Google Smart home assistant or Alexa with Pi3?

I am looking to set up different home automation projects, just wondering which device from your own experience will work the best with Pi3?

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Andrew
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MG> Might help to know what you want to automate: MG> - light-sensing curtains? MG> - solar roof and home UPS? MG> - self-scheduling vacuum-cleaner? MG> - intruder detection? MG> - mousetraps? What brand home automation Mouse Traps do you use, and are they expensive? Does it tell you when they've tripped, and if they've caught a mouse? That sounds like an interesting idea!

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John H. Guillory

Might help to know what you want to automate:

- light-sensing curtains?

- solar roof and home UPS?

- self-scheduling vacuum-cleaner?

- intruder detection?

- mousetraps?

... the possibilities are endless

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Martin Gregorie

In order to do what, exactly?

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Rob Morley

The possibilities you have mentioned and more.

I was just concerned about the privacy from both Amazon and Google, so I found this that might be what I am looking for -

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Andrew

It depends on what you want to do. Google, Amazon and Apple are the problem if you insist on using things like Alexa because there isn't enough power in any of those things to do decent voice recognition. The result? If you leave the thing on 24/7 then you have an open mic in your house 24/7 because OF COURSE its listening continuously from the wake-up phrase - it if wasn't doing that most of its users would complain because it didn't always respond instantly. But, the chances of running good enough voice recognition to provide a reliable in-house butler system on an RPi3B are pretty small: its almost certainly going to need a lot more RAM and non-volatile storage that an RPi can comfortably provide.

A decent RPi Beowolf cluster might just about handle it, for some suitably sized definition of 'it'. They've been built and worked OK, but I have no idea what sort of problems they were used to solve - or what sort of mass storage system one might have been hooked up to.

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On a sunny day (Mon, 16 Apr 2018 09:54:08 -0700 (PDT)) it happened snipped-for-privacy@gowanhill.com wrote in :

That is very very expensive. Go to youtube.com , search for 'bucket mouse trap' Put a piece of metal and a microswitch at the bottom of the bucket, connect to raspberry GPIO, write some simple script to test the switch and send data with netcat anywhere. Alarm beeper on a GPIO out if must be. < 10$ IF you already have a raspi.

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Jan Panteltje

I thought the idea of the bit of metal at the bottom was it would be connected to several killervolts...

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On a sunny day (Mon, 16 Apr 2018 19:03:37 +0100) it happened The Natural Philosopher wrote in :

Yes, I tried a piece of wood with 2 blank wires connected to the mains. The mice jump, make a lot of noise, but do not die. In one of the youtube videos I think they had some water at the bottom, mouse drawns after some time. You still need a microswitch somehow to trigger the raspi. Or 2 electrodes, contact when water gets high enough... (mouse moving) I use that as water detector for in a boat with a raspi, one extra transistor needed:

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point 'W' goes to a GPIO input. The capacitor is to prevent RF sources triggering the thing.

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Jan Panteltje

That name has always made me think "Rent to kill". Looks like it might come true...

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