• Dave@lemmy.nz
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      1 month ago

      I was excited too! But they mention it kills the battery as Google doesn’t let the access the system API for it, so we’ll see whether it stays enabled.

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        1 month ago

        I used their advice from the blog to make an automation that turns it on when I’m home, and off when I’m away.

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          1 month ago

          I spend 90% of my time at home so that probably won’t help my battery much 😅

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              1 month ago

              Haha you got me, I do have a charger at home. I’m just not used to charging in the day, I normally charge overnight. But I guess I could charge more if needed.

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                1 month ago

                To be fair, doubling the amount of charge cycles is not great for your battery. So even with a charger available one should consider whether it’s worth it.

      • UnrefinedChihuahua@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        7 days ago

        Following up. I found the mic/wakeword being active overnight prevented my Android Auto-Restart from occurring. Setup another automation to turn off wakeword overnight and turn it back on around my usual alarm time.

        • Dave@lemmy.nz
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          7 days ago

          I turned it off because it kept triggering when I (or someone else) was talking to my Home Assistant Voice Preview (which the blog says it won’t do…). I also never really worked out good uses for it. My HAVP is in my kitchen/living room area, and is mostly used for playing music and kitchen related things (setting timers, unit conversions, etc).

          If I ask home assistant on my phone to play music, it plays it on the HAVP speaker in my kitchen. I don’t really have a need for timers or conversions outside of the kitchen where I already have the HAVP so didn’t find any use for it on my phone.

    • iamthetot@piefed.ca
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      1 month ago

      Ended up having to change my default assistant, then change it back to Homeassistant for it to recognize that it was the default. There’s already a bug report for it as well.