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And I don't believe in "sharing my home activity data with third parties," so I won't have voice activated anything.

I'll just note that most of what you complain about with dimmers isn't a problem with the correct dimmer - I don't have any dimmers that require coming to full brightness before dimming them down, no matter where they were last set.

>>Syonyk+(OP)
Home Assistant can facilitate local offline voice control if online 3rd party smart speakers are a problem

https://www.home-assistant.io/voice_control/voice_remote_loc...