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Pine64 has started shipping their smart speaker! (pine64.com)
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[–] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 5 points 5 days ago (3 children)

The Third Reality speaker also recently came out.

So now there are three. The Pine one, the Home Assistant one, and the third Reality one.

[–] Cyber@feddit.uk 1 points 4 days ago

I don't need to ask HA what the weight of a cow is, or any other LLM stuff, I just want to control the home

So, I've been faffng around with a Pi Zero and voice assistant and it works fine - with HA doing all the processing in a VM elsewhere.

I agree these 3 devices look much nicer, so which do I go for?

[–] lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I'm looking at Third Reality's website and I don't see a speaker anywhere... Did they announce it somewhere?

[–] Geologist@lemmy.zip 1 points 4 days ago

The home assistant one (Voice PE) works very well as a front for conversational home control, but poorly for music (although to be fair it does include a headphone jack).

This pine one seems larger, so maybe they’re doing better here with the speaker.