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Google home speakers (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I have 5 of the older generation google home speakers that i dont use because google assistant got dumber and dumber so that in the end it was just easier to get up and turn off the light instead of having google do it.

It seems like a waste though to throw them away. Could I re purpose them in any way?

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (5 children)

There's a bunch of tutorials online about resurrecting them. Perhaps one like this could be helpful? https://youtu.be/m_cP53UGB8M

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Shame nobody has been able to reuse the existing Google board but this is probably the next best thing. Might have to pick up a few boards.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

I can't wait for the time when we figure out how to make open hardware mandatory for things like this. I fully accept there will be times when you companies have to make things with never seen before secret methods to edge out competitors. But a speaker? That absolutely shouldn't be tethered to the whims of a corporation.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

https://piped.video/m_cP53UGB8M

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

I'm open-source; check me out at GitHub.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Now I'm just waiting for someone to do the same thing for the Nest Thermostats .....

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Thanks ill check it out

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Good luck.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

I've been slowly building up the hardware to fully support this! The projects look cool as hell, I want to fully enable another instance of my llm so I can chat with it. This is the cool side of AI. Big corpos have big advertising plans but for me, self hosting it has been a blast

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Mine just had it's speaker stop working, I now have a google nest audio without audio output.

My glorified lightswitch is actually pretty nice like this. And it doesn't take a minute to explain I haven't got my google tv plugged in, cuz it never is anymore