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Home Assistant beginners

What's been happening gang ?

Update 2026.10.1 fixes 2026.10.0 but this is my new found joy, never heard of it until now

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It runs so well like a real Speccy

 
Got my own EchoMuse set up now after a bit of faffing about. I had problems with rooting. Seems that firebreak was setting something incompatible with EchoMuse. Got there eventually.

So it's all set up now and I'm streaming music through it from Music Assistant which is very nice. I'm at a a bit of a loss as to what to further with it though. Are you fellas using it to turn lights on and off, etc, etc? Like Alexa except locally?

EDIT: I'd really like the wake word to be "Computer". I thought there would be more Star Trek geeks at Nabu Casa but clearly not :D
 
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Bluecube said:
EDIT: I'd really like the wake word to be "Computer". I thought there would be more Star Trek geeks at Nabu Casa but clearly not :D
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I've not tried it but worth a shot instead of training

github.com

home-assistant-wakewords-collection/en/computer at main · fwartner/home-assistant-wakewords-collection

Community Collection of Wake-Words for Home Assistant - fwartner/home-assistant-wakewords-collection
github.com github.com

github.com

GitHub - fwartner/home-assistant-wakewords-collection: Community Collection of Wake-Words for Home Assistant

Community Collection of Wake-Words for Home Assistant - fwartner/home-assistant-wakewords-collection
github.com github.com
 
I'm just using the Google Translate text-to-speech integration, Yaml code for my door bell announcement to SONOS looks like this

YAML: 
  - action: tts.speak
    target:
      entity_id: tts.google_en_com
    data:
      cache: true
      media_player_entity_id: media_player.dining_amp
      message: Vehicle detected
 
mikemod said:
I'm just using the Google Translate text-to-speech integration, Yaml code for my door bell announcement to SONOS looks like this
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Right, thanks

OK I gave it a try, it's cloud dependant and actually feels slower than local piper (went with the .co.uk version tho)

Code: 
action: tts.speak
target:
  entity_id: tts.google_translate_en_co_uk
data:
  cache: true
  media_player_entity_id: media_player.mygrp
  message: Vehicle detected
 
If anyone is having issues updating their stuff in HACS check out this fix

github.com

Handle large response headers when downloading files by rfoust · Pull Request #5644 · hacs/integration

Closes #5643. GitHub currently sends a 9,217-byte Content-Security-Policy header on release downloads, exceeding aiohttp's default 8,190-byte response-header limit. HACS fails to parse the resp...
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I edited the base.py file and inserted the one line as suggested in the commit and restarted home assistant and this fixed the issue.
 
That's all very doom and gloom take for something which should be core functionality in reality rather than a separate add on which you need to install and configure. It looks like a good step forward generally and makes the software more accessible for people who are not super tech savvy and makes the experience more consistent.

You can still add custom repositories and other functionality. The software is also open source and not locked down. You can manually install software without HACS if you really want.

As for the rumour mill stuff:
Paid integrations - I have no issues with people wanting to be paid for their work. If people want to put their integration behind a pay wall, that is up to them. You don't have to install it.
 
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