Local · Private · Yours

Meet Orb2.

The private AI that runs your home.

Orb2 controls your devices, talks back, and keeps an eye on the house — entirely on your own hardware. No cloud, no subscription, no one else listening. Built on Home Assistant, so it works with what you already own.

What it is
One assistant that is your home — it listens, acts, watches, and shows you everything.

Runs your home

Lights, locks, thermostats, shades, plugs, TVs, speakers, robot vacuums. Ask in plain words — "warm up the living room, lock up, dim the kitchen" — and it just happens. It even pairs new devices for you and keeps the setup tidy.

The orb & its widgets

The console is a living green orb. Ask for anything and it answers in floating widgets — a thermostat, the shopping list, a live camera, your day at a glance — draggable cards on a calm canvas.

Watches the house

Nudges before you ask — "the garage has been open 15 minutes." Smoke, CO and leaks alert instantly. Set it to away and any motion pings your phone. Even dying sensor batteries get flagged.

Local & private

Runs on a box in your home. Conversations, camera and voice stay in the house — no cloud account, no monthly fee, nothing to cancel.

Voice — and it knows who's talking

Hands-free continuous speech with a natural voice, all on-device. It learns each family member's voice and answers to the right person with their preferences.

Works with what you own

Built on Home Assistant: Matter, Zigbee, Z-Wave, Wi-Fi and ~1,000 integrations. Orb discovers new devices on your network and offers to set them up.

The whole family

Notes that deliver when someone gets home, chores, shared calendar, per-person reminders, announcements over the speakers — and it greets each member by name.

Shopping that restocks itself

A shared list with staples that re-add themselves ("we buy milk weekly"), price options across stores, and checkout handed to the merchant you trust.

Remembers & suggests

Durable memory plus semantic recall — and it studies how you actually use the house, then proposes automations you approve with one word.

Reach it anywhere

Your box claims its own name.device.orb2.app address with a real HTTPS certificate — remote voice and camera from any browser, no ports opened.

See it work
You talk. The house answers in widgets.

Real capture, unedited: a morning briefing, a pasta timer, staples added to the shopping list, the house armed on the way out, and a map — all by just asking.

Install
Self-host it in minutes — on an NVIDIA box for a fully local brain, or on a Mac, Windows PC or Raspberry Pi with a cloud brain.
# NVIDIA GPU box (fully local brain + voice)
git clone https://github.com/MrQbit/0rb.git && cd 0rb
bash scripts/install.sh
# Mac / Raspberry Pi / any PC (cloud brain)
bash scripts/install-cloudbrain.sh

Local brain

On an NVIDIA box the brain runs at home — a fully local, natively multimodal model on vLLM. Voice and vision stay on-device; nothing leaves the house.

Cloud brain

No GPU? The installer detects your hardware and points the brain at a cloud model of your choice — OpenRouter, OpenAI, or Anthropic. Runs on a Mac mini, a Pi, or any small PC.

Your home, connected

Home Assistant ships inside the stack — Orb2 discovers your devices, helps pair the stubborn ones, and organizes the whole house by room.

Docs: README · Home Assistant · GitHub