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Speech Recognition
I don't know but I am finding it extremely hard for Homey to pick up an australian accent. It almost never works, can anyone suggest a work around? it worked fine for the first few days of receiving this when it had the "train your voice" option. Better australian recognition, would be awesome. Not much of a question, but Just wondering if anyone else is experiencing the same issue
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I am afraid it is not only you and the accent. Here in UK is the same, I am not native but my friends have Canadian and Cambridge accents (one of the clearest and balanced accents) and they have no success with homey either.
It works for some Dutch guys only and they are happy with that.
If you want IR to work buy Harmony hub.
If you want Voice to work than buy Google home or Alexa.
Quite sad.
Set region or something like that, perhaps?
Google Home/Amazon Alexa isnt available in Australia sadly
But that most of the time that made it worse anyway.
Just wait for homey update 1.2.x speech filtering has improved in that version, maybe also for the better with an Australian accent.
You can already "test".
If the voice recognition is pretty good with the mobile app, you can have some high hopes that it will get better for homey itself too
There was a time when English taxi drivers thought that I was American, so I don't think that my pronunciation should be a problem.
I hope it is a software issue and not hardware.
The speech recognition was their thing!
It happened often that I said that Ok homey Turn the lights OFF. (or close the blinds) and it turns ON all the lights. Then trying to rectify it by saying 5+ times to turn off the lights but still no luck and app is broken. So leaving me with one option to walk through the house and switch off ALL the lights manually. And than the Athom fanatics tells you don`t be frustrated that`s rude.
And I believe you can also use a simple KlikAanKlikUit remote to trigger flows. That way you can have a remote with several buttons to do multiple things.
More than enough alternatives to speech, I think. Although I do agree that the speech recognition could be better. On the other hand: is having to tell Homey what to do really 'smart'? I think it's smarter if those things work without any extra user actions. Like walking into a room to turn the lights on and turning them off when everybody left.
I'll have another look at better logic then, if I click to add bit flip it just says no new devices found. Nothing intuitive here.
What you're saying seem to be workarounds, it would be nice to just have an official way that allows us to add virtual device, point it at another device or flow. Done!
A number of times we just need buttons to press on an easy to navigate dashboard. The webpage and windows app doesn't give us an easy to use interface to do that. I've tried that dashboard app and its a step in the right direction at least..
For the Better Logic devices, you first have to create a boolean variable (in the Settings) and then create a device which uses that variable.
I agree that the Windows app or webpage are not very easy to just switch some devices, but that's because their primary target is building flows. It's also a hassle to first open a laptop/PC and navigate to the website/Windows app just to switch the lights on.
The Android app is used to control the devices and it's working quite well for me. If you really need manual control, this is the easiest way.
Thanks, I'll see if I can make use of the Better Logic method.
"KlikAanKlikUit" for international customers: http://www.trust.com/en/smarthome
Find it odd this wasn't a default in homey, and potentially shot down as an idea by them.. but great that others are making this work!