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wondering if all this investment they're doing on voice is going to have diminishing returns, like, the whole pitch for HA cloud integration is that you could see and use your HA devices with your cloud enabled voice assistant services, right? Nabu Casa makes money for the HA project. is getting rid of the middle man worth it? I needed some first hand experience to convince myself about getting into it or just simply keep paying for NC
(not first hand experience but) Nabu casa is a way to support HA development, having cloud assistant is just a bonus, you also get easy external access and another bonus is that you don't need to setup the different addons to be able to use assist, while it is doable on something like raspberry 4, problem will be latency compare to nabu casa or you will need a more powerful device to be able to run them smooth. If you didn't bother to setup cloud assistant by yourself to avoid fees, chances are you will stick to nabu casa and it is a good thing as you are supporting home assistant development.