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Google says Gemini will replace Google Assistant on Android phones in 2025, except on phones with Android 9 or earlier and that don't have at least 2GB of RAM.
  • Set or change alarms, add reminders to your calendar, ask about those things, send text messages, start phone calls, have it read out last text messages received.

    When I was a truck driver, my wife could test me, and I could just listen to a transcript of what she sent instead of calling her and asking what she typed.

    "Hey Google, read my last text"

    "Hey Google, send a text to <wife>, 'Quit texting me while I'm driving, woman!" Stuff like that. 🤣

  • Home Assistant officially Matters
  • Correct. Unlike zigbee and zwave Matter does not define a single communication technique.

    It can be used with thread, or over a standard tco TCP IP network.

    Typically, Matter devices will support either thread or WiFi, but there's no definite distinction to Matter itself.

    If you also want to use Matter over Thread devices, you will need a thread dongle. The ZBT-1 can do either thread OR zigbee but not both at once.

    In fact, the biggest issue I see with Matter is that there's no real easy way to tell if the device uses WiFi or thread.

    There are a lot of Matter devices out there now, but only a few use the Thread protocol.

  • Home Assistant officially Matters
  • My Matter (and Zigbee, and Z-Wave) hub is a laptop I paid 300.00 for almost 10 years ago, when I wanted something cheap for the semi truck.

    I run Home Assistant on it now. I have both a $40 zwave USB stick, and a similarly priced Zigbee stick.

    The software for the hub comes with HA. Just install the matter server

    Their zbt-1 dongle can do either zigbee or thread, but matter does not technically need anything else. Thread does, but not Matter. Install Matter Server addon and you can use any matter WiFi device.

  • Why are Google's Assistant(s) so bad nowadays?
  • Weird. My Google Pixel 9 Pro XL has 3 navigation buttons.

    That's something that's customizable using the stock firmware.

    Settings -> Display & touch -> Navigation mode.

    My Google Assistant still responds to "Hey Google" or "ok Google" just fine as well on my Google phone.

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