Home Assistant

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/10882099

Thankfully I don't use any of their products, but this really pisses me off. They claim that this open source project "causes significant economic harm to their company"

This is ridiculous. It is truly ridiculous. How can something that enables the user to efficiently control their AC cause "significant economic harm"???

Consider forking the repository or mirroring it to another platform like GitLab, Codeberg or your self-hosted Git server, so the project can continue to exist and someone can maybe fork it and maintain it.

The effected repos are: https://github.com/Andre0512/hOn and https://github.com/Andre0512/pyhOn

If you don't know about Home Assistant, check it out. It's an amazing piece of open-source software, that you can run at home on your own server and use it to control your smart home devices. That way, you don't need to connect them to the manufacturer's (probably insecure) cloud. It gives you sovereignty over your smart home instead of some proprietary vendor-locked garbage. Check out their website and the Lemmy community: !homeassistant@lemux.minnix.dev

I also highly recommend Louis Rossmann's video about this: https://youtu.be/RcSnd3cyti0

He makes awesome videos in general, consider subscribing.

As Rossmann said, don't ever buy anything from such a shitty company that doesn't respect their customers. This move by Haier is nothing other than a slap in the face for everyone, who just wants to comfortably control the product they paid for. This company is actively hostile towards their paying customers. Fuck these bastards!

I'm confused by the different elements of HA's voice assistant sentences.

1. What's the difference between a conversation and an intent_script? Per HA's custom sentence example, a conversation has an intents sub-element, and an intent_script doesn't. Does a conversation's intent merely declare the element that will respond to the sentence, while an intent_script is purely the response (i.e., does an intents point to an intent_script)?

2. HA then explains that while the example above defined the conversation and intent_script in configuration.yaml, you can also define intents in config/custom_sentences/. Should you use both of these methods simultaneously or will it cause conflict or degrade performance? I wouldn't think you should define the same sentence in both places, but the data structure for their 2 examples are different - is 1 better than the other?

In configuration.yaml:

conversation:
  intents:
    YearOfVoice:
      - "how is the year of voice going"

In config/custom_sentences/en:

intents:
  SetVolume:
    data:
      - sentences:
          - "(set|change) {media_player} volume to {volume} [percent]"
          - "(set|change) [the] volume for {media_player} to {volume} [percent]"

3. Then they say responses for existing intents can be customized as well in config/custom_sentences/. What's the difference between a response and an intent_script? It seems like intent_script can only be defined in configuration.yaml and responses can only be defined in config/custom_sentences/` - is that right?

Thanks for any clarification you can share.