omega.neilsmith.io

OMEGA

Omni-purpose Machine Entity for Generated Assistance

A fully local, privacy-first smart home — built by an engineer who got tired of his lights depending on someone else's servers.

OMEGA is my personal home automation project. No cloud. No subscriptions. No vendor lock-in. Just a Proxmox server in the corner, Home Assistant running on bare metal, and a growing network of local devices that work whether the internet is up or not.

This site documents the build — the decisions, the rabbit holes, the wins, and the inevitable 2am debugging sessions that come with doing things properly.

// ARCHITECTURE

Components

[01] IN DEVELOPMENT
OMEGA Core
The intelligence layer.

Coordinates automation, context, knowledge and decision making across the OMEGA ecosystem.

[02] OPERATIONAL
OMEGA Voice
Natural interaction.

Local wake word detection, speech recognition and conversational control through distributed voice satellites.

[03] IN DEVELOPMENT
OMEGA Automation
Governed execution.

Home Assistant, workflows, intelligent actions and connected systems operating through a common control layer.

// COMING ONLINE

Roadmap

LIVE OMEGA Voice
Wake word, microphone, speaker and conversational pipeline operational.
ACTIVE OMEGA Core
Knowledge, automation and context services in development.
PLANNED OMEGA Vision
Future local AI acceleration using Hailo-8 and computer vision.
PLANNED OMEGA Knowledge
Documentation, manuals and contextual retrieval systems planned.
CONCEPT OMEGA Guard
Monitoring, awareness and anomaly detection concepts under evaluation.

Not another cloud assistant.
A local-first intelligence platform designed to work with the systems you already control.

// ELSEWHERE

The Network