Home Assistant's Year of the Voice Is Over

Thanks to everyone for making it an incredible Year of the Voice! As you showed, Lewis, there's still lots of bug fixing and polishing to be done. Very glad to be continuing at Nabu Casa; no sad music for Mike 😄

Now that everything is complete (kind off), a step-by-step video on how to setup your Home Assistant for voice would be great.

I wish it would be the year of "user-friendliness" aka the year of the "not so much learning curve". I'm technologically savvy, but Home Assistant is overwhelming. I still have not dared trying to create from-scratch automations beyond using already created blueprints, and even that is sometimes complicated.

Would definitely love a tutorial on the raspberry pi satellite. I've had problems setting them up and I'm sure it's something I'm doing wrong haha

I hope the next year is going to be a year of the dashboard. I really annoy me how difficult it is to design a responsive dashboard with the grid pattern that works on mobile, desktop and a tablet. Right now, all you get is 'wonky' cards with different widths and heights. Aligning this is a total pain in the ass, using card-mods, mod-cards, and unless you know CSS, good luck with that. This should be a number one priority, as a functional dashboard is a fundamental feature for the user. Yes, cards are mostly OK, but I still cannot easily set their dimensions or easily scale them. Rant over.

Thanks for a good round up of the Year of the Voice, Lewis. Probably the most ubiquitous home automation is the programmable thermostat - yet this is almost impossible to do in HA. We have a nice GUI for thermostats but schedules are binary and cannot be attached/modified via the thermostat GUI.

Definitely give us a video of the pi! I have a spare pi 3b id love to put to use

Please make a video of local wake word in a raspberry 3-4 satellite! 🙏

I wonder if it would be possible to make an app that is compatible with older phones, that we have laying around, to scatter them around the house, and use them as local smart speakers, interfacing with HA. Also, that raspberry pi thingy would definitely be a good video, imo.

Year of temperature control, would love to see better scheduling and planing of temperature regulation.

Thanks, Lewis, for addressing this. Happy Christmas!

Agree, dashboard setup for multiple displays should be totally independent of each other. Also drag and drop would be awesome.

I can see 2024 being the Year of the Dashboard. They hired Paul Bottein (the mushroom card developer) in 2022. I fear that because of the hype cycle, 2024 could end up as the Year of AI.

how about the year of making it easier to use? That would be something!! I love how when I log in there's a notification that HA has discovered a new device on my network but never tells me what it is! That's so much fun right?

I'd love to see the video on the RaspPi satellite! I'm planning to poke at it at some point soon, and having an up to date guide to follow would be amazing

I would really enjoy a year of the dashboard. My other guess would be something like "year of the ai" because it's such a hyped topic at the moment

Would love to see more satellite and voice control setup videos and related content please. Thanks for a great video. Cheers.

I enjoyed today's video as I always enjoy all of your videos. Hope you have a Merry Christmas and a safe prosperous New Year!

The voice implementation is rough. Howver, I haven't tried the whole voice subscription thing, as one of the biggest points of home assistant is to not be under the thumb of subscriptions. I've also got all of my own subscriptions to everything this would need to offload to a server. Trying to go the route of the local voice processing has yielded nothing of value for me since it apparently cannot control devices on the network, so... great? I dont understand how there was a years worth of focus to end up with what we have. That or perhaps I haven't set it up right somehow. It should be the Year of Community Integration. I shouldn't have to go down the needlessly difficult road of setting up HACS to get about 1/3 of my devices to barely function. Or Year of the Presence Detection would be nice.

Your description of the s3 box stopping processing is exactly the same as I'm experiencing. Watching the debug is seems anywhere between 1 and 3 commands are given and the pipe "crashes". Only toggling off and back on the "use wake word" option seems to fix this (or rebooting the Box). Mine is still on ESPHome 2023.11.3. It's cool early demo, but clearly still alpha stage.