I have 5 of the older generation google home speakers that i dont use because google assistant got dumber and dumber so that in the end it was just easier to get up and turn off the light instead of having google do it.

It seems like a waste though to throw them away. Could I re purpose them in any way?

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      6 months ago

      Shame nobody has been able to reuse the existing Google board but this is probably the next best thing. Might have to pick up a few boards.

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        6 months ago

        I can’t wait for the time when we figure out how to make open hardware mandatory for things like this. I fully accept there will be times when you companies have to make things with never seen before secret methods to edge out competitors. But a speaker? That absolutely shouldn’t be tethered to the whims of a corporation.

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      6 months ago

      I’ve been slowly building up the hardware to fully support this! The projects look cool as hell, I want to fully enable another instance of my llm so I can chat with it. This is the cool side of AI. Big corpos have big advertising plans but for me, self hosting it has been a blast

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    6 months ago

    Mine just had it’s speaker stop working, I now have a google nest audio without audio output.

    My glorified lightswitch is actually pretty nice like this. And it doesn’t take a minute to explain I haven’t got my google tv plugged in, cuz it never is anymore