The only thing I may add is:  take some bacon, lightly coat it with honey BBQ sauce and throw it on the grill....

Exactly. I had a heat pump that was so old the repairman had to MAKE parts for it. A different guy with 30 years experience said “ I have never seen a unit like this before...” .

Dashes suck. Too many are the same “OHO” Gauge, Info, Gauge” setup.

So it’s a Chumby/sony dash with a mirror?

Or you could build a fully functional voice controlled robot.......

If you are somewhere in between the two scenarios, you can always use two arduinos linked together. Here is a voice controlled robot using this technique: