Just got the Voice PE, ran thru set up. Using Whisper/Piper, HA is a VM on an n100. Exposed everything, set a few voice aliases. But it can’t seem to do anything I ask. Even if I use a configured alias, it just says “I can’t find a device by that name” or something to that effect. I’m sure there’s something I’m just not getting right, but not seeing what it is. Help?
#New Voice PE install
tender blade
versed mantle
Just got the Voice PE, ran thru set up. Using Whisper/Piper, HA is a VM on an n1...
do you have the entities that you want to control exposed to the voice assistant?
tender blade
Yup. Even set a specific alias for a device hoping it would make it easier for HA to identify the device I was referencing. Still couldn't find it
versed mantle
have you looked at a debug trace of the pipeline?
it breaks down the steps, so we can see if theres any obvious issues there
tender blade
looking into it now...
so, it looks like I correctly transcribed my speech to text, but still came back with a "I'm not aware of any device called..."
versed mantle
what command are you giving it?
tender blade
here's the trace. I'm telling it "Set Lori's fan to low".
the target device is an inovelli white fan canopy module, which exposes a dimmble light and a multispeed fan (off, low, medium, high)
versed mantle
so, a couple of thoughts.
what does the entity actually look like and how do its options work?
it could be that its an issue with the word "fan" which is a keyword and if something is not a fan entity it could be causing issues. try renaming it something else (if only for testing)
tender blade
It’s definitely a fan entity
I even tried calling it something different, like “my butt” and it still didn’t work lol
versed mantle
gotcha
tender blade
Using an alias for the voice assistant that is
I should note that I did successfully manage to get one of my scenes to activate via voice. So things under the hood are working for the most part, just seems to have trouble with this entity
I also managed to play an arbitrary text to speech through it in another test (“close the fridge”), so some things are definitely working properly
versed mantle
ok so it might be a limitation of the basic fan intents
tender blade
That could make sense. Happy to help support any debugging that improves the utility of the product 😀
versed mantle
can you "turn on fan-name"?
tender blade
I’ll give that a try in a little bit. Just started walking the dog…
thorn beacon
Yeah with fans it works as turn on/off, but no speed/percentage.
Just checked it on my
versed mantle
it should be easy to set up custom command using an automation though which i can help you with after dog operations 🙂
thorn beacon
it should be easy to set up custom command using an automation though which i ca...
Yeah, I just have that shit completely automated, so don't need custom intent. I have them for other things though.