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The era of open voice assistants has arrived - Home Assistant (www.home-assistant.io)

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[-] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

Only 2.4GHz WiFi?

[-] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

Why would it need 5GHz? At most it needs to do two audio streams, which aren't going to need lots of bandwidth

[-] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago

Interference. Especially in apartment complexes, the 2.4Ghz band is busy, causing a lot of packet drops and random disconnects.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

I've eliminated 2.4GHz wifi in the house for this reason.
The only downside is, I really need to get a couple more WAPs installed.

HA has been dead handy when I occasionally need to use an old device, as I can flip the second radio on from a dashboard.

this post was submitted on 19 Dec 2024

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