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Home Assistant is open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first. Powered by a worldwide community of tinkerers and DIY enthusiasts. Perfect to run on a Raspberry Pi or a local server. Available for free at home-assistant.io

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The era of open voice assistants has arrived - Home Assistant (www.home-assistant.io)

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Why would it need 5GHz? At most it needs to do two audio streams, which aren't going to need lots of bandwidth

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago

Interference. Especially in apartment complexes, the 2.4Ghz band is busy, causing a lot of packet drops and random disconnects.