Published onSeptember 4, 2026Cameras, a local LLM, and a pile of wrong assumptionshome-serverself-hostedfrigatenvrhome-assistantollamalocal-aicomputer-visionautomationHAI pointed a spare 3090 at four cameras and a house full of Home Assistant entities to build a fully local NVR with a local voice assistant. Most of what I assumed going in turned out to be wrong. Here is what actually held up.
