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Pine64 has started shipping their smart speaker! (pine64.com)
submitted 4 months ago by to c/homeassistant@lemmy.world
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[–] 10 points 4 months ago (7 children)

If it keeps playback functionality only on LAN then it could be a good replacement for the Google Home units I have stashed around that constantly need to ping home even for basic local playback.

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  • [–] 6 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    If you're talking about Google Home Mini or Google Nest Mini, there is a project on GitHub which replaces the PCB with an open alternative. The boards for the Home Mini are in production right now and Nest Mini is going to be the next.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

    Ooh, outstanding - I searched recently for whether it was possible to flash open firmware and that seemed to be a bust, but I never thought about a board replacement!

    Thanks for the link, I'll be looking into this with great interest.

    Edit: ah damn, just saw the price plus shipping to me, and it's a fair bit more than buying complete package other options. It's definitely an awesome initiative and this guy has done an admirable job, just might not be the best fit for me right now. I don't want to contribute to hardware waste, so will keep running what I've got instead of buying brand new speakers, but will keep an eye on this project for sure.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    That's true, it's not cheap. But I have a bunch of them in the house which work great as speakers, but I have trouble integrating them properly in Home Assistant. And there are hardly any alternatives in the same form factor.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago

    I had some trouble with them working with HA too, but a while back started running Lyrion Media Server as the backbone to all my local music streaming. Since then, they've all been pretty bulletproof (using the Lyrion/Squeezelite HA integration for all speakers, and no longer piecing together the integrations for the individual speaker types). YMMV, but FYI.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Does yours even work? I have a Polk Google nest capable sound bar and like 4 of the small nest mini speakers and the groups have always inconsistently worked and overall it works like utter shit.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Yeah I've got two sitting around and they work pretty well, but I'm annoyed that they need WAN access to stay working for playing my local media. Would prefer a WAN blackout at the router level to make sure that the microphone off toggle doesn't get "accidentally circumvented" by Google.

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