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It’s crazy how subsidized a Kindle is. I recently paid 60€ on sale for a brand-new Paperwhite. That has a superior display, and requires no extra work. It’s even worse if you look at voice-assistants, On sale, you can probably get 3-4 echo dots for the price of the materials of a single self-built one…
I mean those Echo Dots come with a huge hit to your privacy as a cost. Not to mention how susceptible the Echo Dot has been in the past. Hell some expeditious hackers even got the Echo Dot to hack itself.
As I said, subsidized. But luckily, Home Assistant finally added the last pieces I needed to make a second attempt at building my own. I have the microphones, an old PI3, and some cheap USB speakers to make a proof of concept, if everything works, I’ll get some Pi Zero 2’s or comparable devices, more speakers, and replace the Echo’s.
Yeah I have an Rpi Zero for interfacing cheaper devices with HomeKit so I feel you. I’m just not going to use an Echo Dot when I already have a bunch of HomePods lol.