I'v setup successfully a couple of devices like a kodi box, humidifier, cleaner or spotify. Assist with an esp32-s3-box-3 device and home assist cloud is also running fine (more or less). Now I want control these devices with assist. So I hoped that I can do simple state changes to start/stop a device out of the box without setting up automations, when I did set proper alias for them. But it looks like it doesn't, I always have to setup a scene or automation. I know there are predefined sentences, but didn't figure out how to run them (perhaps I'm too newbie searching for the right key word). What exactly do I miss here? I hoped that I can do something like "ok nabu, start spotify on kodi in living room" out of the box without setting up a scene or automation. What do I miss here?
#Do I need for assist to do for everything a scene or automation?
stable kite
Do I really need to do for everything a scene or automation?
Do I really need for assist to do for everything a scene or automation?
Do I need for assist to do for everything a scene or automation?
unreal comet
you may be able to get things like that to work by using an AI/LLM in your pipeline.
you can also potenitally write fewer complex automations with variables.
voice is getting better but its still early days
stable kite
Thanks, looks like. I will do some more research.
stray steeple
Home assistant has some baked in intents for basic device control, like turning lights on and off, adjusting volume on media players, play/pause of the media player (not requesting specific media), etc. You can see them all at https://github.com/home-assistant/intents/tree/main/sentences/en
For advanced music control like requesting music to play on a specific media player, you'd probably want to look into Music Assistant. There's some blueprints for Music Assistant to add voice commands with various levels of complexity at https://github.com/music-assistant/voice-support
