There’s a new voice assistant in town, and this one can work locally in your home without phoning home to its corporate overloads. This week, the popular hobbyist smart home platform Home ...

and the LLM-based Assist will—in theory, at least–know what to do. The best news about Home Assistant’s new LLM-enabled voice assistant capabilities is that they’re available right now.

Users can now customize backup retention rules, enjoy new voice options, monitor device connections, and paste YAML code. Home Assistant has hit 2 million installations, offering offline ...