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by Fredej 1457 days ago
My dad uses the Google speaker for two things:

- Making animal / fart sounds for his grand-children.

- Timers for cooking ("Hey Google, set timer to 4 minutes).

I recently spent a month at my parents place. I really, really miss the timer thing.

Additionally, I can see voice assistants as a pretty good interface for Home Assistant. At least for some parts.

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Timers is the only thing I've used Siri for since the first weeks of it's introduction.

End of the day feels like it's the only thing it's good for and it often fails at even doing that.