@mitch I read this book, and then saw the movie as a kid, it always stuck with me.

@mellowdave I have in the last two weeks, setup an initial (fully internally processed, not cloud based) voice assistant to control the things I’d like to work that way. Since I assigned my own name to the device, I dont have to worry about a YouTube video triggering it, and it doesn’t do asinine things, like “accidentally” turn off the ice maker when I want it to turn on the bathroom fan.

@mellowdave I started the process with a simple RP5 running Home Assistant. Right now, I have a full Nabu Casa hardware suite, a failover RP5 with a backed up HA instance, and a third RP5 running Pi-Hole. When I turn off the ISP router, all my automations still work, I can still control my lights, locks, and cameras, and I’m quite pleased. If you’ve considered it, I highly recommend it. I’m less than 600.00 all in at this point, and I consider my home genuinely smart. It reports the actual status of things I actually care about, not what’s on sale at *mazon today.