Ok. Here you go... https://www.dbrand666.com/home-assistant-media-player-with-voice-input/

I have a couple of Pi Zeros around the house I use as media players. They were running piCorePlayer. I replaced just the software with a vanilla Pi OS and installed Squeezelite and then Wyoming Satellite. I added a microphone and an automation to silence the media player as soon as a wake word is detected.

Voice recognition is adequate but I wish it was smarter.

(I should finish that blog post...)

I used to have a Ring and became concerned about privacy once Amazon took over. Worse, all it used to capture was delivery people's backs - by the time it would see motion the action was almost over. That's when it captured anything at all - it used to miss a lot.

Reolink doesn't require any Internet access - even for initial setup. People detection works great with Frigate and you can tell it to start recording before motion is detected so you don't miss anything.

Full disclosure, it does take some fiddling to get it working reliably. I still don't have 2 way audio working.

The Pixel 3 and the Pixel 3a both support eSIM.

(The Pixel 2 sort of did but only for Google Fi.)

The Pixel 3 briefly supported DSDS (pSIM+ eSIM) in a beta but it was removed before general release.

Pixel 3a was the first Pixel to officially support DSDS.

Since you're already running Hass why not set up Media Assistant. Connect your speakers to a Raspberry Pi running piCorePlayer.

I have a few around the house and they work great.

Media Assistant is still a work in progress. If that's a problem for you you can use Logitech Media Server instead, which is what I was using until recently.

Homebridge might be worth a shot. I know its Nest integration is better in some ways than HA's native integration.

"The open source part of iVentoy" is on GitHub. Perhaps it's not completely open?

Time to start a frigate vs motioneye vs blueiris thread!

That is one expensive doorbell!

I really hate YouTube reviews, but thanks. Maybe I should try another Reolink before I go elsewhere.

Yeah. I'm trying to stick to open protocols.

Thanks! I'll take a look.

You don't need to create an Amcrest account or let it dial home at all?