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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 😉😊
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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!
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!!
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!
If you have dedicated hardware for your "satellite" it is also possible to run the wake word detection locally. Then you have less network traffic and less lag in the voice assistant.
Thank you for muting the drinking sounds, I braced for impact and was hit with delightful silence. It was noticed and appreciated! My Misophonia is evil.
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.
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.
Chuck and gang, I am banging my head against the wall here. I have whisper and piper running on a windows computer, followed your directions but when I go back to add the service, I get connection failed. I have tried everything I know including adding the ports to the advanced firewall settings EVEN though they are turned off. What the heck am I missing here. Love the video and thank you for all you do. This is going to step my entire house up.
did you do definitely do the localhost step to 0.0.0.0?? I couldn't get ollama to connect without this. no amount of ports etc made any difference for me.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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
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!
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 🤣
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?
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
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
Awesome video. In the process of following along now. Just wanted to say how grateful I am that you removed the slurp sound from your sip of coffee. It's wonderful to see the rising level of misophonia awareness.
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!
I'm in the Apple ecosystem and have been using HA for years. Their homebridge is incredible and actually allows me to just use siri to control everything I expose to it. Devices, scenes etc.
I love what Nabu Casa are doing with Home Assistant. I actually really loved the telephone gimmick they have where you can use an IP Phone to talk to the voice assistant. I know most people wouldn't use it, but something about picking up a phone to call home assistant was kind of fun.
thats interesting. if u can help with some links or something it will be helpful. also i have a question if u know Im new on this world :) I have a raspberry pi 5 / 8gb Ram and installed the HA on an sd card 512gb U2 class 10. When i installed this addons all the system crashed and a message appeared that is out of network. I do this again and again and the same msg appears do u have any idea what its going on ? i know u cannot help me with this info but am asking for an opinion if anybody knows.
@@martinospapantoniou4491 RUclips is very good at deleting comments that have links etc. I hate doing this, but it's the best I have. Do a quick search for voice and home assistant. :) Wish I could give more info.....
What has the YT algorithm done to you? The over excited gestures and speech that you see in ipad kids. Fight it don't let the numbers change you, its not to late.
"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.
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!!
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!
It occurs to me that you don't need to have a raspberry pi running each individual reciever. Simply set up wireless microphones in place of the various google homes and have them all connected to a central pi. You're going to spend a bit more than the price of a google home, but a fraction of the cost of 8 of them. Considering the power consumption is so low you could have the mics battery powered and have them all over your house if you wanted. It also strikes me that you don't really need them in every room since you can just use your phone 99% of the time. You really only need them in the main living space(s).
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.
Shouldn't it also be possible to accelerate everything with the Raspberry Pi 5 and the AI HAT+ if you don't have an AI workstation? That would be interesting to know.
I actually worked with one of the original Mycroft creators earlier in my career. First time I ever saw a 3D printer in real life was at their Alpha launch/Christmas party. It was a fun project to follow along with. That said, I'm in the process of doing exactly what you did in this video. I'm running Whisper, Piper, and Ollama on my TrueNAS instance, and I'm running HA baremetal on an old i3 Gigabyte Brix.
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
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!
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.
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.
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.
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'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!!!
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 :)
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
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.
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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 😭😭
There’s something weirdly refreshing about watching videos like these where you understand absolutely nothing going on but still fascinated by it
Same..
same =)
Yeeep
Same:)
bro I understand what hes saying and its still fucking awesome. just keep listening and learning :)
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
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 😉😊
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!
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
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?
If you have dedicated hardware for your "satellite" it is also possible to run the wake word detection locally. Then you have less network traffic and less lag in the voice assistant.
Thank you for muting the drinking sounds, I braced for impact and was hit with delightful silence. It was noticed and appreciated! My Misophonia is evil.
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.
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.
Chuck and gang, I am banging my head against the wall here. I have whisper and piper running on a windows computer, followed your directions but when I go back to add the service, I get connection failed. I have tried everything I know including adding the ports to the advanced firewall settings EVEN though they are turned off. What the heck am I missing here.
Love the video and thank you for all you do. This is going to step my entire house up.
did you do definitely do the localhost step to 0.0.0.0?? I couldn't get ollama to connect without this. no amount of ports etc made any difference for me.
Have you found a way? I am having the same problem.
I WAS JUST TALKING ABOUT THIS YESTERDAY!!!! Crazy you posted this.
Same!
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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
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.
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.
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! 🇩🇪
Always a great day when network chuck posts
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.
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.
Thank you for this amazing Video ❤❤
33:53 : Bro you made me laugh so much! hahaha i wasn't expecting that 🤣
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.
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.
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!
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?^^
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!
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 🤣
Best video for this topic until now! I've seen a lot of video tutorials, but this was the more elucidate one. Congrats!
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
Awesome tutorial. I'm getting home assist going and trying to use this through the Google home speakers I already have. Not sure if this is possible
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?
So happy you started doing HA and AI tutorials, thanks 😊
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.
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
I'm looking forward to replacing Alexa so I can now spend a few hours a day trying to get my lights to turn on and off
Awesome video. In the process of following along now. Just wanted to say how grateful I am that you removed the slurp sound from your sip of coffee. It's wonderful to see the rising level of misophonia awareness.
This is SO amazing! Congrats Chuck, you are at the same time smart and funny! Love it! Hoping for the Video #2 to hear Terry Crew's voice!!! 😀
Can you help me please.
My Gmail account was hacked.
So I want to back it by hack again.
I don't know hack 😥😥🙏
DAMNIT U TRIGGERED MY GOOGLE!
I said "cancel" and it closed this video on my chromecast 4k😂
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 😂
that "I'M GOING TO DO IT" at the end was so funny 🤣 can't wait to hear Terry's new voice!
You can run Ollama as a docker container now!
What does this mean? How?
yeah but u don't need to
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!
Dude chill with the caffeine or you're gonna end up being a guest on a James Hoffmann RUclips video with a moka pot in your hand.🤣
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!!
I'm in the Apple ecosystem and have been using HA for years. Their homebridge is incredible and actually allows me to just use siri to control everything I expose to it. Devices, scenes etc.
Your art of doing These Videos ist exactly what i'm searching for. Very nice, Go Go
Thank you very much
I love what Nabu Casa are doing with Home Assistant. I actually really loved the telephone gimmick they have where you can use an IP Phone to talk to the voice assistant. I know most people wouldn't use it, but something about picking up a phone to call home assistant was kind of fun.
thats interesting. if u can help with some links or something it will be helpful.
also i have a question if u know
Im new on this world :)
I have a raspberry pi 5 / 8gb Ram and installed the HA on an sd card 512gb U2 class 10. When i installed this addons all the system crashed and a message appeared that is out of network. I do this again and again and the same msg appears do u have any idea what its going on ? i know u cannot help me with this info but am asking for an opinion if anybody knows.
@@martinospapantoniou4491 RUclips is very good at deleting comments that have links etc. I hate doing this, but it's the best I have. Do a quick search for voice and home assistant. :) Wish I could give more info.....
Defender is a great suggestion but I love you approach with virtual browser in the cloud. Your knowledge is awesome your enthusiasm is inspiring
What has the YT algorithm done to you? The over excited gestures and speech that you see in ipad kids. Fight it don't let the numbers change you, its not to late.
Bro he has always been like this. What are you smoking
I wish that when I attempted college for computer network and security my teach would have been like you.
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This is Your BEST video! Cant wait for the second part....Good luck
"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.
OMG. Thank you for doing the work. This is great! I'm going to do this in January. You've made it so much easier.
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!!
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!
It occurs to me that you don't need to have a raspberry pi running each individual reciever. Simply set up wireless microphones in place of the various google homes and have them all connected to a central pi.
You're going to spend a bit more than the price of a google home, but a fraction of the cost of 8 of them.
Considering the power consumption is so low you could have the mics battery powered and have them all over your house if you wanted.
It also strikes me that you don't really need them in every room since you can just use your phone 99% of the time. You really only need them in the main living space(s).
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.
Hey Chuck! 👋
Shouldn't it also be possible to accelerate everything with the Raspberry Pi 5 and the AI HAT+ if you don't have an AI workstation? That would be interesting to know.
Like most home assistant projects -- it looks like a lot of work, but what an awesome result.
I actually worked with one of the original Mycroft creators earlier in my career. First time I ever saw a 3D printer in real life was at their Alpha launch/Christmas party. It was a fun project to follow along with.
That said, I'm in the process of doing exactly what you did in this video. I'm running Whisper, Piper, and Ollama on my TrueNAS instance, and I'm running HA baremetal on an old i3 Gigabyte Brix.
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 one of the coolest tutorials I’ve ever seen. Can’t wait to see if you get terry‘s voice set up.
seriosly man i was searching for this since 1 month , thanks for making
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.
This video is pure gold!!!
Hello from Ukraine and thank you!
Home Assistant is so much fun and addictive 😅 i really enjoy this content.
Looking forward to the next one. These tutorials are so awesome!
Chuck you are amazing!!! I love watching and learning from your videos. Please keep them flowing.
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.
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.
Holy Rabbit hole batman!! Mastered Stable Diffusiuon in the last few months and now fell into LLM home automation
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.
NetworkGenius!, keep being a mad scientist I'm loving it.
This was fun to watch! Thank you, Chuck
You Sir have my respect.
Oh, that bit with the long winded batman filmography had me burst into laughter. The pain is real!
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 have been meaning to do exactly this from a long time. Boy oh boy, you saved so much research time.
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.
this was really fun to watch!
Great walkthrough!
Cant wait to hear the voice changed.
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!!!
This was feaking crazy. Nice stuff. Can't wait for Tair-ee to talk 😀
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 :)
Noice! Great timing btw as this topic is my very exact winter project for this year!
Absolutely amazing video man!! ❤
I've been waiting for this since your python course with Evil Ben 😂😂
So i finally set it up ! woohoo thank you for the video again
😂 my google home reacted when you said turn off chuck light and turned off my tv!!
Hey dude, you deserve my follow for your work. Good job!
I was just attempting this on my own, but now I have some more experienced guidance lol, This is so cool!
Loving this Home Assistant series!
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
Thanks chuck, really appreciate the effort you put into the videos👍
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.
best channel ever! thanks Chuck! ❤❤
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.