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Pine64 has started shipping their smart speaker!
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I just set two of these up. I'm not a HA guy so my HA server only has these assistants, my Sonos system, and Music Assistant set up.
I'm still fussing through setting up tasks, but it's slowly turning into ~~Alexa~~ Jarvis.
I have it set up to play, pause/stop music from music assistant with a really hacky yaml script.
It can tell me the weather forecast.
That's all local processing with Whispr(stt) and Piper (tts).
For those who want the "tell me the tallest mountain in the world" type of support, the answer is cloud llms. I tried ollama on my PC, but it's just too slow. I have an opencode go subscription and that works pretty well with deepseek-v4-flash. You can also use a standard open ai api key with one of the nano or micro models.
It works, not quite as good as Alexa, but it's not bad.
How does music sound on it?
I use Sonos speakers to play music, so the device is not a speaker for music output. It's just for commands received and response. I read that it doesn't support playing music yet. The speaker is clear for voice though.