@BFesper

I like where you're going with this!
While I applaud your approach on the server for most of your market, I, like many of the IT geeks here in the comments, am not your target audience for the hardware portion for that product. (But we all know people who are the audience for it! Don't be discouraged there!) I'm definitely keen, however, to keep an eye on the software configuration for my own eventual hardware.

But as far as the satellites go, I agree with others (and you) in the comments that Google and Amazon have spoiled us with the pricing on their devices. You're packing more features in, and dealing with quantities that won't provide the cost efficiencies in manufacturing, nor the financial margin for pricing it competitively with those pervasive competitors.
But... you're also offering significant flexibility and privacy. And for some, that's worth the extra spend.
I'm presuming that you're planning on building a integrated board rather than off-shelf components (such as the Matrix Voice) to shave production costs.
One suggestion I have is to offer two levels for the satellites.
For a large space like a living room or entertainment space, that large array of microphones are likely critical. But for a smaller room (like a bedroom or a home office) with far less ambient noise and space to cover, those seven microphones (at a base cost of $65 USD just for that hat) are overkill. Build a "Large room" model and a "Small room" model. The small room model could carry the same features, but fewer microphones (two or three might be sufficient), and perhaps a less expensive speaker, as it won't need to be as loud... Maybe not as diminutive as an ATOM Echo, but something closer to the SEEED ReSpeaker 2-mic, which retails for $12.90 USD for the hat. (Yes, I know it lacks the extra connectors you'd need for the other sensors, so there's some cost adjustment there.) Being that the Matrix is open-source hardware, this reduced configuration shouldn't be difficult for a qualified engineer with that design as an inspiration.

This could satisfy many people that would want a satellite in multiple living spaces, but might balk at the price of that one device across many rooms. Allow them a less expensive option for some of the rooms, with the nicer piece in the larger rooms, and you may hit a sweet spot in the market.

@nidhalabrahim3001

Can't wait to get this, my new home will be ready early next year. I will for sure get the homex set

@luixmod1

3 seconds for a local LLM is a GREAT objective.... I am interesting on a product like this but I think I prefer to run all on unraid local, with a powerful GPU.
good work.

@BradCorcoran

This concept is the holy grail for replacing a house full of Google Home or Alexa devices. I agree with everyone else that unless you can find some HW that is purpose built for LLMs, selling a server will likely not be as popular as having the customer provide their own compute.

As for pricing, the max I think i could pay would be $100 CAD per room. Any more and it is too expensive to get multiples for every room. Obviously the cheaper you make it the more adoption you'd see.

I assume the satellite would also run an audio streaming client like you did in your previous video. While I think an AUX out is a must so you can plug it in to a real speaker, you might want to consider putting a smaller one onboard for those who just want a one device solution.

@wapphigh5250

So cool! Onboard and gave my feedback thru the link. I'd buy something like this in a heat beat to replace my Alexa<>HA voice control set up. Essential to me would be 1/ local 5G wifi 2/ TTS 3/ "just works" out of the box ..happy to do all the HA config but don't want any stuff around with  hardware 4/ ability to select what AI engine to use both now and into the future. Thanks for the awesome video and fantastic build! What an exciting project!

@kawaiihvh

Love your work, you inspired me to create something similar on my local hardware

@MarcBayer-e5h

I just love the work that you are doing! Tried to go into the exact same direction but you are far more advanced. I also would love to see this setup as a product, because I realized that progress on HA also impacts my custom setup and therefore needs a to of attention and maintenance. So yes, I absolutely would be interested if you can offer this as a product in the future.

@ВикторВечтомов

Thank you for your work! This project is very cool and exciting! I’d love to buy a device like that for around-350$ especially if everything is completely open sores and adjustable, and I can keep adding functions and stuff. I wish you success with your project.👍👍👍

@ArielLothlorien

I am loving to see this it's something I have been planning on making for a bit

@dominicdechangy8365

Ready to buy 4 !

@Boinzy476

super cool project. looking forward to this developing.

@MarkGhali

Love your work! Keep it up!

@teek541

Love it!  Get the performance a bit faster and I'll be ready to buy.  I do need to do presence detectors, I'd get this, but it's a bit too large to put in the corner of my rooms.

@ddibble89

Love the concept.  Would definitely buy the voice/bluetooth/mwave part, if could be ported over to local LLM running on any personal hardware (old pc converted to server, nvidia GPU acceleration,  MAC silicon run, or any hardware that can run the llama server).

@getrav

Yes yes yes!!! Great work. I want it

@RobertoCarvalho-0

this is amazing !!  looking forward next videos!

@anonymouspianoman5156

Absolutely amazing. Looking forward to a sub 1 second response time that feels like you are talking to a human in real time!

@jakobholzner

Love the project. Keep up the good work.

@seanlarson7659

Yes I would totally be interested in buying something like this

@Sebastian-xf8je

It would be cool to have a device that can plug directly into a sound system or single speaker that turns it into voice assistant with actually good sound quality (for playing music/casting)