Building a fully local LLM voice assistant to control my smart home

Re:Building a fully local LLM voice assistant to control my ... by darkwater on Sunday January 14, 2024 @10:06AM (#38991021)

That's great news but... Won't make HW requirements for HA way way higher? Thanks for Home Assistant anyway, I'm an avid user!

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Re:Building a fully local LLM voice assistant to control my ... by alright2565 on Sunday January 14, 2024 @10:11AM (#38991069)

I've been using HA for years now, and I don't think there's a single feature that's not toggleable. I expect this one to be too, and also hope that LLM offloading to their cloud is part of their paid plan.

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Re:Building a fully local LLM voice assistant to control my ... by driverdan on Sunday January 14, 2024 @01:00PM (#38992628)

HA is extremely modular and add-ons like these tend to be API based.

For example, the whisper speech to text integration calls an API for whisper, which doesn't have to be on the same server as HA. I run HA on a Pi 4 and have whisper running in docker on my NUC-based Plex server. This does require manual configuration but isn't that hard once you understand it.

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