FutureProofHomes Satellite1

Using a bunch of satellite1s, printed my own cases, rn using fasterwhisper and piper on a 16gb Mac mini, it takes like no horsepower at all. It’s the queries that fall thru to an LLM that can suck. I’ve got a model running on another mini and it’s… ok.

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Check the Satellite 1. I found they have a much better mic pickup than the HAVPE and you can either create your own cabinet for them, use their designs already created, or purchase a pre-fab enclosure, or buy the entire thing pre-built. The output is good with the 3" Dayton driver, even better with the 2-way enclosure. The setup process is very easy either using the companion app or if you have bluetooth on your HA installation to adopt it. I have a couple of GH Max speakers with the mic disabled. Using a Satellite 1 I split the output (L & R) to the input of each speaker (the GH Max was the …

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FutureProofHomes Satellite1 Voice Assistant available for preorder. I had been following this project a while back. It's using the same PE that Nabu does. It does have some benefits in some areas although outside having 4 mics and a 25W amp the rest are pretty user specific like mmwave, light sensor and some other sensors. There are 2 parts, the main board and the ESP32 HAT. The one advantage of having the ESP32 separate is he said it could be upgraded so when say, the P4 works in ESPHome, you could buy a new HAT. It's going to be a while before that happens, C6 and H2 still aren't available …

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