Automated Budget Local LLM Home Assistant Voice Assistant (No Cloud)

If you want Google Assistant voice control in Home Assistant, you usually need a Nabu Casa subscription. But I wanted two things:

1. Save money — no monthly subscription.
2. Keep my privacy — no smart-home data leaving my LAN.
3. Utilize my unused gaming PC — put my Intel Arc A580 GPU to work.

So I built my own fully local voice assistant — offline, GPU-accelerated, and integrated with Home Assistant.