I turned a Meta Portal into a voice-controlled home dashboard
The Portal Go sits in my kitchen. It’s a 10-inch touchscreen with a decent microphone and camera, and out of the box it’s mostly a video-calling device I barely used. Meta’s stopped making them, but that doesn’t matter much here: the app I sideloaded onto it would run on pretty much any Android tablet. If you’re starting from scratch, a Samsung Galaxy Tab A9+ or a Lenovo Tab M11 would do the same job — 10-11 inch screen, microphone, speaker, Wi-Fi. That’s the whole hardware requirement for the front end. ...