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Voice calling between satellites? (lemmy.zip)

submitted 2 hours ago by sunnyjim@lemmy.zip to c/homeassistant@lemmy.world

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I've been searching for a while via Ecosia, Google etc. and on Reddit but I'm struggling to find an answer.

My parents are moving together with my grandma to a new house with a little annex for my grandma. They're planning to get Alexa's so that my grandma can call through to the other side of the house if she falls over or needs help. I would love for them not to end up giving every conversation they ever have to Amazon's servers... Is there any way to replicate this functionality in Home Assistant (i.e. call between satellites across the network)? If I can figure this out I'll build a self-hosted setup for them.

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[–] just_another_person@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

A phone seems like an easier solution, but there are VOIP integrations for HA, as well as ways to stream audio through the media player to different devices. I'm not aware of any integration that specifically does paging as you describe, but it would be easy to do with an esp32 board with a speaker.

[–] bluGill@fedia.io 3 points 1 hour ago

problem is a phone only works if you have it on you. Grandma falling often is a case where she doesn't have a phone (often grandma in this case is in mental decline and wouldn't think to use the phone if she had it).

A privacy respecting device that can hear "help" and general cries/grunts to get help when needed is what the world really needs. This is much more complex than the ask, but it is the real need here. For me what the OP was asking is enough, I just need to inform a kid in a different room dinner is ready.