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Working draft. Status: Idea / planning. Nothing has been bought or set up yet.

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Related: Voice Project — Smart Speaker & Voice Calls, which uses the same OVOS / wake word setup.

1. Multi-room audio

• Microphones and speakers in other rooms, so things keep going as the Director walks from room to room.
• Voice control of home speakers, like "turn on the speaker in the kitchen" or "turn off the speaker in the bedroom," the way Alexa does.

2. Smart home integrations

• Control lights by voice, and control the whole environment.
• The Director already owns some smart plugs.

3. Morning routines

• Open the blinds on waking.
• Fun morning automations, like Doc Emmett Brown's automated house.

4. Robot vacuum

• The Director has a robot vacuum in storage; it would be fun to include.

Shared voice layer (sketch)

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Sketch / plan only — no code, no purchases yet.

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• One wake word serves both projects (e.g. "hey Cadmus"), so the same voice command can start a phone call (Voice) or a home action (Home Automation).
• Central listener: the Pi 5 kit (already on the Phone/Voice pages) with a reSpeaker mic array runs OVOS and listens for the wake word.
• After the wake word: speech-to-text → intent check → route.
  • Calling intent ("call …") → Voice/Phone pipeline (Asterisk + Grok bridge).
  • Home intent ("turn on the kitchen speaker", "open the blinds") → Home Automation pipeline (smart plugs, lights, blinds, speakers).
  • Anything else → the AI agent for a spoken answer.
• Extra rooms can add their own mic/speaker satellites that feed the same listener.