The LocalDot Frees Your Third-Gen Amazon Echo Dot From Corporate Clutches, Links to Home Assistant
Italian open source hardware specialist AAElectronics is hoping to help people free their smart homes from proprietary capture with the LocalDot, a replacement mainboard for Amazon's third-generation Echo Dot smart speakers that cuts the corporate connection and replaces it with Home Assistant integration instead.
"LocalDot is an open hardware replacement PCB that fits inside a third-generation Amazon Echo Dot," AAElectronics' Alessandro Alfonzetti explains of his creation. "It is a fully local alternative, but with the same case, same microphones, same speaker, same buttons and same LEDs you already own. Change the board, and a device that used to send everything it heard to remote servers becomes a voice assistant that only talks to your own network. Say goodbye to Alexa and hello to a privacy-preserving voice-activated node that works with Home Assistant to let you control other IoT [Internet of Things] devices in your house."
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