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Lightweight voice companion for Home Assistant on old smart displays: on-device wake word and reflexes, an animated character, AirPlay music and screen mirroring.

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GITHUB · launched Nov 7, 2026 · 18 upvotes (top 91%) · 0 views

Niche: smart home automation software · 107 launches, 6 in the last 7 days ▼ -33% · Explore this niche →

Category and tags
  • Horizontal
  • Agent / copilot
  • B2C
  • AI feature
  • Hobby / open-source project
  • airplay
  • debian
  • home-assistant
  • mcp
  • rust
  • slint
  • +6 more

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Could you build this?

Partial Home Assistant integration and an animated UI are standard work, but on-device wake word, AirPlay on constrained hardware, and screen mirroring on old displays need embedded and audio/video expertise.

What it would actually take: The stack would use Home Assistant's WebSocket API with a lightweight client on the display, plus an on-device wake-word engine such as openWakeWord or Porcupine running on limited CPU. AirPlay receiving needs an implementation like shairport-sync or UxPlay, and screen mirroring needs hardware-appropriate decoding. Getting these to run reliably on old, low-power devices with limited memory requires embedded Linux and audio/video debugging skills.

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 608 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #555 of 609 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 366 days after the earliest competitor.

  • speakrail · github · 2026-10-04 · 93 upvotes · similarity 0.57
  • r2d2-tv · github · 2026-10-21 · 60 upvotes · similarity 0.56
  • voice-assist-improver · github · 2026-10-21 · 19 upvotes · similarity 0.55
  • Glowcast · github · 2026-10-30 · 16 upvotes · similarity 0.53
  • Caddy: The Voice Interface for Your Computer · yc · 2025-11-06 · 149 upvotes · similarity 0.53
  • eva · github · 2026-09-28 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.52
  • HAwake · ph · 2026-10-27 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.52
  • turnover · github · 2026-10-20 · 12 upvotes · similarity 0.52

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