I believe that the Home Assistant will be the key to freeing myself from the Google ecosystem of personal assistants. Of course I will still want the YouTube Premium](https://www.youtube.com/premium) membership 1,790 THB/year (it might be 1,990 THB/year at the end of my current subscription), so that we keep the curse of advertisements at bay and also act as music discovery (actually not very good at that). Spotify is 149 THB/month and that makes it the same price as YouTube Premium which gives me basically the same music along with ad-free YouTube. Sure, it's a better app, but on Linux I can't run Spotify on Chromium, and frankly the app is pretty slow in the car.
All that said, I want to be able to do all the personal assistant stuff locally and with my own library of music.
Navidrome is my music server of choice. I actually sync all my music to my phone and use Symphonium on Android for direct play (no Internet needed). On the Android TV in our living room I also use Symphonium but it connects to the IP address of my work PC which runs Navidrome server (few resources used).
Navidrome can be accessed (as it has the Subsonic API) via Home Assistant, and therefore can be called as such via voice.
- Navidrome with Home Assistant
- Note that I should be able to repurpose the Google home devices (Google Nest Mini and Mi Smart Speaker) to use Symphonium using automations.
- May or may not use Music Assistant (with Home Assistant Integration)
- Some automation thoughts
- Github repositories regarding home assistant and navidrome
More on installing and configuring Home Assistant
More to go here...
Overall LLM, STT, TTS on Home Assistant
Network Chuck
Automations gone mad