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Local AI
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Local AI
Frigate + Home Assistant: Person, Car, and Package Detection Without a Cloud Subscription!
Cloud cameras charge you monthly to watch your own house. Frigate flips that: real-time person, car, and package detection on your own hardware, wired straight into Home Assistant — no subscription, no footage leaving your network.
·5 min read
Local AI
Ditch Alexa: Build a Fully Local Voice Assistant with Home Assistant, Whisper, and Piper!
Alexa and Google listen in from the cloud. Your smart home can do better. Here's the full recipe for a voice assistant that runs 100% on your own hardware — wake word, speech-to-text, and a voice to answer back — using Home Assistant Assist, Whisper, and Piper.
·7 min read
Local AI
Why Run AI Locally? Privacy, Cost, and Control — The Case for Self-Hosted AI!
Cloud AI is convenient — until you look at the subscription bill and think about where your data goes. Here's why running AI on your own hardware is the next chapter of the self-hosting story and how easy it's become to start.
·6 min read