Covi

Speech enabled lamp & open source smart home hub

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Speech enabled lamp & open source smart home hub

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BirdTab

This looks amazing! Having an open source hub makes it very special. What integrations are already in place? As a developer, how can I participate in the ecosystem?

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9yr ago

Covi

Maker

@jaipandya Thanks Jai! :) We're working down a list of requested devices. The most common ones like Sonos and Philips Hue are integrated. - The best way to participate at the moment is to follow the repos on github: https://github.com/getsenic/seni... - Also, here is a basic overview of our developer documentation: https://developers.senic.com/ - We've been busy with preparing the kickstarter campaign but will update a lot more information. - We also have a developer newsletter that you can subscribe to: http://eepurl.com/bUbGND Please let me know if you have any other questions!!

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9yr ago

BirdTab

@tobias_eichenwald Thanks! That answers my question. All the best for the Kickstarter campaign.

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9yr ago

Covi

Maker

@jaipandya Thanks so much!! Really appreciate it!

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9yr ago

solidLUUV

WOW, congrats guys, very cool design and it looks like you chose high quality materials. Are you sure you can pull of manufacturing for this beauty without a big CM?

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9yr ago

Covi

Maker

@flixko Thanks :) Really appreciate it. Covi is our second product. We've already shipped thousands of devices of our first product Covi which we made with local manufacturers. We're using a lot of the same manufacturers again. Glass was new to us but we also worked very closely with local glass manufacturers to get it production ready. Here you can see a really cool video of the prototyping process.

If you're interested we could show you some of the manufacturing first hand?

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9yr ago

solidLUUV

@tobias_eichenwald thanks for the quick reply, really cool video indeed! And perfect that you can build on established relationships with manufacturers, would love to see more for sure.

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9yr ago

Covi

Maker

@flixko Cool yea, just write us an email to hi@senic.com. Would love to show you. We put a lot of heart into making the product

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9yr ago

Butterflies

Hunter

With hardware Kickstarters, there's probably more risk to it than others but I've known @tobias_eichenwald for a while, and they've already had a successful hardware product Kickstarted and delivered to customers. Simply put, these guys from Senic are wicked smart, genuinely passionate and build insanely cool shit. My question as a hacker is, how customizable will Covi be? For example, can I change the trigger word from "Alexa" / "Covi" into something else?

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9yr ago

Covi

Maker

@vu0tran Thanks Vu :) Trying our best. You should check out some of the videos from glass blowing. It's really beatiful. For your question: We've already open sourced the software of Covi including the OS: https://github.com/getsenic/ - For speech, we're also looking into different options. At the moment you can use Covi the same way you would use Alexa (just in a piece of furniture for people who care about design with some additional functions) by using the Alexa trigger word. - We're also looking into opening this up in the future as well as adding additional speech services / be open to other speech services. - You can also trigger speech by simply tapping the base of Covi. - It would be really great to hear what you would like to have access to?

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9yr ago

The Basslet

I love the design! But I have one question, how are you guys dealing with privacy? Is COVI always listening like the other speech interfaces?

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9yr ago

Covi

Maker

@pompaskin Hi Alicia, thanks :) - Home automation: If you want to automatically start your Philips Hue in the morning, these sort of things all happen locally. - Speech: The device has two levels of speech recognition. The first level only happens locally where the device can only recognize the trigger word like Alexa. Only once the trigger word has been used, a connection to the cloud is opened (since the speech processing needs to happen there) I hope this helps! Thanks

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9yr ago

Jotengine

This looks really cool. How deep is the integration with Alexa? i.e. Can I hook up music to it as well? And out of curiosity, can I use it as a bluetooth speaker?

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9yr ago

Covi

Maker

@skandermz Thanks :) - You can use it the same way you would use an Alexa (except that it comes in a beautiful piece of furniture and has some extra functions). - We're working on the bluetooth connection but it's not confirmed yet but we'll make an announcement at some point. Many parties involved in the question :)

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9yr ago

Airy

Hey! Covi looks interesting, I have been following you guys since you came out with the Nuimo. The video is mostly showing voice usecases, can I control Covi with touch too? If yes, is the touch interface part of the open platform?

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9yr ago

Covi

Maker

@skagarroum Hey Skander, thanks for the question. Yes, we also built in a simple dimmer to adjust the brightness. We've already open sourced our software and are currently trying to collect some feedback on what people would like to get access to. Are you a developer? Any things that would be important to you?

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9yr ago

Rainforest QA

So cool! Any dev docs yet? Could you link to the open source platform you talk about? Also, what's the quad core board specs?

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9yr ago

Covi

Maker

@rhs Hey Russel. Thanks :) - It's still in the early days but here is an overview of our dev docs: https://developers.senic.com/ - and our repos: https://github.com/getsenic - For the quad core specs: * 4 x 1.2 GHz CPU * Cortex-A7 * 512MB DDR3 RAM * Linux Yocto Distribution Please let me know if you have any other questions!!

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9yr ago

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