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Is there a free, open source alternative to smart home solutions like Alexa? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 3 years ago by ksynwa@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Someone in my family uses Alexa to do things like control lights and some other electrical appliances in the home. I don't know anything about this smart home trend, but I immediately disliked Alexa because:

It's Amazon
When the internet went down, we were unable to use Alexa to any affect to control the appliances. I am guessing this means that all communication (unsurprisingly) is routed to a central Amazon server before going to the appliances, which IMO is a pretty terrible design choice for the consumer (but I am guessing not for Amazon).

Are there any open source alternatives to things like this? I can see it being useful in some scenarios or at the very least it would be a nice gimmick to have if you have a spare rpi lying around.

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[–] Helix@feddit.de 0 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

Mycroft.ai

offline functionality: https://community.mycroft.ai/t/easiest-way-to-use-mycroft-completely-offline/3741

[–] wintermute@feddit.de 0 points 3 years ago

rhasspy combined with something like home assistant or node red