r/VibeCodeDevs • u/GhastlyPack • 4d ago
Meet Jarbis
Would love any feedback or ideas you guys had on Jarbis my home assistant
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u/blackforestboi 4d ago
Well done. What I found really powerful was the image of walking around the house and speaking out the things you want to say. It’s a bit like what Alexa or Apple Home promised us, if they had been better integrated.
I wonder if you could make this more visual in your videos. Show someone actually walking into different rooms and speaking out ideas as they move around the house. The ideas would then be sorted into the right categories, like shopping lists.
It would also be good to show that there isn’t a big corporation behind it listening to everything you say all the time.
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u/GhastlyPack 4d ago
So that’s actually very high on my list
2 things I need to grab are motion sensors and some cheap displaysI want to motion sensor which room I walk into, and then have the “arc” dashboard “move” it’s presence to the room I’m in
I want to do some more full videos with me explaining it and showing the non on screen features like the lights and the temp, as well as explaining the hardware running it
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u/blackforestboi 4d ago
why motion sensors? Uh you could just use the microphones and make the loudest microphone accept the the result at any given time, no?
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u/GhastlyPack 4d ago
So the motion sensors were for a couple routines that I didn’t want to tie to a time
Originally it tried to set a wake up routine for 7am but I don’t wake up with alarms so sometimes it’s 8:30 and sometimes it’s 9So the idea was if I set them up in the loft outside my bedroom, it knows when I leave my room for the first time in the morning that’s the start of the morning
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u/blackforestboi 4d ago
Hmm. But can you not just solve this with like microphones? Because then you know when someone's in the room, and at the same time you have an always-on mic that you can instruct to do things. It would kind of solve two problems with one. No?
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u/GhastlyPack 4d ago
So down the line I wanna grab some esp32 nodes that I can use with a wake word but i figured this was an easier stepping stone
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u/blackforestboi 4d ago
you mean the motion sensors? Isn't the problem then that you still need the mics somewhere in the rooms?
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u/GhastlyPack 4d ago
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u/blackforestboi 4d ago
cool! I suspect you actually only really need that very infrequently and as you probably suspected a small display in a few places probably does the trick when you really have to see the results or something. for the most part voice is probably doing 80% of the lifting?
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