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Missing link
I trying to imagine how homey is going to function in my house. I am hoping it will be a centralised hub to conduct all my home automation applianced by voice command. The problem I am facing is that I want to have the voice access thoughout my house, not only in the room where homey is located. In some of the interviews on youtube I found that same question, will there be a mic extension.
I believe the homey team would love to have me buy a homey for every room. But that seems a bit overkill.
5 rooms X 299,- = 1495,-
I love the idea of homey but that is a big bil to pay for a mic extender. Wouldn’t it be a good idea to create a small homey slave that simply relays the audio from the rooms to homey and IR commands from homey to the rooms? That way all scripts stay in one single managed location. An alternative could be a stripped homey OS for the a raspberry PI with a mic and IR attached to fulfil this role.
What do you guys think?
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Probably this not what you had in mind but might be an inspiration:
How about a wall mounted/recessed 100€ nexus 7 tablet (or similar) and a running android app. The device has WIFI, mic, speaker, visual interface and the app has voice activation.
The IR, hmmm... that is a bit of pain. Although there are IR accessories for android devices but the app does not have plugins at the moment but hopefully that will change soon.
a tablet would be the best choice i guess, but also rather expansive.
And what if 2-3-4 kids are sleeping and you want to turn on the TV in your bedroom?
You almost need to yell at Homey 3 meters across your bedroom and hope the kids stay a sleep.
Switches and remotes will stay in homes for years
Give me 1 super smart remote for every room with a mic, small display, user
Therefore I ordered one Neeo remote for testing.
Hacking into this: https://www.conrad.nl/nl/apple-siri-afstandsbediening-1398712.html would make me happy With iBeacon functionality it would even know where I am in my house.
Neeo is a possible solution if supported by Homey, but as it's almost as pricey as Homey this is not for everyone (i.e.: me! ). As is Athom's "solution" of placing a Homey on every floor \ in every room. There are much cheaper alternatives (at least for IR support).
Hope the homey crew can voice there input on this matter.