esp-web-tools VS privacybadger

Some feedback to make your project easier to install and integrate better with Home Assistant (I'm the founder):

Home Assistant is building a voice assistant as part of our Year of the Voice theme. https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2023/04/27/year-of-the-vo...

As part of our recent chapter 2 milestone, we introduced new Assist Pipelines. This allows users to configure multiple voice assistants. Your project is using the old "conversation" API. Instead it should use our new assist pipelines API. Docs: https://developers.home-assistant.io/docs/voice/pipelines/

You can even off-load the STT and TTS fully to Home Assistant and only focus on wake words.

You will see a lot higher adoption rate if users can just buy the ESP BOX and install the software on it without installing/compiling stuff. That's exactly why we created ESP Web Tools. It offers projects to offer browser-based installation directly from their website. https://esphome.github.io/esp-web-tools/

If you're going the ESP Web Tools route (and you should!), we've also created Improv Wi-Fi, a small protocol to configure Wi-Fi on the ESP device. This will allow ESP Web Tools to offer an onboarding wizard in the browser once the software has been installed. More info at https://www.improv-wifi.com/

Good luck!

Note: if anyone else wants to make an installer website like this, it’s called ESP Web Tools and open source: https://esphome.github.io/esp-web-tools/

ESP Web Tools uses WebSerial to allow users to install, update and manage firmware running on ESP microcontrollers: https://esphome.github.io/esp-web-tools/

If you want to make the project even more accessible, consider setting up a GitHub pages with ESP Web Tools: https://esphome.github.io/esp-web-tools/

Instead of esptool suggestions, use ESP web tools and your whole flow can be web based. https://esphome.github.io/esp-web-tools/

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Everyone should install the browser extension Privacy Badger, created by the nonprofit privacy organization Electronic Frontier Foundation. It blocks tracking pixels like the ones described in this article as well as many other forms of tracking that AdBlockers do not.

If you watch on a laptop or pc, try Privacy Badger. It's a browser extension made by the EFF that's blocks third party trackers from monitoring your web activity.

Installing more extensions is the best way to compromise your security. You should keep your extension list as short as possible. So uBlock Origin and Privacy Badger which is built by the EFF

No-one should get close to the internet without running Privacy Badger and adblock.

Do you watch mlb.tv on a computer? Privacy Badger is an extension created by the EFF that's designed to block third party trackers.

I think what you may be looking for is alternative privacy options. I would highly suggest you download the web browser https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/windows/ Install the addons, https://privacybadger.org/ https://ublockorigin.com/ Make sure to enable https only mode in Firefox. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/https-only-prefs Then use a privacy oriented search engine like, https://duckduckgo.com/ Or, https://www.startpage.com/ And change your DNS to either, https://www.opendns.com/setupguide/ Or, https://www.cloudflare.com/learning/dns/what-is-1.1.1.1/