Local AI for Home Assistant and Smart Homes

OpenVoiceOS is a voice assistant platform for people building smart speakers or adding voice control to their own devices. Its core is a fork of MycroftAI/mycroft-core, and most classic Mycroft skills remain compatible.

py-xiaozhi is a Python AI voice client for people who want to try Xiaozhi conversations on a computer or build voice interaction into hardware projects. It builds on the xiaozhi-esp32 project and lets you use a desktop microphone and speakers without dedicated Xiaozhi hardware.

LLM Vision is a Home Assistant integration for people who want camera footage to inform smart home alerts and automations. It uses multimodal models to describe what cameras capture and extract data from images.

MirrorMate puts a voice assistant in a physical mirror for people who want to ask questions, check daily information or chat without reaching for a phone. It remembers details from conversations to personalize later responses.

EverShelf helps households keep track of food and choose meals that use what's already in the kitchen. It covers the pantry, fridge and freezer, with optional AI assistance.

Home Assistant Assist lets you control your smart home through natural language. It's built into Home Assistant and can process voice entirely on your own hardware, keeping those voice commands local.

Scrypted connects home cameras to smart home apps and displays with low latency video streams. It's for people who want to use their cameras across different home systems or add recording through its NVR plugin.

Wyoming Faster Whisper converts speech to text on your own hardware for Home Assistant and other Wyoming-compatible clients. It's for home voice systems that need local transcription and better recognition of household names.

Home-LLM connects Home Assistant to language models for voice and chat control of smart devices. It's for Home Assistant users who want those requests handled on their own hardware.

Frigate is a local AI network video recorder for people managing IP security cameras, especially homes using Home Assistant. It identifies people, cars and other objects so recordings and alerts can focus on relevant activity.

OpenEnsemble is a self-hosted AI assistant platform for people who want shared access on their own server, with a separate workspace for each user. Linux is the main installation target; macOS supports local development with different feature support. You can choose a single assistant or an ensemble of specialist agents using different models. It's open source under AGPL-3.0.

Willow is a voice assistant for people who want to control home automation through hardware and speech processing they own. It provides an alternative to Amazon Echo or Google Home on Espressif's ESP32-S3-BOX hardware family.

AI Automation Suggester helps Home Assistant users find automation ideas based on their home's devices, rooms and existing automations. It produces YAML suggestions for review rather than installing automations itself.

Home Generative Agent is a Home Assistant integration for people who want to control their smart home through conversation and get alerts about security issues. It can use fully local models, so home data doesn't have to leave your network.

Wyoming Protocol connects Home Assistant with separate voice services. It's for developers and people assembling a voice assistant who want to choose their own transcription, speech synthesis, and wake word components. Connections have no authentication or encryption, so it requires a trusted network.

Local OpenAI LLM for Home Assistant connects conversation agents and AI tasks to models served through an OpenAI-compatible API. It's for Home Assistant users who want to choose their own model server for voice conversations and generation tasks.

Extended OpenAI Conversation is a custom conversation agent that runs inside your Home Assistant instance and uses OpenAI's remote API for model calls. It builds on Home Assistant's OpenAI Conversation integration for people who want chat to control their smart home. The component runs locally, but conversations and exposed device context go to OpenAI, so it requires an internet connection.

GLaDOS is a local AI voice assistant for people who want a conversational companion modeled on the personality core from Valve's Portal games. It combines a custom voice and dry humor with awareness of its surroundings.

Wyoming Satellite connects a microphone and audio playback device to Home Assistant for a self-hosted voice assistant. The project is archived and no longer maintained; Linux Voice Assistant replaces it using the ESPHome protocol.