Jarvis¶

A voice assistant you own completely. Runs on your network, keeps your data private, and does what you tell it -- not what a corporation decides.

TLDR

Jarvis is a self-hosted, open-source voice assistant. Cheap Pi Zero nodes in each room connect to a server you control. An on-device AI understands your commands, controls your smart home, and remembers your preferences. No cloud. No subscriptions. No one listening. Install in 10 minutes with one command:

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/alexberardi/jarvis-admin/main/install.sh | sh

New to this? Read Why Jarvis? for the full picture.

At a Glance¶

Fully private — No cloud dependencies. All data stays on your network.
Self-hostable — Same open-source codebase for local and cloud deployments.
Extensible — Add capabilities by implementing a single Python interface.
Voice-first — Wake word detection, speech-to-text, LLM routing, text-to-speech.
Speaker-aware — Identifies who's speaking and remembers per-person preferences.
Use anywhere — Voice nodes, mobile app, web chat -- all connected to one backend.

Architecture at a Glance¶

graph LR
    Node["Pi Zero Node<br/>(mic + speaker)"] -->|voice audio| CC["Command Center"]
    CC -->|audio| Whisper["Whisper API<br/>(speech-to-text)"]
    Whisper -->|text| CC
    CC -->|intent| LLM["LLM Proxy<br/>(tool routing)"]
    LLM -->|tool call| CC
    CC -->|execute| CMD["Your Command<br/>(IJarvisCommand)"]
    CMD -->|result| CC
    CC -->|text| TTS["TTS<br/>(text-to-speech)"]
    TTS -->|audio| Node

Quick Links¶


Getting Started	Install Jarvis, start services, and send your first voice command.
Extending Jarvis	The plugin system — commands, agents, device adapters, prompt providers, and more.
Architecture	Understand the voice pipeline, service discovery, and authentication patterns.
Cloud Services	Pantry (command store), Notifications Relay, Web Chat, and the Command SDK.
Services	Reference for every microservice — APIs, configuration, and dependencies.

Built-in Commands¶

Jarvis ships with these commands out of the box:

Command	Description
`calculate`	Arithmetic operations
`control_device`	Smart home device control
`get_device_status`	Query smart home device state
`chat`	Open-ended LLM conversation
`answer_question`	Factual Q&A
`set_timer`	Countdown timers
`check_timers`	List active timers
`cancel_timer`	Cancel a running timer
`reminder`	Set, list, delete, and snooze reminders (with recurrence)
`routine`	Multi-step automations
`tell_a_joke`	Random jokes
`whats_up`	Morning briefing (weather + calendar + news)
`convert_measurement`	Unit conversions
`get_current_time`	Current time in any timezone
... and more	See the full command list

Many commands that were previously built-in have been extracted to installable Pantry packages, including: get_weather, get_news, get_sports_scores, search_web, tell_a_story, bluetooth, music, email, get_calendar_events, and device families (Kasa, LIFX, Govee, Apple, Nest). Install them from the Pantry with a single CLI command.