# What it can do

A rough tour of what runs in the lab, in plain terms:

**Media.** A personal media server so my household can watch our own library on
any screen in the house, plus a self-service way for the household to add to it.
(If you have an account, the other books here cover how to use it.)

**Home automation.** Lights, sensors, and various smart-home gadgets tied
together into one local system, with routines that run on a schedule or on
triggers — all processed at home rather than in a vendor's cloud.

**A voice assistant.** A fully local, privacy-respecting voice assistant — the
speech recognition, the "brain," and the text-to-speech all run on my own
hardware. Nothing it hears leaves the house.

**Local AI.** I run large language models on local hardware for
experimentation — chat, summarizing, tidying up transcripts, that sort of
thing. Again, entirely self-hosted; no external API.

**This wiki.** Documentation for the lab, and friendly guides like the ones
you're reading.

**A few odds and ends.** Dashboards, a pantry/kitchen helper, scheduled
maintenance jobs, and whatever project I'm building out on this month.