Self-Hosted AI for Photos, Cameras, Smart Home

Home Assistant Assist is a voice assistant for people who want to control their smart home through natural language while keeping voice processing on their own hardware. It's built into Home Assistant, which runs on a Raspberry Pi or a local server and is open source under Apache 2.0.

Ente Photos is a Google Photos alternative for people who want encrypted photo backups and AI search without giving a storage provider access to their library. You can use its hosted service or self-host the server. Face detection, grouping and natural-language search run on your device; the hosted service stores your encrypted backups.

SD.Next is a self-hosted web interface for artists, researchers and people who want to generate and edit images or videos on their own hardware. It builds on Automatic1111 WebUI's original codebase and supports Stable Diffusion alongside other diffusion models. It's open source under Apache 2.0.

Frigate is an open source NVR for IP cameras that detects people, cars, and other objects on your own hardware. Camera feeds stay at home. It's built for people who want a locally controlled security camera system, particularly those using Home Assistant.

Immich is a self-hosted photo and video library for people who want their pictures on their own server. Its mobile apps for iOS and Android back up photos and videos, while the web interface gives each user a place to browse and manage their collection. The project is open source under the GNU AGPL v3 license.

PicApport is a self-hosted photo server for families and businesses that want a searchable media archive on their own hardware. Its AI tagging add-on recognizes image content without sending photos to a cloud service and saves the resulting tags in image metadata. The server runs on Windows, Linux or macOS, with a Docker image available, and you access the gallery through a browser.

Photoview is a self-hosted photo gallery for photographers and households who keep their pictures on a personal server or NAS. It turns existing folders into browser-based albums and automatically scans for added photos and videos. Your folder structure determines how the library appears, so you can keep organizing files through Samba, FTP or Nextcloud. Your media stays on your server.

Extended OpenAI Conversation is a custom component for Home Assistant users who want an AI assistant that can act on their home. It builds on OpenAI Conversation and adds device control, automation creation, and access to historical device states. It runs inside Home Assistant, while a separate model backend handles the conversation.

Wyoming Satellite connects a microphone and audio playback device to Home Assistant through the Wyoming protocol. It's for people building a self-hosted voice assistant with a separate device for speaking and listening. The project is archived and no longer maintained; its replacement is Linux Voice Assistant, which uses the ESPHome protocol.

Rhasspy 3 is an early developer-preview local voice assistant toolkit for developers building their own assistants or adding voice control to Home Assistant. The project is archived and no longer maintained. It keeps data on your computer unless you choose to send it elsewhere, and its speech components support languages beyond English.

digiKam is a local photo manager and image editor for photographers who need to organize large collections of photos, RAW files and videos. It runs on Linux, Windows and macOS and is open-source software under GPL-2.0. Its archived GitHub mirror points contributors to the maintained KDE repository.

DeepStack is a self-hosted computer vision API for developers adding image analysis to camera systems, home automation or other applications. It runs prebuilt and custom models on your own hardware and works fully offline. Image processing stays on the device or server where you host it, with no cloud service required.

CodeProject.AI Server gives developers a shared API for AI tasks that run on their own hardware. It's a self-hosted service for adding image analysis, text processing and generation to applications. Processing stays on the machine running the server, without cloud calls or sending data outside your device or network.

Double Take connects Frigate camera images to facial recognition services through a shared web interface and API. It's for people running camera systems and Home Assistant who want to identify familiar faces and use the results in home automations. The app runs on your own server in Docker and is open source under the MIT license.

LibrePhotos is a self-hosted photo manager for people who want to organize a photo library on their own server, with AI tools for finding images and grouping faces. It scans files already on your storage and supports RAW photos as well as videos. The project is open source under the MIT license.

ZoneMinder is a self-hosted video surveillance system for people who want to manage security cameras on their own Linux machine. It brings video capture, analysis, recording and monitoring into one system, with support for IP, USB and analog cameras. It's free and open source under the GNU General Public License v2.0 (GPL-2.0).

JoyCaption is an open-weight image captioning model for people preparing datasets to train or fine-tune diffusion models. It runs on your own GPU and covers both SFW and NSFW images, including photography, anime, digital art and furry artwork. Automated captions reduce the need to write descriptions by hand or find images that already have usable text.

GLaDOS is a local AI voice assistant modeled on the sarcastic character from Valve's Portal games. It's for people who want a conversational companion on their own hardware, with camera awareness and connections to home automation. The Python project is open source under the MIT license and runs on Linux and Windows. macOS support is experimental.

Nextcloud Recognize automatically categorizes media on your self-hosted Nextcloud server. It's for people who want to organize photo, video and music collections without sending sensitive data to a cloud recognition service. Image processing runs on your Nextcloud machine.

Meme Search is a free, self-hosted web app for people who want to find memes in their own collection by image content or text. It runs locally through Docker and uses AI descriptions to make images searchable, even when their filenames aren't useful. The code uses the Apache 2.0 license.

TagGUI is a desktop app for people preparing image datasets for generative AI training. It combines local AI captioning with manual tag editing, so you can generate descriptions and correct them in the same workspace. It's open source under GPL-3.0 and runs on Windows, Linux and macOS, though macOS doesn't have a packaged release.

LLM Vision is a free, open-source Home Assistant integration for people who want their smart home to interpret what cameras see. It uses multimodal LLMs to describe images, video files, live feeds and Frigate events, then uses those results in notifications and automations.

HomeGallery is a self-hosted web gallery for people who want to browse their personal photos and videos while keeping their existing files and folders. It brings multiple media directories into one gallery, with a mobile-friendly browser interface and PWA support. It's open source under MIT.

rclip searches image folders by their visual content, so you can find photos without adding tags or importing them into a photo library. It's a local AI tool for people who keep image collections on their own computers or servers and prefer working in the terminal. It runs on Linux, Windows and Apple Silicon macOS, and it's open source under the MIT license.

Home-LLM connects Home Assistant to language models running on your own hardware, so you can control smart devices through voice or chat. It's for Home Assistant users who want natural language control without relying on a cloud service or subscription. The project pairs a custom integration with small models trained specifically for smart home commands.

OpenVoiceOS is a free, open-source voice AI platform for people building their own smart speakers or adding voice control to devices. Its core builds on a fork of MycroftAI/mycroft-core, and most classic Mycroft skills also work with it. The project uses the Apache 2.0 license, which permits personal and commercial use.

Blue Iris is paid video security software for people managing cameras at home or across business premises. It runs on a Windows PC and includes built-in AI services, so AI processing doesn't require a separate external server. It combines camera recording with remote viewing and controls.

Wyoming Protocol connects Home Assistant with separate voice services on a trusted network. It's for developers and people assembling a self-hosted voice assistant who want to choose their own speech recognition, speech synthesis and wake word components. The Python project is open source under the MIT license.

DeepFace is a Python library for developers building face recognition into their own applications. It runs locally or as a self-hosted API, including through Docker. A separate managed API at deepface.dev handles processing on hosted infrastructure. The library is open source under the MIT license.

Willow is a self-hosted voice assistant platform for people who want home automation voice control on their own hardware. It runs on Espressif's ESP32-S3-BOX family and connects to Home Assistant, openHAB, or other services that accept speech results over HTTP. The project is open source under Apache 2.0.

PhotoPrism is a self-hosted photo and video library for people who want to organize personal media on their own hardware or server. Its AI recognizes faces and labels pictures by content and location, so finding a photo doesn't depend entirely on folders or tags you've added yourself. You browse and share the library through a web app.

Wyoming Faster Whisper is a local speech-to-text server for Home Assistant and other clients that use the Wyoming protocol. It turns spoken audio into text on your own hardware, with support for names specific to your home. It's open source under the MIT license and runs as a Home Assistant add-on, a Docker container, or a local Python service.

Roboflow Inference is a self-hosted computer vision server for teams building camera and image analysis systems. It runs on your own computer, server, or edge device and combines model predictions with workflows for tracking, counting, measuring, and responding to events. Roboflow also offers hosted servers and a Serverless Cloud API, where processing runs on its infrastructure.

Scrypted is a server-based video integration platform for people who want to view their home cameras through their existing smart home apps and displays. It supports most cameras and focuses on low latency streaming. Its NVR plugin adds continuous recording and smart detections for people who also need a record of what happened.

Viseron is a self-hosted network video recorder (NVR) that combines camera recording with local AI computer vision. It's for people monitoring a home, office or other property who want the video system and its analysis to run on their own hardware. Video processing stays local.

PixlStash is an open-source image manager for photographers, AI creators and people curating image datasets. It combines library search with tools for reviewing tags, ranking images and sending selected work through ComfyUI. You can use a desktop app or a self-hosted server with a browser interface.