I’m about to try some custom wake words, I can think of these so far:
- Hey Assistant
- Hey GlaDOS
- Hey Skynet
- Hey Tardis
- R2-D2
- CPU
- Computer
- Operator
I’ll use them for a while and see which one I like best.
What wake word are you using? Do you have some other cool ideas?
I don’t use any home assistant technology but I feel like yelling “Hail Satan!” into an empty room and getting a response would be fun
As a Satanist you have my vote!
This is exactly what I was looking for thanks. I’m not migrating to HA voice just yet, but when I do, you can be damn sure that “Hail Satan” will be the wake word.
Yeah, but you should use something that you don’t use in every day life ;P
“Satan, Play Emperor on the living room stereo”
‘Eeeey!’ or ‘Alter’ - ‘Alter, mach mal licht an’
When I had a Moto X way back when, I used “Would you kindly” as the wake word.
I miss that phone, and specifically the custom wake word functionality. Well, that and the wooden back.
I miss the Moto X. I’ve been known to nerdily use “prepare for voice command”.
thinkimg about this again - maybe something passive-aggressive would be nice.
‘someone should turn the lights on’ ‘maybe someone could start the vacuum cleaner’
How about “I say”…makes all your commands sound very posh.
I want to try ‘yo mother f****er’
When I lived with a guy who had loads of home automation, his wake word was “Hey Fuckhead!”
I’d go with “bitch, please”
“Jarvis”
Pardon my ignorance. If I want to replace my Echo dots at home, can I make some kind of like, home made ones? I like having them for light control and music etc. but. After having them a few years they certainly have limits and privacy disadvantages. I have all hue lights at home myself. The echos just act as interfaces. Nobody in the family really uses the web interface much for light control. It’s usually voice. Can I have my cake and eat it to? How? Raspberry pi?
I really hope somebody finds a way to upload custom firmware to Google or Alexa speakers. I like the hardware and the sound and I know I will not be able to build something as nice myself…
You might be interested in projects like https://openhab.org, or https://mycroft.ai
I have tinkered with mycroft in the past and it was kinda finnicky at the time, but overal a great idea(an assistant like google or alexa but privacy oriented). A colleague of mine uses openhab for everything but security(his wife objected to that lol).
For starters i’d recommend some single board computer like the a raspberrypi, a speaker and a microphone and maybe try one of these (https://www.electromaker.io/blog/article/9-best-raspberry-pi-smart-home-software-options) out yourself.
Thanks for taking the time to post about those projects. I have heard of Mycroft but not openhab. The future is bright 🤩
“Janet?”
“Marco, Arco…”
“Polo, Pilot.”
Arco is gonna be the name of my bike, if I ever finish building it, and I was thinking about setting it up with a Pi and some voice assistant integration (don’t ask me how. One thing at a time).
Pilot has some weird disassociative /existential fuckery involved in it.
Big E (warhammer 40k)
Central Scrutinizer, play Joe’s Garage on the living room stereo
I’ll definitely go for “hey Johnny” or just Johnny. Based on the self taken name of Number 5 from Short Circuit .
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