Voice control without the Internet?

[JDRoberts]

You can’t do it with SmartThings because there’s no way locally to get voice commands to smartthings. It all has to go through the cloud.

I’ve given you some other options that aren’t smartthings-based in your hospital thread.

Voice control for hospital patients?

OK, I saw in another thread that you were also interested in voice control for yourself. If you want voice control at home without internet for one person who is willing to wear a headset (even if you have to have someone else put the headset on for you) , then there are a couple of options. Homeseer None of these have hardware or software which is as good as echo, so if you go look at the forum as you will see that everybody jumps to Ecco as soon as that becomes an option for them. You are going to be limited to a set of predefined Scripts and you are going to find that the voice recognition is nowhere near as good as Echo is. You will have to repeat yourself pretty often. You will also have to experiment with microphone placement if you don’t want to wear a headset, and it may mea…