Is there any alternative to alexa and google exept of the HA voice hardware? I only use a small Server without GPU for my Homeassisant so no local LLM or something possible. I want to be able to play notifications on this devices and switch my devices. I p.... by the alexa problems more and more often are happening 🙁
#alternative to Alexa and google
strong belfry
austere dock
Why not HA Voice PE?
You may try Respeaker Lite, but it's a bit on DIY side.
Also you may use many of tinkerer's ESP32S3 projects, fully DIY, cheap. But be prepared to the downsides.
strong belfry
I'm searching for somthing I can cast music to too (I forgot about that case) . I'll have a look on respeaker lite, never hearted before
austere dock
You want "cast" like in "Google cast"? Or you mean "somehow play music on it"? Because IDK if there's something that can be voice assistant AND Cast player right now on the market. But for playback you can take PE/Respeaker, connect it to any good 3.5mm-jack speaker, and use MusicAssistant flawlessly.
simple void
May be able to cast in the future with the new protocol being developed.
strong belfry
I now bought 2 home assistant voice preview editions. I have a curious problem. Setting them up I get an error message the HA server can't be reached. I'm using an nginx server in front of my HA internally and externally I have the same url split dns and let's encrypt ssl vert all dns requests in my home are going to 2 adguard dns servers which pointing the dns names to my nginx server. How can I figure out, what's the exact problem? The device is listed in my esphome integration, but the voice setup fails
strong belfry
Nobody an idea? I can't see any thing about the setup process in the logs
austere dock
Nobody an idea? I can't see any thing about the setup process in the logs
Your setup is pretty complicated. HA has sound proxy, that serves audio URLs from TTS service - and satellites have hard times getting that from HTTPS. Guess it's even harder for reverse-proxy.
strong belfry
Your setup is pretty complicated. HA has sound proxy, that serves audio URLs fro...
Shouldn't be a way then to add the URL for homeassistant dedicated to the voice preview manually?
austere dock
Shouldn't be a way then to add the URL for homeassistant dedicated to the voice ...
Maybe there should be, but there's no such thing as I know.
strong belfry
😢
strong belfry
I did not expect such a insecure product in 2025 🙈
austere dock
I did not expect such a insecure product in 2025 🙈
It's LAN. If you have intruder in your LAN, you have much bigger trouble than internal HTTP.
strong belfry
It's LAN. If you have intruder in your LAN, you have much bigger trouble than in...
Zero trust doesn't work like it's lan
austere dock
Zero trust doesn't work like it's lan
Well, i have my zero trust outside my vlan. 🙂
Don't get me wrong, I think it should work over HTTPS.
But with limited resources on ESP chips, every bit of help does matter.
Also using reverse proxy inside the LAN is overkill, IMHO, but i get it that it helps for config uniformity.
strong belfry
I need the proxy for from the outsite and have promox, unraid and homeassistant with a lot of docker container and machines with diffrent ports so I use the reverse proxy to access all these services with name instead of ip and port. Pro additional safty by blocking admin pages, exploits and so on. Homeassistant is just one part. Of it