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Well this looks damned handy. Thanks!

There's that but there's also a lot to say about having it tied into, say, security systems, flood detection systems, weather and temperature forecasts, custom calls for phone location (instead of relying on third-party), home ac/heat scheduling (for which a simple on/off is worthless) and so on. Just having it on a timer is only a start.

Now to that point, I have taken a raspberry pi, built a google home assistant from scratch, forced it to play a "gong" whenever the system would activate (meaning it was grabbing sound and there's a whole algorithm and system that is important to know about how the activation works and when it communicates with other servers) which rendered the entire recording utterly useless to google's analytics systems while still allowing the voice recognition to correctly interpret the command (google doesn't analyze the command, they analyze the recording). In so doing, I found that from the mid-90s on, many shows and movies trigger false positives in the google ecosystem and nearly all movies and shows from 2005 on trigger it.

As soon as I can clear some other "busy work" up, I'm diving into how to make one for amazon's alexa ecosystem because there's a LOT of devices that are essentially the wireless version of "plug and play" for alexa. Combined with systems like "If this then that" and similar, it's extremely easy to separate the device from the data from the account so that it can't be tracked back to anything. Combine that with Alexa's built in fire alarm noise detection, glass break detection, and so on, separating that from the aws ecosystem so the data is worthless but still useful to a security monitoring service, and you have the automation without the data mining. In researching this, I found that there's a frequency you can have playing in the background that we can't hear but will completely disable the alexa voice detection system. It's how you can play back recordings of your commands to alexa and it not fire alexa/ Some youtube content producers are aware of this and embed it in their videos so they can talk about the devices and features without triggering yours. Google has the same feature but I never really looked into it. So when you see a show or commercial that triggers your devices, know that they absolutely knew about those frequencies and deliberately chose not to include them.

Oh, and you can activate any voice detection assistant system with a laser.

And on that note, one of the things I would love to do is get one of the AT&T cell network programmable Dash buttons, tie that into AWS, link that to my garage door system so I can trigger it from anywhere I have cell access. The device is something like $25 each and comes with 3 years cell access. I've made such a system on a commercial basis before.

Yeah my grandparents had external ones that plugged into outlets back in the 80s...

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