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The era of open voice assistants has arrived - Home Assistant (www.home-assistant.io)
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[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Are there difference between this and a 13$ M5 Atom Echo?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Yes

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago

Point given for accuracy of response.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

Like...?

Edit: I've bought the M5 some months ago but I haven't had the time to play around with it, should I buy this one and forget about the M5?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I have 2 of the Atoms; they're janky and need to be reset often, it doesn't pick up your voice very well, and you can barely hear the responses. 2/7

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

Thanks. Other 2 devices that I've bought out of excitement that will keep taking dust :( I'll try the "voice" and let's hope that I'll have time to set it up! 🙈

[–] blarth 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I set up the Atom and it isn’t great at picking up voice commands. It also seems to have trouble with stability.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Yeah the mic and speaker on the atom are OK if you are within 2 feet, beyond that they aren't any good. This looks good

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

I couldn't get mine to work properly at all. They're barely reacting to "okay nabu" and when they do they just misunderstand what I'm saying after the trigger words.