home automation

Build a private, cloud-free AI smart home on Linux using Podman containers for Mosquitto (MQTT), Home Assistant, Node-RED, Zigbee2MQTT, and Ollama, enabling low-latency, LAN-only control of lights and sensors with Bash. The guide covers setup, pairing, local LLM intent parsing, MQTT scenes, energy tips, firewall and serial access tweaks, plus next steps for voice control, flows, secure remote access, and backups.