Start looking into home assistant. It can accomplish most of the things you want.
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Yeah I have been and am super excited to get into it once I upgrade my homeserver, but my issue is the hardware devices. The ease of speaking into the void to set timers and get news, the intuitive Ring camera that automatically sends push notifications on movement detection. Idk how to replace these.
Home assistant has been working hard on voice assistants. I haven't set one up yet, but I believe it's pretty simple to get going. You may need to get comfy with esp32.
Maybe take a look at cheap ESP mics such as the one mentioned here, being cheap so you can have many scattered around is their whole thing. Sound quality isn't great but if it's mostly for input it can work. Not sure if replicating the Ring notifications is feasible.
This is the way.
I've used an Arlo camera system and it did NOT play well with homeassistant. Requiring an account, certain features behind paywall, I really can't recommend it. Maybe things have changed (or maybe some of it was user error) though.
Newer Siri devices don't need internet to do home automation. It's where I'm thinking of moving.
Is Nvidia's Shield TV any more private/secure than the FireTV? not a dig at OP, just curious because I haven't heard much about it.
Tbh I'm not sure out of the box. But I'd like to avoid Amazon as much as possible and I have to assume tinkering around and disabling telemetry and using a VPN etc. will be easier on the Shield.
Why not just get a NUC and run Kodi on it?