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How I Built JARVIS for My Home: A Local Voice Command Deck on a Mac Mini
A local-first home assistant running on a single Mac mini: wake word, speech-to-text, a small local model and text-to-speech, plus a sci-fi dashboard that speaks a factual daily briefing from my outdoor cameras. No audio or video leaves the house for inference.
Aug 28, 202614 min readRead
My Smart Home Runs on a Raspberry Pi. Matter Might Eventually Make That Less Necessary.
A step-by-step guide to running Homebridge on a Raspberry Pi, the plugins that make it worthwhile, and why Matter is changing the role of the bridge rather than killing it.
Aug 8, 202616 min readRead
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