Forget Alexa, get local voice control! (Snips, Mycroft, etc)

mr_smith

I care a lot about privacy, and only want my smart home hub to connect to the internet if absolutely necessary (updates, installing plugins).

I couldn’t find anything on the forum, but has anyone connected something like Snips to Pimatic? It turns voice commands into MQTT messages, and does this completely locally.
https://snips.ai/

It’s quite popular with Home Assistant, for example.

leader21

snips seems to be a quite useful tool have seen it on the local maker space.

Yves911

Snips is exactly what i am looking for (no need of internet, privacy).
I have just installed the weather demo and i confirm that it works well.
Now how can we interface it with pimatic?

mwittig

@yves911 said in Forget Alexa, get local voice control! (Snips, Mycroft, etc):

Now how can we interface it with pimatic?

As far as I can see the straightforward approach is to use MQTT. It requires some minimal MQTT bridging to map the published intents to something which maps to state information which then triggers the corresponding pimatic actions internally. This does not necessarily require a pimatic plugin as the MQTT plugin we have should suffice. The MQTT bridging can be seen as a component of the Snips framework. I think the write-up for Homeassistant can be used as good starting point. Unfortunately some parts are access restricted

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Yves911

Thanks, looks promising…

mosquitto_sub -v -t ‘hermes/intent/#’*

hermes/intent/bluevert:lightsTurnOff {"sessionId":"a7347ec8-d4d8-4be6-a887-c36980643aea","customData":null,"siteId":"default","input":"éteins la lumière","intent":{"intentName":"bluevert:lightsTurnOff","probability":1.0},"slots":[]}