Control your Smart Home with Trek-Inspired Comm Badge.

One thing some people hate about voice control is that you need to have a process always running, listening for the wake word. If your system isn’t totally locally-hosted, that can raise some privacy eyebrows. Perhaps that’s part of what inspired [SpannerSpencer] to create this 24th century solution: a Comm Badge straight out of Star Trek: The Next Generation he uses to control his smart home.

https://www.instructables.com/Star-Trek-Comm-Badge-for-Home-Assistant-Voice-Cont/

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