Ohhh that makes sense… Somehow… about Jeff Geerling. He always felt off to me in a way I couldn’t put my finger on. Guess now I have a proper reason not to watch him.

Also yes Alec is fantastic.

Thanks, I’m very happy to hear that!

I actually have things like “play x by y” functioning really well without a LLM.

Have a custom service that exports all song/album/artist names from MusicAssistant, does some simple cleanup, and places the list where HomeAssistant expects it for custom voice intents. Then this: https://github.com/charludo/hass-closest-intent is enough that imperfect STT can still easily be matched to those song/artist/… names.

I’m just gonna shamelessly plug my project here: https://github.com/charludo/hass-closest-intent

You do need local STT, but it’s fine if it’s somewhat bad; the conversation agent linked is sufficient to “get” what you meant, without LLM.

Awesome!! And thanks for actually letting me know! :D

Yes, you can! See the “threshold” value/slider. It’s at 0.7 by default, which seems to be a good tradeoff. 1 means exact match or failure, 0 will afaik match anything to everything.

Ah, I didn’t see the Edit, so we’re both in the same boat 😂

Yeah, fair :)

Finally got this through another comment below. No, this should not be able to happen, unless you yourself have created a custom intent + shell script action in home assistant that runs this. The integration itself does not execute actions/scripts or the like, it just finds the closest string in a list of strings, and then hands that to the official conversation agent/Hassil.

…do you think I’m a bot, or what is this?

Edit: ohh, that’s what the original comment was. Sorry. “lange leitung” today.

Please do! And if it does drive her crazy, please do open a bug report 😄

Yes, should be completely language agnostic. I’m not a linguist though, so take with a grain of salt 😅

There’s nothing language specific going on though, apart from a slight preference to split slots on word boundaries determined by spaces. So, might work a bit worse in e.g. Japanese.

❌ Sorry, I couldn’t understand that

Ahhh got it 😄 Yeah, I get/got similar stuff with Alexa. Honestly, the STT there is pretty impressive(ly fast), but sometimes it’s incredible nonsense.

I mean, you still need to activate the assistant with your usual wakeword. This/Hassil isn’t really intended to be constantly listening.

Or am I misunderstanding the question? 😅

This is the one true answer.

Just an IP, nothing else. And easily curlable.

Not arguing that. Of course there’s worse things.

But you must also acknowledge that it’s trivial to make this a non-issue. For example, I’ve seen lots of places where the door opens outwards with a kick. Or, even better (if slightly less space efficient) just have no door at all, and instead a short entrance with two 90 degree turns.

I think this is something that more and more places do anyways, basically any modern-ish place I’ve been to in recent years do the no-door-thing.

So? Like a their to half of people (sorry don’t remember the stat, just remember being shocked how high it was) do not wash their hands after using public toilets.

Why would I want to touch that doorhandle.

Definitely, yeah

• German (native)
• English (pretty well I hope; half my working life and almost all my free time spent on the internet, shows, books,… has been happening in English since, like, 8th grade)
• Japanese (learning; enough for talking about food, the weather, hobbies,… in somewhat acceptable grammar 😄)

Oh god yes

German?