#Hello, I am new to the community, I want
bold bramble
The answer is complicated, and well beyond the remit of this server.
You need an actual business plan.
You need to know your costs.
You need to know what your local market will pay.
Google how to start a business
crimson smelt
11ty billion dollars
clever yew
Enough to recoup your running costs and earn enough to be sustainable. As with any business I guess?
bold bramble
Don't forget to account for all the overheads that people forget - tax, insurance, etc etc
wooden kayak
Thank you for your good answers, they will help me a lot, from what I see each person charges a different price, since apparently there is no smart home business model as such, even though it is something from before, it is a field that can be explode quite a bit yet, due to the growth of AI.
bold bramble
AI is this week's buzz word
AI's impact on the smart home isn't likely to be what you've been conned into believing, not any time soon
It's just a tool
wooden kayak
AI's impact on the smart home isn't likely to be what you've been conned into be...
Sorry to tell you, I have been doing a lot of research and it is something that will revolutionize the smart home market, thanks to the fact that it will allow us to make internal configurations easier, our house will have its own consciousness, with integrations, something that has a lot of potential.
I say all this maybe because I don't know as much as you do, but I'm sure of one thing, that AI is incredible if you know how to use it. Besides, being at the beginning of this Smart HomeAI technology, we have a lot of advantage over people who do not yet know or are afraid of applying this technology.
bold bramble
Ah... another victim of the Hype Train
It's also very far from actual intelligence or consciousness
wooden kayak
It's just a tool
That's true, but it's not just any tool, it's literally a conscience.
Only pre-established commands will no longer be needed, but now the AI will understand your intention and send a trigger wherever you want.
bold bramble
I say this as somebody who's been following machine learning and AI for decades now
wooden kayak
It's also very far from actual intelligence or consciousness
For now it is enough to follow orders from a human, such as turning off the lights, giving me information that I request, executing automations, being able to differentiate people, animals and objects, from an image or video.
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wooden kayak
I say this as somebody who's been following machine learning and AI for *decades...
Congratulations, it is something worth admiring.
bold bramble
Yeah, so voice control and image recognition... both of which pre-date the current AI hype
wooden kayak
Yeah, so voice control and image recognition... both of which pre-date the curre...
I still don't understand what exaggeration of AI you see in me, I know what AI is capable of currently and I think it's enough to be able to use it, I'm not another one who believes in openAI marketing, I know the hallucinations or errors that an AI can have , I know how he is trained and with what.
Using STT (whisper), local LLM to process the input, TTS (ElevenLabs) or whatever you want to use, having that architecture you can have an assistant that works in real time and as you expect, I currently work doing AI callers and I'm not complaining to be honest. of the functioning of my bots.
In a smart home it is the same, only with integrations that can be done before.
bold bramble
@wooden kayak
wooden kayak
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I was doing it backwards, sorry.
crimson smelt
AI has already been used in home automation for quite some time, it's nothing new, it's just not that good. It turns out, most people don't want/need lights to adapt to daily routines because daily routines aren't set in stone
One of the most frequent problems with Alexa's light AI is that it simply turns lights on at very odd times based on hardware screwing up