I’m running it on a pi5. It was able to handle everything including voice easily although the voice thing out of the box is quite limited. I was able to do a lot with it through automations with custom commands though. It was pretty much able to replace my Google assistant system.

I’ve now upgraded it with ollama and Whisper on a network device (old laptop with i7 CPU and GTX1050 mobile GPU) and that works perfectly with llama3.2:3b. Pretty accurate and works well enough. Especially useful coupled with the local home assistant command processing since that by passes the LLM.

But that’s not the European way of doing things! First we wait till the problem is big enough that it can’t be ignored anymore, then we start discussing if we should do anything about it.

Due to this we now have significant problems with our outdated infrastructure though. So incase other countries want to follow the Dutch example, please don’t neglect your energy infrastructure! We have situations where building projects (both industrial and residential) have to wait months for a connection to the energy grid which creates it’s own giant mess of problems.