I want to get into HA, question about voice
Hello everyone, I’ve moved into my own apartment and want to setup smart home features. In the past the most I’ve done in my room was sensibo and a smart light with siri shortcuts. My main goal for the home is to have automations and have everything controlled via voice commands. I also wish to integrate some personal vibe coded apps for things like how many things I have from each food in my fridge etc (like be able to say “Hey _ how many eggs do I have?” - For this I have thought of running a custom app using netlify and a google firebase for cloud.
My questions are: What’s a recommended way to do voice control? From reading here I saw mixed thoughts on the voice PE device, if it works for simple things and using gemini with it works well enough then it’s fine for me, but I’d like to know if there’s a better option out there? Not looking to play music on it and the apartment is pretty small, I just want it to hear the wake up phrase and be able to use a cloud ai model like gemini (I don’t mind paying for the cloud subscription of HA if needed)
My second question is regarding the personal app- if anyone has any experience integrating an app like that with home assistant? Right now the app works by using a gemini api for understanding the phrases and updating the amount of groceries, but I wonder if it’s possible to make it work on the home assistant.
Last question- if doing this on cloud is the green enough for this use case? Along with ZBT-2 and a voice satellite? If I understand correctly that’s all I need to set this up?
I appreciate any help with these questions, thank you!