Using LLM in Home Automations

Unleashing the Power of LLMs: Automating the Impossible

Are you ready to witness the magic of automation in the digital age? Picture this: your calendar schedules, email security, and smart home gadgets all effortlessly overseen by a brilliant system. Thanks to mind-blowing technologies like Large Language Models (LLMs), such wonders are no longer a distant dream but a thrilling reality! Here are three ways I use LLM’s in my everyday automations🌟🤖🏡

Summarizing Your Life: Calendar Events and Notifications

My calendar is packed with events, meetings, and notifications and I often have trouble keeping track of everything becuase it’s overwhelming. My wife has this appointment, my kid has this play-date - there’s just so much! Here’s how I use LLMs to help. By simply my calendar as a JSON object and providing clear instructions to the LLM it effortlessly summarize my calendar events and notifications. This means I get a concise, easy-to-digest overview of my schedule without sifting through endless details. This is extremely useful at night where my automations read out the schedule for the following day to make sure I don’t forget about early morning responsibilities (I’ve missed several 8am appointments without it). This level of automation saves me time and keeps me organized, which simply reduces my cognitive load.

Securing Your Digital Life: Email Filtering and Alerts

Did you know I legitimately got my Facebook account hack by Chinese hackers? True story. You can watch it here. The interesting part was that Facebook was sending me a play-by-play of the hacker’s expert moves via email while I was sleeping so there was nothing I could do in the moment to stop it. But what if i could have an LLM watch my email? They don’t need sleep so it works out. Imagine having an intelligent system that detects unauthorized access warnings, identifies suspicious receipts, and flags hidden subscriptions. Now I am not saying that this is perfect but it is better than nothing and acts as the last line of defense on top of all the other best practices like MFA.

The biggest hypocritical gotcha with this is that you would need to send the contents of your email to OpenAI’s servers for the LLM to interpret your safety and if the email contain sensitive information then this defeats the purpose. However the work around to this is using a local LLM. This way your data never leaves your home and you get the benefit of a tireless email watchdog ensuring that important alerts never slip through the cracks.

Smart Home, Smarter Automation: Controlling Devices

There are different companies with their own proprietary ecosystem. They all want your dat - i mean money and they entice us by offering cool devices and gimmicky user experiences. But as a man’s man (or a lady’s lady), you build your own smart home using open source tools and value control. But this comes at a cost: A smart home is complex to maintain. Enter LLMs. In my smart-home many of the devices are passive however, if I want to control a device I can ask the LLM and it can do it for me! I simply provide the LLM the state of my devices and then ask it questions or give it commands. Though i can create automations manually, the trick is getting these custom automations to be used by the Smart Home Cartel (Amazon, Google, Apple). But an LLM lets me break away from their system and with some time and elbow grease, I can have my own proprietary smart home assistant

The Surprising Twist: Local LLMs with AI-Intent

And here’s something that can help make this come true: You can use tools like AI-Intent to create your own smart home logic that leverages your OpenAI (and Ollama coming soon). Because AI-Intent is node-red based, it has tremendous power and flexibility that out muscles Home Assistant’s native platform. Node red gives you the power to do just about anything which mean your automation can do just about anything. I create this video that walks you through the setup and how the nodes work.

TL;DR

The integration of LLMs into our daily lives is no longer a distant dream but a present reality. From managing calendar events to enhancing email security and controlling smart home devices, LLMs are transforming the way we live and work. So, why not let LLMs handle the mundane while you focus on what you love? Use tools like Home Assistant, Node-Red and AI-Intent to leverage the power of LLM’s and automate without borders. We are redefining the boundaries of what’s possible. So embrace the change, and automate everything else 😛