But like I said, watching stuff (and I guess making playlists...) is the hobby for me, not downloading stuff or managing a server. Thats what started all this, I was keeping up with so many shows just with a calendar and a text file and streaming services and torrent searches I was spending more time keeping track of stuff than watching it, even with stuff like https://followmy.tv. I thought there must be a way to... Source: about 3 years ago

It's indeed suspicious. You're sending your voice samples, your various services accounts, your location and more private data to some proprietary black box in some public cloud. Sorry, but this is a privacy nightmare. It should be open source and self-hosted like Mycroft (https://mycroft.ai) or Leon (https://getleon.ai) to be trustworthy. - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

I was expecting this to be about Mycroft the AI assistant ( https://mycroft.ai/ ). - Source: Hacker News / 6 months ago

But I would recommend writing some proper glue logic in Python and use the socket function for communication. But if you really want to get rid of Alexa, it's probably worth it to set up mycroft.ai or another open source assistant. Source: 11 months ago

Https://mycroft.ai/ is a sophisticated open source replacement for Siri/Alexa … you can buy their premade hardware version for $399. Source: 11 months ago

To add home automation, consider something like Mycroft (https://mycroft.ai/). Source: 12 months ago