Blog¶
Notes on self-hosted voice, local LLMs, and how Jarvis is built — written for people who run their own infrastructure.
Docker-stack releases (note added 21 October 2026)
These posts were written for the old Docker/microservice install, which is now retired. The 0.2.0 and 0.3.0 releases they announce are Docker-stack releases, not versions of Jarvis Automation, the single-binary server that replaced it. To install today, see Install.
Jarvis starts paying attention¶
· Jarvis 0.3.0 stops only answering when spoken to and starts noticing — you heading out for an appointment, arriving home, a game ending — then reacts, quietly and on your terms. A "leave by 2:55" nudge that does the math on your node, presence that shares only home/away, plain-English automations, and a voice loop that talks back in about two seconds.
Jarvis picks up the phone¶
· Jarvis 0.2.0 can make real phone calls on your behalf — book a table, ask a shop if they've got the thing, call the vet. The hard part wasn't the phone; it was the manners. Plus errands you describe out loud, a scheduler, and a Jarvis that finally has a personality you get to pick.
Everything was green¶
· Three weeks before shipping, almost every serious bug had the same shape: a system reporting success while doing nothing. A /health returning 200 while every completion failed, a destroy that exited 0 and destroyed nothing, twenty-six passing tests over a function that always crashed — and what we built to stop believing our own green checks.
Self-hosted voice assistants in the LLM era¶
· An honest look at the landscape — what Rhasspy, OVOS and Home Assistant Assist each actually do in 2026 — and what we built Jarvis to close: an assistant that knows who is talking, no outbound connections by default, and a package store for voice capabilities.