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Local voice assistant for smart home

🏠 Homecost: freedifficulty: hard

Problem

Cloud assistants send everything off-device.

Tools

Setup steps

Install Home Assistant
Run a local model with Ollama
Use Whisper-based speech-to-text via Home Assistant's voice pipeline
Expose only chosen entities to the assistant

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