Voice control
Put a Home Assistant Voice device in the van and you can run it by speaking: lights, switches, heating and scenes, all by the names you already see on screen. It is like a smart speaker at home, except everything happens inside the van. Nothing you say goes to the internet, and it keeps working in a field with no signal.
Voice control comes with Nomad Pro and above, on a unit we supplied. On Nomad Base the device shows up in the Devices list but cannot be added.
Adding a Voice device
Plug the Voice device in and join it to the van's network. Then open Settings, choose the Devices tab, and add Home Assistant Voice like any other device.
The first time you add one, the unit downloads its speech software, so it needs the internet once. After that, voice control works with no connection at all.
What you can say
Say the device's wake word, then what you want.
- Anything a scene can control, by the name shown on your screens: "turn on the awning light", "turn off the water pump". Rename a device and its new name works straight away.
- Your battery and tank levels, the same ones the Home dials show: "what is the fresh water level?"
- A scene, by its name: "sleep mode" runs your Sleep scene, exactly as tapping it would.
Settings and technical switches are deliberately left out, so nothing you say by accident changes how the system is set up.
Name the device you mean. Commands such as "the lights in here" are not understood yet.
When your system is read-only
If your licence or trial has ended and your system has gone read-only, voice control stops changing anything. Ask for a scene and the device tells you it cannot.
Spoken alarms
With a Voice device added, spoken alarms use the unit's own voice too, so they no longer need the internet to be heard.