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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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[–] lyralycan@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

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.