I've been running Home Assistant for 5 years now. No turning back, it's so addictive (in a good sense). I didn't have a chance to start with AI/LLM in HA either, nor did I ever have a chance to use speech with HA. It will all come in this year, I hope. The other day, going through a cluttered drawer, looking for something, it dawned on me that the perfect solution to that problem would be if I could talk to an AI and explain that item X is in drawer Y of cabinet Z in room A. That would be a perfect interface to an inventory management application. And, since I'm using HA more and more for absolutely everything in my life, then, the perfect place to keep all that data would be HA itself. Later on, all that data will be useful in HA anyway, one way or the other. So, yes, if I need to build talk-to-LLM from every room infrastructure, then it would make it much harder to include other projects in the pipeline. HA mobile app already has talk-to-HA functionality which I can't use for Home Memory. And, frankly, having some home related data in Home Assistant, and some other home related data in Home Memory feels like a split brain situation to me. So, ideally, Home Memory should be just an integration/add-on/HACS to Home Assistant, in my humble opinion. What you did there with a windows server is a great start, and I will definitely test it out, but, eventually, I strongly believe it should be fully integrated into Home Assistant. Let me know if I can be of help. Thanks.

You just gave me the idea to 1) photo a cluttered drawer and have AI identify all the things, 2) it'd be nice if it could take that output and structure it (eg, items A, B, and C are in drawer 1) and 3) maybe even have a cheap cameras in the important places that update periodically. I dunno. Also maybe have it connect to this home memory system, ill check it out more. Thank you both!