Is multiroom mic+speaker home assistant possible?

[BhuX93Td]

I would like to create a home assistant with the pi as the brain. What I want is different microphones and speakers in various rooms, and the pi responding to each according to the room id. This would involve each mic and speaker having its own ID, and the pi being able to access each independently. Is this possible?

[Andyroo]

Welcome to the forum,

I would be tempted to use Google (or snips if you to be stand alone) in each room and pass commands to a central Pi.

[BhuX93Td]

I currently have echos, but I'm trying to get away from big tech for privacy concerns, so I don't think I'd go the Google route. Google tts would be harmless though, as far as I can tell.

Edit: just read the comment about snips. I'll look that up.

[trejan]

Probably easier to use a RPi Zero with speaker + mic in each room than to try to feed everything back to a central RPi.

[Andyroo]

Apologies - link is https://docs.snips.ai/getting-started/q ... spberry-pi

[BhuX93Td]

Apologies - link is https://docs.snips.ai/getting-started/q ... spberry-pi

Thank you, I'll investigate this. Side note, is a pi zero powerful enough to process the snips engine?

[trejan]

Side note, is a pi zero powerful enough to process the snips engine?

Probably not as they recommend a RPi 3. I was thinking of doing the processing somewhere else with the RPi Zero in each room but if your budget stretches to having a 3/3+/4 in each room then that'd probably be the best solution.