Local & private AI for smart-home
Voice and natural-language control of your home through a local LLM, with no cloud speakers listening.
Rebel BitesHome Assistant Voice PE with a local LLM instead of Echo
A $60 Voice Preview Edition, an N100 box and an optional RTX 3060 replace every Echo and Nest in the house. It keeps working with the internet unplugged.
Fully local Home Assistant voice assistant on a GPU
Wake word to spoken answer in 2-3 seconds, with zero audio leaving the house. Built from faster-whisper, Piper and Ollama, with a cloud fallback.
Replacing Google Nest Minis with local Assist on llama.cpp
After a year of Nest Minis getting dumber, a household moved to fully local Assist. Higher-quant GGUF models from Hugging Face are what finally fixed tool calling.
Mac Studio as an always-on, LLM-driven smart-home brain
Phrases like 'it's stuffy in here' become real device calls, run by Ollama with qwen3:14b on a Mac Studio. €15 ESP32 satellites keep all audio on the LAN.
Security camera descriptions and search with Frigate GenAI
Frigate sends camera frames to a local vision model (qwen3-vl via Ollama or llama.cpp) for searchable event descriptions, review summaries and chat.