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Can you manage your house with a local, no-cloud voice assistant? Mostly, yes. (arstechnica.com)

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

When you don’t want lights on all the time, it’s a good option. You can’t program automations to do things you can’t detect automatically, such as eating vs snacking, or watching a scary movie with the spouse vs watching a “scary” movie with the kids, vs watching a kids movie.

You can automate a lot, but when you have overlapping routines that don’t work together, and don’t have a way to be detected, you’re limited in your options. Voice is one solution.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

automations

Heh. That's like "traffics".

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

In this case, I was referring to Home Assistant automations, where an automation is a cause and effect configured by the end user. So “automations” is a plural referring to a group of singulars.

Edit: A word