In reply to a post by andynormancx:

Maybe not yet, but I have little doubt it will be.

Also Gemini is further along than Siri, it does now have the ability to take various actions on the phone while also providing the usual conversational LLM/GPT stuff.

Looks like Amazon will be probably be announcing their version of Alexa combining what it does now with LLM/GPT functionality.

https://www.reuters.com/technology/amazon-set-releas...

"interesting" times...

I don't buy expensive phones, so I doubt they will have the resources to run some of the stuff and I presume even if it is integrated, there will be some way to disable it.

As for Alexa, i heard it was coming, but I read that they have had some problems with it, and it caused a lot of problems with smart devices, I presume they have sorted that out. I will keep to normal Alexa. i can understand they want to make money from it and why they will charge for the new AI, but I am not interested in it, have they solved the hallucinating problems with LLM?

It is interesting to see if it works.

In reply to a post by andynormancx:

Oh, you don't want to see the mess that is my home automation setup. A horrible mixture of HomeKit (Apple), Hue (Philips), Amazon smart plugs/Alexa, Eve Weather sensors (some HomeKit, some Matter) and now native Zigbee.

Making sense of that and simplifying all of that is a work in progress, which Home Assistant is helping with a lot. Aiming now to just simplify everything down to native Zigbee via Home Assistant (I had hoped that Thread+Matter was going to be the answer, but so far for me they have been totally unreliable).

Same here really, I have a load of Wi-fi smart plugs, some smart TRVs for the radiators and a smart thermostat that most people have not heard off as I had it fitted by a energy company a few years ago, that is the thing that will not work in home assistant, it is not recognised. I have Philips Hue and switchbots to turn on my coffee machine, outside backlight and my kitchen light.

I also have some swithbot curtain movers, but they don't work on my curtains, i think they are two heavy, shame really.