Based on our record, Home-Assistant.io seems to be a lot more popular than SOUNDBOKS. While we know about 66 links to Home-Assistant.io, we've tracked only 3 mentions of SOUNDBOKS. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.
Have you checked out SoundBocks? https://soundboks.com. Source: 12 months ago
I had a look at the SoundBoks this weekend at an event I was playing at. It had only a 10ms delay which was pretty awesome. This is out of your price range at 1000 USD, but mentioning here for anyone else looking for wireless portable speakers: Https://soundboks.com/. Source: about 1 year ago
Starting Monday, April 4 at 4PM CET/7AM PST—and repeating every Monday at the same time for the following weeks—we will make a limited number of batteries available for sale on soundboks.com through the regular product page. We’re limiting purchases to only ONE PER CUSTOMER. It will be first-come, first-served, and when the week’s supply is gone—it’s gone. But there will always be the next week :). Source: about 2 years ago
HA is Home Assistant. You should check it out. Mushroom is an add on to HA’s interface that adds sone different style “cards” than what it comes with. Source: 10 months ago
Yes, there's Home Assistant that can work completely off-line. You can find multitude tutorials on youtube on how to set it up, even using cheap solutions like Raspberry PI. Source: 11 months ago
I'm going to suggest- you ever heard of Home Assistant? It's a really useful home automation tool you could integrate with weather and clock on a dashboard. As well, you could use it to control smart devices. Source: 12 months ago
As for the "what is playing" detection on my google minis. This is done with "https://home-assistant.io/". Source: about 1 year ago
The method that seems to work most reliability with all devices and all ecosystems is a Zigbee2MQTT software hub running on a computer alongside Home Assistant. The Z2M project has a list of compatible USB dongles which are typically around $20-30 (The Sonoff being a good one) but you still need a server (i.e. a small computer like a thin client or raspberry pi) and install and configure the software, so this... Source: about 1 year ago
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