Just wanted to pick the brains of some people far more capable than me for advice on a new project that I’m playing with:
I recently started experimenting with Voice Assist on my Android phone using the companion app in advance of moving over to Voice Assist PE units at some point (depending on future developments regarding wake-words, etc.). I’ve got Whisper and Piper running in Docker containers on a mini-PC and I’m loving it so far – response times are tolerable and the TTS sounds great. My only issue with my current set up has been that I’m not completely satisfied with having the responses broadcast over my phone speaker.
So the other day I finally found a temporary solution until I find something more robust – I’ve installed Kodi on my PC and enabled DNLA, then set Kodi to display on a non-existant desktop tied to the Sony receiver connected to that PC. I set the response to conversation to " " in my automation, generate TTS with Piper and send it to Kodi to be played over my HTPC receiver.
Works like a charm, but a little clunky and inconvenient. Does anyone know of a way of just directing Assist to use a device specified in a variable (perhaps a Helper) so that I can then automate responses to be sent to entities based on occupancy? For example, if Den occupancy is true and Loft occupancy is false, then send TTS to Kodi_Den type of thing. If I can bunch this stuff together with a couple of helpers and scripts, that would be perfect.
Is this possible or am I being to idealistic again? TIA
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