New on the blog: my Home Assistant setup on FreeBSD.

Home Assistant OS runs in a bhyve VM, but bhyve has no USB passthrough, so Zigbee2MQTT and Mosquitto live in a VNET jail with the ConBee II.

Homematic comes in via a CCU3, and three IKEA Matter-over-Thread devices use my Nanoleaf Shapes controller as their border router.

Three radio ecosystems, 474 entities, one dashboard.

https://blog.hofstede.it/my-home-assistant-setup-bhyve-freebsd-jails-zigbee-homematic-and-matter-over-thread/

#FreeBSD #HomeAssistant #bhyve #Zigbee #Matter #Thread #SelfHosting

PineVoice Release Announcement

Well, it's finally here. After two years of hardware and software development we are happy to introduce to you, the PineVoice (formally PineVox) Home Assistant speaker. The PineVoice features on device wake word detection, a dual microphone array, hardware volume and microphone cut off/mute buttons. The firmware also supports the Wyoming Satellite protocol.

In terms of hardware specifications we are looking at:
* CPU: Bouffalo BL606P (1x T-Head C906@480 MHz, 1x T-Head E907@320MHz)
* Memory: 32 MiB pSRAM, 788KB SRAM
* Storage: 16 MiB Flash
* Wireless: Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth 5.x Dual-mode (BT+BLE)

The speaker can be used on your own local cloud or you may decide to use Home Assistant’s cloud service instead. Pair it with a Quartz64, Rock64 or Avaota A1 to host your Home Assistant instance (hey, that rhymed! XD).

Additionally, the PineVoice has an optional Zigbee dongle accessory to plug into your server running Home Assistant. This allows Home Assistant to see your Zigbee smart devices, but is completely optional if you don’t use Zigbee.

Finally, the software for the PineVoice is not final and will see improvements in the future. Full transparency here, we were pinned to the wall with a strict production deadline. What is shipping works well but with some issues such as wake word detection. We are looking to use a better model for it in the future.

On behalf of everyone in the community we'd like to thank @gamelaster for their hard work on the PineVoice firmware. It would not have been possible to release the device at all without him. Someone surely owes him some sort of drink at least. Lets give a cheers to Gamiee!

The PineVoice is currently on sale for $49.99 USD and the Zigbee dongle is selling for $14.99 USD.

Links:
https://pine64.com/product-category/pinevoice/
https://wiki.pine64.org/wiki/PineVoice

Full blog post coming soon!

#pine64 #pinevoice #homeassistant #zigBee