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View Assist provides visual feedback for the Home Assistant Assist voice assistant using a collection of different automations, custom sentences, scripts, and extensions with the view being displayed on any Android device. The project is at proof-of-concept (POC) phase but is fully functional.
^^^ Click for demo video on Youtube ^^^
WARNING I am not a programmer I am just someone who knows just enough to be dangerous. I am 100% certain that better ways exist than the way I am doing things and I am hoping that the HA community will continue to help improve this project through code submissions and comments in the issues section.
The information in this repo is separated into different subdirectories with additional readmes in each. This project is designed so that you can pick and choose the parts that you want for your needs. The custom sentences can be modified for those who may only be interested in voice only. The dashboard views may be interesting to others who are writing their own custom sentences.
UDPATE: I've been made aware of a really cool device and I've been working on getting it to work with View Assist. The Lenovo Thinksmart device is a nice Android tablet with a nice sounding speaker at an unbelievably low price (~$40 USD). https://amzn.to/4bRBnhk
Join the View Assist Discord: https://discord.gg/3WXXfGAf8T
This Wiki is a work in progress with more information to come. This notice will be removed when everything is fully documented. Please excuse the mess until then
We are closing in on complete roll out with only a few more items needing to be sorted. I am pleased to say that support for the project is fantastic with a good number of folks helping out on Discord. We are growing in number of both Discord users and Youtube subscribers which gives the project more visibility and the number of people lending a hand is growing in turn. The goal is to have everything rolled out and start pumping out custom sentences and views to expand the capabilities of View Assist.
All videos and wiki pages are now available for creating the Assist satellite devices using Stream Assist for wake word detection. At present, someone should be able to go through the wiki and/or Youtube videos and install the components necessary to create a device that will listen for wake word and then action and respond. Next steps are underway for tying these devices into the View Assist system. The first video for this was uploaded today with a few more to follow before the complete View Assist configuration series is complete. We have some good folks beta testing VA on the Discord channel and it is fantastic to see them get their VA system running and the excitement that follows. More good stuff coming soon.
Things are pretty crazy with work and life events but these should settle down next week. Despite this I have managed to release a few videos. I'll be honest, I am not in this to make flashy Youtube videos with cool WLED lighting. What you see is what you get. I am here to help others set up View Assist and to build a foundation for easy to share, expandable functionality for Assist with all satellites being able to operate both as a group and individually. The videos are one shot recordings and there will be hiccups but I'll do my best to address anything needing to be corrected in the comments and here on the wiki. The videos are really a means to provide additional context to the wiki.
If you haven't checked out the Youtube channel please take a look and, not to sound cliché, like, subscribe, and comment as this will help draw a larger audience and perhaps some other contributors.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCm1i3EkmUwsQnrbq_Sr37jw
Decided that it may be wise to include some status updates as if you look at the file upload dates it appears that the project is not active. Nothing could be farther from the truth. As it stands now, some major enhancements have been implemented. Some of these include:
* Ability to control displays individually
* Modes have been enabled as well as do not disturb
* Ability to include voice only satellites both with onboard wake word (eg ESP32) and with HA handling the wake words (eg anything using Stream Assist)
* Additional custom sentences for media playback, volume control, weather forecast, shopping list, setting alarms and reminders, and others
The delay in posting is due to the need to tighten things up and reduce the amount of effort required for users to implement and to better handle errors. I have made a lot of progress on this front and hope that I will be able to release the enhanced version soon
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