$ w elrey

• Experience: IT/security for 50...  I mean 7 years... :)
• Work: Secure Ideas
  • Pentester
  • Ops
  • Developer
• Community
  • Professionally Evil
  • 49th Security Division

Hardware

• Home Assistant Voice (preview edition)
• GL.iNet (Slate)
• System76 Serval WS

Software

• Home Assistant
• Ollama - tools
• rhasspy + wyoming protocol
  • whisper.cpp - STT
  • Piper - TTS - Alan Pope
  • openWakeWord
• Containers (Docker)
  • Nvidia Graphics - LLM acceleration

Setup

Initial Join

Conversation

Demo Time - Provisioning

Demo Time - Voice

Extras

• Restarting HA PE
• Play Music (alarm clock)
• Change color of HA PE

All Local - Pros/Cons

Pros

• All local
• Integrates with HA
  • Choose to include
• Custom wake word
• External is modifiable

Questions?

$ exit

Blog Post: elrey.casa/v1.5-popey

Resources:

• Networkchuck videos

  • before HA Voice PE

  • review of HA Voice PE