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Suggestion: Acoustic confirmation that Homey is listening
I think it would be great if Homey had the option to give a subtle acoustic signal once it is listening. At the moment, you can only find out of Homey understood your "Okay Homey" command, by looking at the led ring.
I guess you *could* use a flow to have homey answer with "yes?" on every speech trigger, however, this might cause clashes with follow up voice output or with speech input. I might also be too slow (i.e. the "yes" response might be delayed slightly due to the underlying processing needed).
I guess you *could* use a flow to have homey answer with "yes?" on every speech trigger, however, this might cause clashes with follow up voice output or with speech input. I might also be too slow (i.e. the "yes" response might be delayed slightly due to the underlying processing needed).
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"Ok, Homey!"
- "Yes?"
"Can you turn of the lights?"
- "Sure!"
@Fire69 - you can almost do it without delay
@Jacob - I can see what you are saying, but fact remains that Homey doesn't trigger 100% of the times and it might not always be in visual range. The beauty about voice commands is that you can give them while doing something else. So confirming a voice command with an audible queue instead of the current visual one actually makes more sense to me.
If I say 'Ok Homey, what time is it' I'd expect homey to reply with the answer. If I say 'Ok Homey' and then pause I'd like to hear confirmation that homey is in 'listening mode'.
It would be great if the confirmation would be configurable, a 'ding' sound, or spoken text for example.
I agree with @michael that having homey answer will make it more natural.