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We built a local family assistant that runs our calendar and reminders

His family of three uses a local assistant called Sadie, built on a home server so their calendar, photos and messages stay off cloud services. Sadie runs their shared calendar, sends location based reminders, answers texts and emails, searches family photos, and sorts household mail, flagging bills and school deadlines.

How it works

  1. Sadie is built as a tailored Open WebUI fork on a home server running local models
  2. It is wired into HomeAssistant, the family calendar, family photos, SMS and email
  3. It sends a reminder when a family phone leaves a zone, answers questions by text, and runs scheduled jobs that sort household mail and log key dates on the calendar

Why it’s worth knowing

A box in their office runs the family calendar, watches where their phones are and sorts the household mail, and none of their family data goes to a cloud service.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on jduncan.io. See the original ↗

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