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[JDRoberts]

@djokballs

Hi, guys!
I’m presenting a team of developers, and we have an idea of creating a mobile app that will let you control your smart home via voice commands.
We will appreciate your opinions and recommendations. Thanks!

I’m quadriparetic, so voice control is very important to me. I am currently using a method Will Poirier developed that involves Siri and ifttt to control smartthings functions. Other people are using hardware options, Like Ivee and Ubi, and android users have a whole different set of available options. There is also an official smartthings voice control app for the Samsung gear S smart watch.

We have a pretty active topic that discusses all of these, so you might check that out.

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…