1 Feb 2025 |
ramblurr | I ordered three which arrived last weekend. Just hooked em up today and at first it didn't pair with HA but then I updated from 2024.10 to 2025.01 and then all three worked right away | 17:02:26 |
ramblurr | The initial setup to get the PE on wifi is done over Bluetooth, so you have to use the HA app or your HA instance has to have Bluetooth | 17:03:06 |
ramblurr | Initial impressions are good! I chose the Mycroft wakeword. It wakes reliably even from 2-3 m away.
Of course I'm not so thrilled with HA assist. It works fine for controlling HA entities but for everything else you might want to do.. well it isn't.
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delfshkrimm | french isnt supported yet locally so not an option for meee | 17:07:20 |
delfshkrimm | but will give it a try at some point for sure | 17:07:28 |
delfshkrimm | meanwhile OVOS + HA integration is already well functionning and does way more | 17:07:42 |
ramblurr | I'd love for these to be little OVOS satellites. The hardware is great. | 17:07:53 |
delfshkrimm | i think for the same price range you can have diy hivemind satellites that would work the same no? | 17:08:21 |
delfshkrimm | ofc not as pretty haha | 17:09:20 |
ramblurr | Same price range probably. But these days I am time poor, not money poor. | 17:09:24 |
delfshkrimm | i think you can have a linux running on the SoC that it uses so at some point maybe there'll be a simple flashing process to use the hardware and connect it to the hive | 17:10:51 |
ramblurr | I impulse bought these HA devices before Xmas on a whim and had them connected to HA in like 30 minutes.
Meanwhile the in progress OVOS satellites I started a year or more ago catches dust at my electronics workbench because I have no time to spare.
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delfshkrimm | yeah i feel you | 17:10:59 |
5 Feb 2025 |
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Henry Miller | I have a mycroft mark 1 which of course has been gathering dust for a few years. Is it worth trying to get this running again, I'm thinking of repurposing the pi3 inside for a home assistant dashboard, but I don't want to give up on voice sometime in the next couple years... I understand the mic on the mark I wasn't very good, and also the pi 3 is under powered. The first would mean give up (if I get the round to-it start from scratch), while the later would say upgrade it to a pi 4/5 if I do anything with it. Any advice before I tear this apart? | 19:48:30 |
JarbasAI | take this for a spin? https://github.com/OpenVoiceOS/raspOVOS | 19:49:07 |
JarbasAI | supports mk1 out of the box | 19:49:11 |
Henry Miller | I know support exists, but that means take this apart (the SD card died is why I stopped using it), and at that point I have higher priority projects so it will be months before I try the installer. | 19:50:48 |
JarbasAI | upgrading to a pi4 is painless and makes it way snappier if you are up to iy | 19:50:54 |
JarbasAI | * upgrading to a pi4 is painless and makes it way snappier if you are up to it | 19:50:56 |
JarbasAI | i actually upgraded by mk1 to a pi with a broken sd card slot and am booting mine from a usb drive, but to enable usb boot you need to set a flag in config.txt so might not work for you either... | 19:52:41 |
Henry Miller | that is what I was suspecting. I'll plan on upgrading it since I have to tear it apart anyway | 19:53:30 |
JarbasAI | raspOVOS is a ready to burn image, the ovos-installer is a different option but should also work | 19:53:35 |
JarbasAI | if you are into self hosting you can also use hivemind and make the mark1 a satellite device, see here for an idea of latency. even using a pi3 it can be very usable!
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Q6FAo_gPRms?feature=share | 19:55:43 |
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6 Feb 2025 |
builderjer | In reply to @jarbasai:matrix.org upgrading to a pi4 is painless and makes it way snappier if you are up to it I have 2 mark1's. One with the pi3, and one I put a pi4 in. I will see about making a STL of the backplate for the pi4 to make all of the peripherals accessible.
Also, a pi5 should fit in the mark1. A different hdmi cable will be needed, and HAS NOT been tested AFAIK. Also the RCA jacks will not work. But the backplane and raspOVOS should work.
Anybody who tests this, please let us know the results. | 00:30:46 |
builderjer | Also, anybody using, or trying to use a HiFiBerry product, please test this
https://github.com/OpenVoiceOS/ovos-i2csound/pull/22
This is specifically for the HiFiBerry DAC PRO, but if you have another, we can add support for that also. | 00:35:15 |
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7 Feb 2025 |
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