I built a local AI assistant with its own home server + MQTT smart-home control — runs entirely on my machine, no cloud, no Home Assistant

Most "local AI" projects are just a chat box wired to Ollama. I wanted the actual assistant, so I've been building one that lives on my machine and does real work. the desktop app is the main thing — it runs my computer (opens apps, windows, mouse, keyboard, screenshots), reads my screen and my PDFs, talks and listens with a wake word I set myself, remembers me across sessions, plans and runs jobs overnight, writes and fixes code, and builds up its own private picture of who I am the more I use it. but the