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Any experiences with a self-hosted assistant like the modern Google Assistant? Looking for something LLM-powered that is smarter than older assistants that would just try to call 3rd party tools directly and miss or misunderstand requests half of the time.

I'd like integration with a mobile app to use it from the phone and while driving. I see Home Assistant has an Android Auto integration. Has anyone used this, or another similar option? Any blatant limitations?

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[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

You gotta hook it to a local LLM. Then it's boss.

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)
[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Install Ollama on a machine with fast CPU or GPU and enough RAM. I currently use Qwen3 that takes 8GB RAM. Runs on an NVIDIA GPU. Running it on CPU is also fast enough. There's a 4GB version which is also decent for device control. Add Ollama integration in Home Assistant. Connect it to the Ollama on the other machine. Add Ollama as conversation agent to the Home Assistant's voice assistant. Expose HA devices to be controllable. That's about it on high level.