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[JDRoberts]

@matteee

• Voice/speaker module of some sort, voice guided actions with verbal responses ( Imagine “Jarvis” from Iron Man)

I am quadriparetic with limited hand function, so voice control is very important to me.

There are multiple voice control options that currently work with SmartThings, depending on your specific needs and whether you have android or iOS devices.

I myself use Hey Siri with IFTTT to control most of my SmartThings devices and it works quite well. Not natural language like Jarvis, but full handsfree voice operation at no extra cost. Community members using Android have other choices.

You’ll find discussion of the various options in the following topic:

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…