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Pine64 launch $50 smart speaker for Home Assistant tinkerers

edward · 80 points · 25 comments · vor 3 Stunden

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stuff4benvor 48 Minuten

I really wish someone would come out with a $25 "box" that sits on top of my bookshelf speaker that allows me to Airplay to it and power said speaker with a ~50w class-D amp. Then if I have multiple ones, it would allow them to pair and setup stereo or surround sound. I might even pay $50 for it. Kinda like a Sonos Amp but not at that price point.

someonebaggyvor 3 Stunden

I'm half surprised they are still around as they seem to never restock most of their products, and half pleased they are still around and releasing products.

joshstrangevor 3 Stunden

I’ll wait for the reviews. I bought the Home Assistant Voice Preview device and it was underwhelming. Bad speaker, bad mic, bad pickup. I really wanted to like it but my Echo blew it out of the water. I’m deep into the HA system so I cannot wait for Echo-quality that I can attach to my HA.

bArrayvor 1 Stunde

> With just 32 MiB of embedded pSRAM memory and 16 MiB of flash, and 128 KiB ROM storage, the specs may sound meagre – although in the current AI climate, generous – but this is an embedded device not a full-blown PC hiding in an aroma diffuser1. It somewhat reminds me of the PineCube, which had 128MB DDR3. Once the Linux tax was paid it was basically unusable. > Factory shipped firmware is open-source and provides Wyoming Satellite, compatible with assistence platforms such as Home Assistant. They are at least supposed to be able to show it working with some factory software [1]. I would have just liked to have seen some edge compute capability. [1] https://pine64.org/documentation/PineVoice/

simonmalesvor 2 Stunden

Would love for Pine64 to thrive. I don't own any of their products, but I am glad they exist.