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Self-hosted voice assistant with mobile app (lemmy.world)
submitted 5 months ago by eager_eagle@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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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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[–] wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works 27 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Home Assistant can absolutely do that. If you are ok with simple intent based phrasing it'll do it out of the box. If you want complex understanding and reasoning you'll have to run a local LLM, like Llama, on top of it

[–] eager_eagle@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

yeah, that's what I'm looking for. Do you know of a way to integrate ollama with HA?

[–] lyralycan@sh.itjust.works 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

I don't think there's a straightforward way like a HACS integration yet, but you can access Ollama from the web with open-webui and save the page to your homepage:

Just be warned, you'll need a lot of resources depending on which model you choose and its parameter count (4B, 7B etc) -- Gemma3 4B uses around 3GB storage, 0.5GB RAM and 4GB of VRAM to respond. It's a compromise as I can't get replacement RAM, and tends to be wildly inaccurate with large responses. The one I'd rather use, Dolphin-Mixtral 22B, takes 80GB storage and 17GB min RAM, the latter of which I can't afford to take from my other services.

[–] excursion22@piefed.ca 14 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

There's an Ollama integration that adds it as a conversation agent.

[–] hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

And there's another custom component, integrating all servers with an OpenAI-compatible API endpoint: https://github.com/jekalmin/extended_openai_conversation

[–] eager_eagle@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago

ah, this puts it together and it's exactly what I was looking for, thanks