• idunnololz@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Even with home assistant set up, I still have Google assistant handling the voice control aspect. I might be wrong but I don’t think home assistant comes with any voice controls. You still need something else if you want to control it with voice.

    Edit: it looks like there is something built into HA called Assist. I tried it a bit and while the basics work, I find it harder to use than google assistant.

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      2 months ago

      Getting Home Assistant to play nicely with Google without using their Nabu Casa service definitely is a hurdle, but once you get over it, it’s super nice. I ended up just blocking Google DNS inside my network to force all the Google home devices to use my internal DNS to fix the https/hairpin NAT issue. It wasn’t a big deal since my kids are getting older and I needed to block outbound DNS in general since they’re getting savvy enough to get around my content filtering.

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        2 months ago

        Oh I just paid for Nabu Casa. It’s only $65 USD / yr and it supports the dev of HA. I’m happy to pay for it for how much I get out of HA.