Intent for simple calculations/math

[jose1711]

I'd love to see an intent that would enable queries like "calculate 1580 divided by 3" or "convert 12 cm to inches". This should be possible with some jinja2 templating.

[tetele]

This is not at all simple to achieve. First of all, you have 2 types of intents as examples:

• a calculation (specifically, a division in your case)
• a unit conversion

There are 2 issues to overcome here:

• proper transcription of numbers with decimals in many languages, which works but not great in all languages
• adding a plethora of ways of saying things for each operation, e.g. "1580 divided by 3", "1580 by 3", "divide 1580 by 3", "1580 over 3" etc. And that's just for division

And then comes the biggest problem of them all: why? You can use a LLM agent which does all that (better or worse, depending on the model). The amount of localization for these operations is quite high and I personally don't think it's worth the hassle. But maybe someone else sees the benefit.

[synesthesiam]

While it would be nice, I consider this kind of thing outside the scope of home control and so not appropriate for this repo.

What I think should be done instead is to create a Wyoming conversation agent that can be expanded with more traditional "skills" like math and unit conversion.

[jose1711]

@synesthesiam Thank you, that seems interesting. Are you aware of any example configuration?