from external networks? Or do you only use it at home?
lol, level 1 where he's trying to turn back on "chuck lamp light" by typing the command really reminded me of playing one of those old school text adventure games like Zork.
thank you for doing these... been using Home Assistant for a long time, but all the people i watch videos from aren't tech tech... other than the HA stuff. Sometimes their "how to" videos skip a lot of stuff.
My brain just melted when I just noticed I could possibly re use the speakers I don’t use on my 3 seater excalibur / melendez couch. One for the pi / mic, one for the speaker
Awesome video !! Was waiting for something like this a while! I would also really want to see a setup of snapcast on all the satellites to get rid of all the Alexa Sonos setups...
Super excited if he gets the Terry voice going. I've been wanting to train mine to sound like a transylvanian lab assistant. I named him Igor. Id like to get as close to Marty Feldman's character from Young Frankenstein as possible.
Dude I first came across your stuff via the video on Fabric of all things... but this video is just great. Your editing sessions must be ridiculous. The attention to the most minute details (like the little aside to the camera just for the line "we're in.") is almost hypnotic. I had to double check to see that I wasn't on 1.5 speed (which I often am... but not here.) Anyway I'm hoping to set something similar up! I've been looking at someone else's work (sorry can't remember name) that calls his "Ada" and uses the realtime api for GPT4o... seems fast and good as well, but suuuuuper expensive to run much. Sadly I don't have a spare machine with enough heft to run Llama very well. T_T Anyway great work and can't wait for the next one! Once you have the voice go ahead and use something like HEDRA for a realtime video of him on the screen!
Very nice video, all that is (probably) needed to use voice with HA in one place, I'm finally going to give it a try :) I laughed out loud at the long Batman answer, But I had higher expectations than to install samba just to transfer 2 files! 😀
1:21 That's the first widely available version of the dot, but it's the 2nd model overall. The very first was only available to purchase using a voice command with the original pringles can sized echo. It was all metal and only had the wake and mute buttons because the volume was controlled by twisting the top. They were pretty awesome, but they sounded like crap and they were inordinately expensive compared to what they charge for a dot nowadays. I paid $80 IIRC.
It is AAAAWESOMEEEE!!! And by the way you should ask for a short flash but you should say a slow flash because the short might be of order of miliseconds and you would not see anything.
Chuck, this was epic and I love that you started on a pi and then evolved the setup and off loaded services to a faster machine. But why not offload home assistant to Terry as well as a final step?
I have HA on a Dell Wyze 5070 because when I fiddle in my homelad I still want the automations to work (lights, aircon and stuff). That's why I keep it seperate from machines I fiddle on a lot.
Instead of offloading to your laptop, I'm curious if the 26tops AI Hat+ on a raspberry would allow us to keep performance and just have it all running in one place.
If you eventually decide to containerize Home Assistant and move it to Docker or better yet Kubernetes (would probably make for a good video), just be aware that Add-ons are more limited. You can still install them, but they need to be installed into their own containers and cannot be installed through the HA Add-ons screen, so there's a few more hoops to jump through.
Why would you do that?? Install Proxmox on the machine and make a HA VM, if you need GPU acceleration you can easily just passthrough it... DO NOT use docker for HA...
Can I install all this whisper stuff in a docker? I have Home assistant running on my synology, but I want to replace the alexas with raspberry pi's. Or, should I jsut run it all off the raspberry pi?
@@TuckerDansieFilms Because its more of a PITB for doing add-ons in docker Though I do run it in docker myself - but I also don't really use add-ons...I think I use one but then I might also have just given up too
I need to build something like my own Larry lol. On a stack of pi 5’s I’ve got a similar much smaller setup focusing on 3b llms. Very interesting how the two pi’s working together have sped up the response time of the llm in home assistant. Normally the pi alone in the terminal maxed out cpu and ram but it’s mild now. Have two more pi 5’s joining the team hopefully next week. Had the same issue with the url, dropped the webui for this. Love all your videos.
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I’m replacing Amazon Alexa with my own, completely local AI voice assistant!! The amazing part is that it cleanly integrates with my home automation system, Home Assistant. Also, it’s using local LLMs like llama3.2 with Ollama. I think it’s finally time for you to replace your voice assistant with something local.
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Hey Chuck, will a zimaboard work for this?
Hey Chuck, I have an issue with people coming by my house for made up reasons and then somehow using their cellphones and somehow getting access to either my wifi or they are setting up some sort of wifi tunnel. I think my live in girlfriend is somehow helping them. Now I have very limited knowledge of how WIFI and the internet works, all I know is far too many people have information about me that they should not have.
Creating a custom voice is a multi-step process. I previously cloned a female English voice and adapted it for Brazilian Portuguese and Italian, generating .onnx models for each. My method involved creating a dataset of sentences using a text-to-speech (TTS) model already trained on my target voice. This dataset was then used to train my custom voices using substantial computing resources. Specifically, I believe I used a fork of Coqui TTS to generate the sentences, running it on a LightningAI server equipped with four NVIDIA L40S GPUs. The .onnx models were then created following Piper's guidelines.
More training leads to better voice quality, but requires a significant time investment.
Finally, you have now replicated the journey i take with homelabbing... Pure pain and suffering on every single step of the journey just to get a sort of working result and most of the time doesn't even work.
Can you help me please...🙏
My Gmail account was hacked 😭😭
Between you and Linus' home automation series, I am living the dream when it comes to video tutorials on how to create a locally ran smart home.
Wait, you are taking linus advices seriously? Bruh you have a problem. Anyone with an above average IT knowledge know his channel wnd content are for entertainment, and nobody should try to use or implement anything that comes from that channel, rip.
@@theangelofspace155 can you recommend some other channels please
@@theangelofspace155 well, just a counter point, I decided to build my home lab because of a Linus video. Then went to HH, Techno Tim, Raid Owl, Wendel both Jeffs, and some very good HA channels. I know better than to look to Linus for how to. But his channel is pretty good for inspiration..... and of course entertainment as you said.
@@theangelofspace155bruh you gotta chill
LTT is a decent starting point they aren't as detailed but i use them for overviews
There’s something weirdly refreshing about watching videos like these where you understand absolutely nothing going on but still fascinated by it
Same..
same =)
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bro I understand what hes saying and its still fucking awesome. just keep listening and learning :)
Hi Chuck. Thanks for the end-to-end on using Voice Assistance.
BTW, when you activated the wake-up word "Hey MyCroft", then demonstrate using "OK MyCroft", it's not surprising when it doesn't work 😉😊
Dude. I have followed multiple guides. Banging my head. I noticed you didn't install a wakeword service on the satellite, which I was doing. I just omitted all that stuff and it worked flawlessly! Thank you!
hi, what you do, can you tell me please?
OMG. Paulus Schoutsen and Mike Hansen have been talking about this since last year, the "Year of the Voice" You have inspired me to do it! Thanks, Chuck!
YESSS more home assistant videos please 🙌
I won't have a chance to build the things I want until the summer (2025) so hopefully a couple more home assistant videos drop between now and then so I can re-watch them!!
Cool, I'm currently buying some sensors right now
By then all this tech will be obsolete.
We'll have 1usd self replicating nano robots conquering the world, lol.
@@ronilevarez901 this us so inaccurate!
The robots will be kidnapping humans and selling them
Mycroft AI business went down but the software got forked and its actively maintained by the Open Voice OS and Neon communities. I'm running my Open Voice OS on my laptop (but it can run on Raspberry Pi as well) with a local LLM! Thanks for showing people that there is something else than the big Alexa and others!
You are not old enough for this reference, but I plan to train mine to say "compliance" or "unable to comply" as the reply for executing tasks.
Thank you for these videos - I'm right behind you! Have been looking for this for years now.
Great video! One important thing to note: If you want another model instead of llama just make sure it supports Tool calling, it's tagged with "tools" on Ollama models list.
This video and your previous one are absolutely wonderful. I love the fact that everything runs locally without an external 'cloud'. Looking forward to the upcoming videos.
I completely replaced Alexa with HA Assist 3 months ago. At that point it was ready for maybe 30 percents, but i wanted to give myself a reason to speed up the development. Now it does everything we wanted from Alexa and more.
This is SO COOL! I can’t wait to try it! If only there was a way to repurpose all my old Echo Dots to serve as satellite units…
They can be used as bluetooth speakers.
How??? @@willdwyer6782
The most difficult part is to buy the things.
Everything else is just a matter of learning the how.
Lack of a ready-to-go voice assistant, and hardware for it, is the reason I've not been able to commit to Home Assistant. Rhasspy may almost have the software, but the cost to build dedicated devices to replace the 8 Google Home receivers around my house is somewhat impractical. However, this video is the best solution I've seen so far!
Seeing Network Chuck breakdown before tech challanges really helps in taking the edge off my own tech oriented failures :D
No kidding. I've gone from expecting to get things done in minutes in windows to being happy I blew a whole weekend getting something running in Linux. These people really love their dos console window. It's like they skipped the GUI revolution of Windows and just made a 64 bit multi-threaded version of DOS.
Bro, I had to pause the video at 5min to write this immediately. I have been research in my own spare time for the past 3 months on HA and intergrating Voice, AI and control with absolutely no luck. You seem to have very eloquently explained exactly what I need to know (without watching the whole video yet). seems I can pull the trigger on buying stuff for this project and get to it. I'll watch the rest of this, then your HA tutorial and it looks like you've got a sub.
this is really cool, not fully there yet, but a lot better at answering questions than alexa
Du bist mega! Deine Energie ist toll anzusehen. Und dabei auch noch was zu lernen. Grüße aus Deutschland! 🇩🇪
If you want to build your own hockey puck/snowball, someone already did that, too. I don't recall what all it entails, as I found this article like 2 months ago, but it uses an ESP32 instead of a Raspberry Pi to connect to Home Assistant. Hope this helps someone. Great work, Chuck!
Inspiring video! With home assistant I bet you can up the spouse approval but having your voice assistant say something like "let me think about that" and then process the question.This would pad the wait time for the AI to process the request.
Man! Last month I started building my own APIs using node red and LLama. Now I'm there and controlling many things sending backend calls to my api connected to my Arduino board, That makes my workflow pretty much easier! Thanks!
Lol I love how chuck reacted when he heard the revision hahahhaha That's the most genuine reaction I have seen in youtube this year
I WAS JUST TALKING ABOUT THIS YESTERDAY!!!! Crazy you posted this.
Same!
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A lot of work went into this video. Well done. This is a real gem.
I have the same pi hat and gave up trying to get it working. Think I threw it against a wall. Going to give it another shot if it still works. Thank you!!
Best video for this topic until now! I've seen a lot of video tutorials, but this was the more elucidate one. Congrats!
Defender is a great suggestion but I love you approach with virtual browser in the cloud. Your knowledge is awesome your enthusiasm is inspiring
This is amazing you give great step by step description and easy to follow along guide... I am so surprised by the things home assistant is capable of..Please keep the home assistant videos coming
So happy you started doing HA and AI tutorials, thanks 😊
Just wanted to let you know i love your energy when you make your video's, something a lot of youtubers lack! Keep it up!!
Great stuff Chuck! Thanks for this walkthrough, I've been struggling to figure out how all these things fit together.
FYI: When I first installed all the Add-Ons Piper and Whisper were not picked up automatically by the Wyoming Protocol Service. Re-installing them fixed it.
Like most home assistant projects -- it looks like a lot of work, but what an awesome result.
i loved watching you deal with it running over you with long messages. it happens for me often
so. very. often. ChatGPT, please stop talking and just say yes or no when I ask you something.
33:35 It might be a good idea adding something like "be concize in the response" to the LLM system prompt so that you do not get crazy long responces read out 🤣
Dude, right on, right on. Use to watch your videos all the time, and now I'm stuck again trying to learn some voice recognition stuff the past few weeks, and you just came in to save the day! Thank you!
Awesome video Chuck.. I'm actually in the process of adding features to my HA installation, so I'm really loving these ideas. Especially when it involves replacing Alexa with something that runs locally.
"I don't care how much coffee it takes; I'm going to do it!" LOL This is the second video of yours that I have watched, and I now understand why you have over 4 million subscribers. Pretty amazing stuff. You really know your coffee. Keep up the great work; you won another subscriber. I can't wait to set up the voice assistant on my HA system.
That is not a Gen 1 Alexa. My daughter purchased me a Gen 1 Alexa for Christmas the year they come out. I still have it running in my bedroom. We moved across country last year. The unit is paired, but it is not possible to re-pair it. Therefore my local weather and time on the device are wrong.
Thank you for this video Chuck. My wife is handicapped and we use Alexa's all over the place and I wanted to replace them with my own setup.
For bonus points, we listen to music with an MPD client/server setup. If there was someway to voice control our local mpd collection that would be awesome!
There's an MPD integration for Home Assistant so it should be possible.
@@eDoc2020 I had seen that if I can get volume up/down play pause, next, previous, what's playing and switch to playlist, life would be good.
Something you might try to add to these videos using docker is using compose or even portainer. Makes managing docker in general easier, especially if you are doing multiple containers as it helps visualize things a lot better.
Good luck with changing the AI voice. I was watching the STNG episode, "Skin of Evil," and thought the voice of Armus would be funny for an voice assistant.
Hey, one thing I did was the use of Assist and GPT in the same command, Assist is waaaay faster to respond to obvious commmand like "turn on the light", but it cannot do AI, so I did a nodered script that use assist and if it fails goes to GPT, it works quite well to be fair
maybe a little hint, how you achieve this?^^
Very cool Chuck, I am just now getting started with your academy (the free version) I wish I found your videos sooner nonetheless it is a great time to be alive. I am an electronics technician retired USN my interests now are in Ai and learning IT to become a network engineer or at least an aspiring one. I will be running my own corporation as well as it is just now starting up. A lot of what I have learned in my time (just being alive) is I dont need to know everything to be a leader in any field just a good headhunter. To do this I must know more than the basics and for this type of business my mind is like a dry sponge. Your videos are inspiring and easy to follow. I have come up with my own ideas about practical use of AI and now I see many people have already been working on this. I am encouraged as most people still dont know this is the perfect time to be in IT Networking and AI development. Thanks to you my journey is becoming much smoother. Thanks and I will be subscribing and following you on youtube.
I'm speechless. I've discovered your channel because of this video and I can't even follow your speed just watching you writing code XD. I'll try to follow your steps just to achieve the dream of having my own "BT-7274" as an assistant. Thank you so much for shedding light on this topic and I'll be waiting for your "Voice change" tutorial. I've already extracted the BT voice lines from Titanfall 2 but I wasn't sure of some steps explained in the documentation. Hopefully, you will know how to do it. And again, thank you so much for this content. New sub!!!
Chuck you can make aliases of your devices in home assistant and call the what ever and expose them to your pipeline. It's kind of a pain in the butt and a long process, but at least you could call your lamp whatever you wanted to when you talked to your voice Assistant
This is Your BEST video! Cant wait for the second part....Good luck
This is one of the coolest tutorials I’ve ever seen. Can’t wait to see if you get terry‘s voice set up.
This would take me years to complete but i enjoyed watching you do it 🎉
Man, I've just bought HA Yellow , and got to look into this vid - awesome. Gonna bookmark it and implement tomorrow. Planning to run Ollama thing on my Z420 server, in a separate VM.
Your art of doing These Videos ist exactly what i'm searching for. Very nice, Go Go
Thank you very much
I like how he says that he does not want some other party to have his data, but 80 percent of his other videos are building something that can run flawlessly on a local machine, but he makes it online on some random VM somewhere in the world :)
Holy Rabbit hole batman!! Mastered Stable Diffusiuon in the last few months and now fell into LLM home automation
One of the commands we use with Alexa is to start timers. Sometimes we have multiple timers running at the same time. Can you show an example of starting a 2 minute timer, along with a spoken phrase of "your timer is done" (or "your egg timer is done" if you've given the timer a name of egg). We tell Alexa to start a timer by saying "alexa, start a 5 minute oven timer". It is fine to have Terry announce completion once and turn off, as opposed to alexa that continues to alert until you tell it to cancel. Also need a way to cancel a timer in progress.
Always a great day when network chuck posts
Love your work Chuck.
You mentioned that you don’t use frigate. I would love to see it though with home assistant and local AI, when object, person detected etc it send an alert with AI generated description of what it sees
This is cool. If you ever manage to get better speakers and a nice 3d print to wrap it all up, please do a follow up with those refinements.
Totally awesome. My home assistant is already running on docker. Let's hope that my good old QNAP is able to run ollama. But since HA addons are also docker containers inside HAOS, you just need to run your HA on a better HW like a mini pc
34:10 Would have been super useful to have a side-by-side or timed comparasing of the 3 setups! all on raspberry vs offload to laptop vs offload to terry. That way you get an idea on what is worse case, average and best case scenario! A followup would be nice.
I wish that when I attempted college for computer network and security my teach would have been like you.
I love that an old spice add played at the end of this 😂 looking forward to changing the speech soon!
I have tried doing this and it was so slow and decided not to use it. I had no idea you could off load whisper and piper - GENIUS!! And the Ollama for an LLM - I need to read more. Please more of these if you can!! Thank you!!
One question - instead of a GPU could a TPU work like google Corel Accelerator?
But thank you - more please!!
TPU current RAM is too low. So it won't work.
@@MrThesoulripper13 @trekbear69 current Hailo/Coral TPUs are sadly ONLY good for AI Vision, even just for object detection Frigate BUT NOT for Training, for LLM You need nVidia GPUs, however good news Ollama can now supports newer Intel GPU Iris as well, whisper NOT yet
I was just attempting this on my own, but now I have some more experienced guidance lol, This is so cool!
that "I'M GOING TO DO IT" at the end was so funny 🤣 can't wait to hear Terry's new voice!
I have been meaning to do exactly this from a long time. Boy oh boy, you saved so much research time.
Looking forward for someone who gonna make some PCBs to replace some echo devices guts or, maybe, some firmware replacement. The lights, mics and speakers are better, form factor too. All have built-in wifi and some have the screens/displays. Just the cloud/IA stuff that sucks. Taking back the hardware we already paid for would be amazing
This. My dream smart speaker would be some HA-enabled board like esp32 or pico inside a HomePod mini, because those speakers are mind-blowing, they have a pretty clean, full sound with incredibly fat low frequencies considering the small form factor. Maybe even go full Frankenstein and swap the mic for the one that's in Google's Nest mini, this little guy impresses me with how far it can catch my voice from. It would definitely not be cheap tho and quite hard to do, if at all possible. But hey, one can dream, right?
33:53 : Bro you made me laugh so much! hahaha i wasn't expecting that 🤣
Chuck you are amazing!!! I love watching and learning from your videos. Please keep them flowing.
22:32 Can confirm that ollama binds its port to 127.0.0.1 on debian 12 as well and you need to configure it to bind to 0.0.0.0 or any specific network interface as well if you want to access it from other machines.
This video is pure gold!!!
Hello from Ukraine and thank you!
great stuff, im amazed how easy was it for you to present it for us .... :)
Home Assistant is so much fun and addictive 😅 i really enjoy this content.
Excellent, please ignore my previous question in the previous setup guide you did for home assistant
I see a massive migration in my future 😂
I'm a massive HA nerd, but just ran across your channel. Subscribed! 👍
Also, awesome neck tat (fellow believer here) ♥🙏
Very cool, thanks for sharing. Your videos are very informative, entertaining and great energy!
Question: How do you access your AI services from external networks? Or do you only use it at home?
lol, level 1 where he's trying to turn back on "chuck lamp light" by typing the command really reminded me of playing one of those old school text adventure games like Zork.
i dont even own any smart stuff to try this on them but this content is stinking amazing and it shouldn't be free
thank you for doing these... been using Home Assistant for a long time, but all the people i watch videos from aren't tech tech... other than the HA stuff. Sometimes their "how to" videos skip a lot of stuff.
My brain just melted when I just noticed I could possibly re use the speakers I don’t use on my 3 seater excalibur / melendez couch. One for the pi / mic, one for the speaker
Awesome video !! Was waiting for something like this a while!
I would also really want to see a setup of snapcast on all the satellites to get rid of all the Alexa Sonos setups...
Your timing is perfect! I've been looking for a Mycroft replacement!
Looking forward to the next one. These tutorials are so awesome!
Been building a ai that is driving me nuts atm. Super complex but really cool. Kinda got inspired by your off-line stuff
Super excited if he gets the Terry voice going. I've been wanting to train mine to sound like a transylvanian lab assistant. I named him Igor. Id like to get as close to Marty Feldman's character from Young Frankenstein as possible.
I think Terry should use a Borg voice :)
5:49 NOOOOOOOOO DONT REMOVE THE COFFEE SOUND
EXACTLY MY REACTION!!!!
Totally agree!!! Stand up to the anti-slurp tyrants, Chuck! Don’t let anyone bully you into self-censorship!
I didn't actually notice this the first time, but now that I know, I can't unknow. Why would they ever remove the sound?!
Network chuck video isn't complete without the iconic sip ...
I love the coffee sound, I must be weird 😂
NetworkGenius!, keep being a mad scientist I'm loving it.
Dude I first came across your stuff via the video on Fabric of all things... but this video is just great. Your editing sessions must be ridiculous. The attention to the most minute details (like the little aside to the camera just for the line "we're in.") is almost hypnotic. I had to double check to see that I wasn't on 1.5 speed (which I often am... but not here.)
Anyway I'm hoping to set something similar up! I've been looking at someone else's work (sorry can't remember name) that calls his "Ada" and uses the realtime api for GPT4o... seems fast and good as well, but suuuuuper expensive to run much. Sadly I don't have a spare machine with enough heft to run Llama very well. T_T
Anyway great work and can't wait for the next one! Once you have the voice go ahead and use something like HEDRA for a realtime video of him on the screen!
I thank you for removing the coffee sound. I’ve always found it annoying. I do love the videos though keep it up!
Very nice video, all that is (probably) needed to use voice with HA in one place, I'm finally going to give it a try :)
I laughed out loud at the long Batman answer,
But I had higher expectations than to install samba just to transfer 2 files! 😀
1:21 That's the first widely available version of the dot, but it's the 2nd model overall. The very first was only available to purchase using a voice command with the original pringles can sized echo. It was all metal and only had the wake and mute buttons because the volume was controlled by twisting the top. They were pretty awesome, but they sounded like crap and they were inordinately expensive compared to what they charge for a dot nowadays. I paid $80 IIRC.
Hey dude, you deserve my follow for your work. Good job!
It is AAAAWESOMEEEE!!! And by the way you should ask for a short flash but you should say a slow flash because the short might be of order of miliseconds and you would not see anything.
oh lord chuck, you motivate me to spend more money on this stuff, and make my family house so geek, not even my family members would understand.
Chuck, this was epic and I love that you started on a pi and then evolved the setup and off loaded services to a faster machine. But why not offload home assistant to Terry as well as a final step?
I have HA on a Dell Wyze 5070 because when I fiddle in my homelad I still want the automations to work (lights, aircon and stuff). That's why I keep it seperate from machines I fiddle on a lot.
Ive been looking to do this for over a year, my google is a dumbass now.
Thanks for doing the hard work for us 🎉
Great walkthrough!
Cant wait to hear the voice changed.
Instead of offloading to your laptop, I'm curious if the 26tops AI Hat+ on a raspberry would allow us to keep performance and just have it all running in one place.
ive been trying to figure out how to do this exact thing for weeks, thank you so much
Oh, that bit with the long winded batman filmography had me burst into laughter. The pain is real!
If you eventually decide to containerize Home Assistant and move it to Docker or better yet Kubernetes (would probably make for a good video), just be aware that Add-ons are more limited. You can still install them, but they need to be installed into their own containers and cannot be installed through the HA Add-ons screen, so there's a few more hoops to jump through.
Why would you do that?? Install Proxmox on the machine and make a HA VM, if you need GPU acceleration you can easily just passthrough it... DO NOT use docker for HA...
Can I install all this whisper stuff in a docker? I have Home assistant running on my synology, but I want to replace the alexas with raspberry pi's. Or, should I jsut run it all off the raspberry pi?
@@TheRareGamer what's the problem using HA as a docker? Can I setup this Proxmox on a synology?
@@TuckerDansieFilms Because its more of a PITB for doing add-ons in docker
Though I do run it in docker myself - but I also don't really use add-ons...I think I use one but then I might also have just given up too
I think you meed to run hassOS to use pluggings.
I need to build something like my own Larry lol. On a stack of pi 5’s I’ve got a similar much smaller setup focusing on 3b llms. Very interesting how the two pi’s working together have sped up the response time of the llm in home assistant. Normally the pi alone in the terminal maxed out cpu and ram but it’s mild now. Have two more pi 5’s joining the team hopefully next week. Had the same issue with the url, dropped the webui for this. Love all your videos.
This was feaking crazy. Nice stuff. Can't wait for Tair-ee to talk 😀
One thing you should mention is that if you are using higher powered USB devices to a Pi, you need to ensure you have adequate power.