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With the release of the @openhomefoundation.org home assistant voice preview edition (one of which I have sitting on my desk) I start to think about replacing Google Assistant as the ubiquitous provider in our house.

Sadly that doesn't replace the Google nest hub devices we have sprinkled throughout, only the google nest mini's. For the kids room it'd be fine: those are mini's restricted to music and announcements. Basically all the strengths of HAVoice. Bonus points for the 3.5mm jack so we can do better audio

To jump start the process I've picked up a thinksmart android teleconfrence tablet with hopes to meet our needs with HA App for dashboards/cameras/Hey Nabu and immich frame screen saver for the photos. AFAIK wake words aren't supported on android app, but hopefully some day.

This will actually solve another problem we have: automations to display cameras out of Frigate when a doorbell rings or someone approaches just plain SUCK with google nest hubs as the targets. Hopefully we get more flexibility doing it this way.