node-red-docker VS rhasspy

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I found that Nick O'Leary (founder of Node-RED and the great guy that he is..) already did some research on this, I just had to bring this all together.

I don't use node-red, but I guess they use the node-red user in shell and overriding the process owner causes some issues with that. You can add an issue to their repository if you want.

Standard practice with Node-Red lets the user add dedicated flows and dependencies via the npm install command-line. However within the Node-Red-Docker Repo Wiki, you can also add these flows/dependencies via a dedicated package.json.

# https://nodered.org/docs/getting-started/docker # https://community.home-assistant.io/t/node-red-get-homeassistant-error/53923 node-red: container_name: node-red depends_on: homeassistant: condition: service_started environment: PGID: $PGID PUID: $PUID TZ: $TZ image: nodered/node-red networks: smarthome: ipv4_address: 172.18.0.2 restart: always # https://github.com/node-red/node-red-docker/wiki/Permissions-and-Persistence # chown volume after first run volumes: - $USERDIR2/node-red:/data

Node Red - Flow programming, mainly for IOT

I've been working on this for a few months now and I think I have it to a point where I am ready to share. This is definitely a very niche solution but I am creating a new skill handler for Grocy for the Open Source Voice Assistant Rhasspy (https://github.com/rhasspy/rhasspy). My handler is here: https://github.com/MCHellspawn/hermes-app-grocy. It is not complete yet but getting there. With is skill and a working Rhasspy 2.5 setup you can do a lot of tasks in Grocy with your voice. So far you can create and delete shopping lists, create products and add and remove them from shopping lists, list chores, mark them complete or skipped, and more.

It'll run on a cheap Ubuntu box if you can't get a Pi.

And lots of people seem to like Rhasspy too:

  https://github.com/rhasspy/rhasspy

Here is one example https://community.rhasspy.org/

I tried Amazon's Alexa, the top end model with a display. Often it would taunt you about new/interesting things on the screen, but I could never get them to work. I'd had to memorize things to get even the basics working. Ended up unplugging it.

However Google's Assistant in comparison worked great, no memorization, and very useful. Sure time, weather, set timers, and alarms worked great with a very flexible set of natural language queries. Even more complex things like what will be the temperature tomorrow at 10pm, simple calculations and unit conversions. But also things like IMDB like queries about directors, actors, which movies someone was in, etc generally worked well. It seemed to really understand things, not just "A web search returned ...". Even more complex things like the wheelbase of a 2004 WRX would return an answer, not a search result.

With all that said I'm looking for a non-cloud/on site solution, even if it requires more work, most recently noticed https://github.com/rhasspy/rhasspy

I just found this one: https://github.com/rhasspy/rhasspy