I also use a kindle and try to buy most books away from Amazon so I imported the epubs from backerkit and read all the way through those without issue. Didn’t hear about anyone having issues

Where is rhe bad portion? the title and post are conflicting and it’s difficult to follow any of this

Here’s mine, slowly been simplifying it. Now just have mushroom cards, hue like light cards and mini media player to control my most used devices. Plus I rent so don’t have a smart thermostat or other rain or garage sensors.

I’m hoping to get this in the next few weeks, it’s perfect for my needs.

You can tweak noise supression and a few other settings

https://www.home-assistant.io/voice_control/thirteen-usd-voice-remote/#tweaking-the-atom-echo-configuration

I got an atom echo 2 months ago and was so happy when the wale word was added as before having to press the button and having it tethered defeated the purpose in my opinion.

Using the echo I make sure it’s in the same room as me (on a USB portable charger) and I get maybe a second or two delay. My issue has been setting up custom sentences to control a media player volume, followed their example in the docs for a media player but no errors and no action.

I also have a handful of athom smart plugs but I went the ESPHome firmware route directly from their shop. Just connected to WiFi and HA picked them up immediately.

Glad to hear no delays on this book, excited to receive it though I am still reading through Mistborn 2 for the next week or two still.

Got a link to what video you’re referring to? Mostly just curious, I’ve been using unraid for 2 years and only heard of SpaceInvaderOne

I haven’t dug into their policies or checked network traffic but I have a b0bsweep per hair slam and while I don’t believe it works with HA it maps my main floor and I was able to block it from public egress and put it on my subnet with DNS capture and filtering to a pihole and it has never once complained. Open the app and change a setting or click go and it does it. Haven’t tried adding it to HA yet because of that.

Yes the latest July release allows for voice assist over HTTP and internal access.

And HA blog has a post with a $13 mic which I bought and works but it needs to be plugged in and press a button to activate so rather limiting.