So the Mycroft.ai Mark II smart speaker finally has a shipping date (although it is still 10 months in the future). Assuming they deliver, any chance of Hubitat supporting it as a voice assistant? They have a Home Assistant integration already.
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Nice! I just read about Genie today, which seems similar (but all DIY, no off-the-shelf product) and I initially thought was something new, but it appears to be a re-branding for the next version of Almond, which I'd considered trying out in the past. These frequent AWS outages are making me consider considering faster. 
(Turns out I like voice control in the morning more than I thought.)
I hadn't seen this one before, so I'll have to check it out too and am curious how they compare.
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Good lord it’s ugly!
Wow... Yes. That is just an amazingly unattractive device.
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Kinda looks like they put a small LCD screen on something that was last used in the ‘70s.
Love the idea of a local smart speaker though!
Reminds me a little of the Apple Lisa
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5 MHz CPU and 1 MB of RAM for less than $10K?
Sold!
I KNEW I had seen that design somewhere….
The innards might be great, but they seriously need to hire a good designer. That thing looks like it was designed by Stevie Wonder
And $299? No thanks...
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I run a modified mycroft on a pi4 so I know a little about the code. It would be relatively easy to integrate with hubitat via the maker api IF someone had a lot of time to write the python bits and the 'skill' files. Not all that hard just a long effort. My embedded mycroft/pi4 sends mqtt commands which my hubitat drivers listen on. Just a couple of switches - nothing difficult in groovy but my use is very limited.
If you think the amazon cloud is buggy and slow then you should experience mycroft.
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Here is a full exposition on this tool:
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Does anyone know if such a speaker would be available to Hubitat to speak a TTS notification?
I know that there are DLNA player packages that I could install on the PI where PiCroft is running to turn it into a DLNA speaker. Would that be enough to get some TTS to it?
If you have a pi and the associated audio out working and MQTT (sudo apt install mosquitto-clients) I have drivers so that can do TTS, chimes or/and sirens. It takes a little effort to setup.
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My thanks.
I will get back to you at a later date when I have everything ready (might be awhile).
Thanks again.
The README explains more than you want to know. https://github.com/ccoupe/mqtt-alarm/blob/master/README.md
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FullyKiosk for android has a rest api that you can send tts commands to. I send TTS commands to a tablet in my kitchen when my security camera detects a person approaching my home. The app also serves my Hubitat dashboard wonderfully.
Mine arrived today.
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Very cool! Could you share some pics?
