Open WebUI, Ollama, Home Assistant Yellow, Raspberry Pi AI HAT+, and local voice stacks that keep inference off the public cloud.
The software boxes and hubs that turn hardware into a house AI
The platform layer of a home AI server is not the GPU. It is the tab you open instead of a cloud chatbot.
Yellow is still the official Home Assistant hardware. CM5 and Hailo support turned it into a local-AI satellite, not just a Zigbee brick.
The cheapest way to say you run local AI that is not a lie — vision, small LLMs, and a very warm case.