Automagic Premium VS Almond

MacroDroid is the one that's easiest to use, among the powerful ones. Tasker has more power for detailed functions but the interface is hell. Or, if you want free, I always suggest Automagic, from automagic4android.com. It has the best interface and is more powerful than MacroDroid, but the dev gave up on it and decided to give it away. If you try that, you'll have to use version 1.37 (unless you're using android... Source: about 1 year ago

MD has a free version limited to 5 macros, with unobtrusive ads. If you want free, then try Automagic, free from automagic4android.com as abandonware, but you'll have to use version 1.37 if you're using Android 12 or above. Source: about 1 year ago

Automagic is still available from the website, for free. automagic4android.com. If you have android 12 or 13, you will need to get version 1.37, not the latest one. Thanks to goolag. Source: about 1 year ago

One more thing: If you don't use them already, you might look into some automation apps. My top rec. For new users is MacroDroid. It's basically straightforward scripting, and easy to learn. Some people hate the idea of trackers, and MD has quite a few, because the base version is free. Tasker is also scripting but the interface was very badly designed and it's more complex, and seems to have more quirks (like you... Source: over 1 year ago

If it were me, I'd install Automagic (free now from automagic4android.com) and use the overlay feature available in the "Control UI" action, and see if those things are something that can perform functions. You might be able to figure out what app it's from by that. You may have to enable extra permissions for it using ADB in order for that to work, but there are tutorials for that all over the place, and it's... Source: over 1 year ago

The key feature I haven't seen any of these opensource projects implement is microphone response coordination: If you have multiple microphones and speakers, which one responds? My google home's are terrible at this: often one in another room responds, but at least it's only one. When I tried to run Genie (https://genie.stanford.edu/) I had multiple devices responding simultaneously. It was a disaster. For me,... - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

It's incredibly easy to do (caveat - at least if you're familiar with software dev already). Most thermostats are literally just digital thermometers that control a relay that turns the furnace/ac on and off. A simple arduino (or much cheaper IC) can easily do the same thing if you wire it in. And then on the software side... there's several large, open-source projects that exist in this space and provide nice api... - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

Because there's surely enough software available, right (i.e. susi.ai, Mycroft, Kalliope, DeepSpeech, leon, Jasper, Vosk or Genie)? Source: about 2 years ago

On the home assistants, it’s actually a cool solution. What they do is actually use a local ML algorithm to recognize the alert word (hey Google, Alexa, etc.) and only when they hear it do they stream the audio to their inference servers. There are things like almond which is entirely self hosted option I’d like to move to eventually. Source: about 2 years ago

I think a key feature of a smart speaker is the voice assistant. The only privacy aware I know of is Almond (AKA Genie) from Stanford[1]. I don't think there is any commercial speaker using Almond out there. However, Im betting you could DIY it. [1] https://genie.stanford.edu/. - Source: Hacker News / about 2 years ago