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A while ago, I wrote an article on how to control Home Assistant with Luna LLM. This worked out okay at the time. The Luna LLM didn't always do great, but it was the one local LLM I could make work with OpenAI Funtions, as required by the Extended OpenAI Conversation integration.

The downfall

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While it's easy to make a local assist pipeline, and get away from Google Assistant or Alexa, it's not really that easy to go all local and still have decent performance. I'll show you how you can go completely local on all stages - and still have blazing fast performance.

Before you start config...

This article will explain how to set up Traefik as a web proxy for Home Assistant. You will also get instructions on how to set up a secure connection over HTTPS; with free SSL-certificates from Letsencrypt, and finally, a way to solve dynamic IP provisioning from your ISP.

Pre-requisites

For th...

Have you been using GoDaddy's API for validating your SSL Certificates and updating your DNS records when your ISP changes your public IP? Well, if you are like me and don't have at least 10 domains or an active Discount Domain Club plain, you're getting the {"code":"ACCESS_DENIED","message":"Authe...

Are you frustrated about not being understood when talking to you smart home? Are you Norwegian? Despair no more.

This is how you can use the Norwegian language model trained by National Library of Norway Ai Labs on 20.000 hours of labeled sound material. You can find the model files on Hugging...

There are so many tips for monitoring your servers or raspberries through Home Assistant. Some involve Prometheus and the Grafana Add-on, some involve the RPi Reporter MQTT2HA Daemon, and others suggest Glances in various flavors.

Pick the easy (although maybe bloated) way out - and just install G...