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The era of open voice assistants has arrived - Home Assistant (www.home-assistant.io)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/homeassistant@lemmy.world
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[–] 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years 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.

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