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[JDRoberts]

@Manofice

. Pretty sure it has IVEE support which is voice control.

IVEE works with Iris, Staples Connect, and SmartThings, among others, but the voice recognition sucks. Many people end up returning it.

Since I’m quadriparetic, Voice control is really important to me, not just a fun feature, so I follow the technologies pretty closely. There’s a good discussion of various options in the following topic. Quite a bit of discussion of IVEE there.

Voice Command Solution - Discussion

Hey everyone, I am sure many of you have heard of Ivee (helloivee.com). I personally don’t own one, but it did make me do some thinking. For them to achieve integration with SmartThings, it would appear they have to communicate with the SmartThings cloud. Is this correct? Have we heard of any way to do this officially as of yet? Here is where I am going with this…: My dream would be to put 5+ Raspberry Pi’s in my house, with a good bi-directional mic, and a wifi dongle. Toss on a simple “always listening app” and basically build a voice recognition app using one of the many cloud-based voice recognition api’s. I look at the products like Ivee, and in some ways I feel that they are too ambitious with trying to integrate into 100 solutions, they are trying to do too much with having a pr…

If it can understand your voice, it’s a good solution for those people. But that just turns out to be a pretty small population.