https://bitworking.org/tags/llm/ Recent content in LLM on BitWorking Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Sun, 17 May 2026 22:14:34 -0400 https://bitworking.org/news/2026/05/surprising-things-i-learned-putting-together-a-home-brain/ Sun, 17 May 2026 22:14:34 -0400 https://bitworking.org/news/2026/05/surprising-things-i-learned-putting-together-a-home-brain/ So, I’m trying to put together something I call a “Home Brain”, a conversational system I can interact with that not only allows me to control IoT devices in my home, but also contains personal knowledge I can access, and also more general knowledge (think wikipedia), and yet all this functionality should run locally, with no cloud services required. I initially started down this path with Home Assistant, adding all of our IoT devices into Home Assistant running on an RPi, which worked fine, but when I took the next step of buying a couple Home Assistant Voice Preview Edition devices I found the performance of the RPi was painfully slow.