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Home Assistant is open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first. Powered by a worldwide community of tinkerers and DIY enthusiasts. Perfect to run on a Raspberry Pi or a local server. Available for free at home-assistant.io

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The era of open voice assistants has arrived - Home Assistant (www.home-assistant.io)

submitted 1 week ago by tifriis@sh.itjust.works to c/homeassistant@lemmy.world

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[–] nis@feddit.dk 6 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Only 2.4GHz WiFi?

[–] CosmicGiraffe@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Why would it need 5GHz? At most it needs to do two audio streams, which aren't going to need lots of bandwidth

[–] omega@startrek.website 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Interference. Especially in apartment complexes, the 2.4Ghz band is busy, causing a lot of packet drops and random disconnects.

[–] GreatAlbatross@feddit.uk 5 points 1 week ago

I've eliminated 2.4GHz wifi in the house for this reason.
The only downside is, I really need to get a couple more WAPs installed.

HA has been dead handy when I occasionally need to use an old device, as I can flip the second radio on from a dashboard.