One assistant for voice, vision, memory, automations, smart-home control, music, messaging, and more—running on hardware you control.
Tater is an open-source AI platform designed to provide the everyday experience of Siri or Alexa while keeping the assistant, its personality, and its data on hardware the user controls.
- Talk naturally from around the home with dedicated voice satellites, wake words, reply playback, and multiroom audio.
- Choose the brain by running local models with llama.cpp, MLX, Hugging Face Transformers, or another local model server.
- Give the assistant useful context through memory, awareness, cameras, Face ID, people, event history, and searchable conversations.
- Make things happen with automations, smart-home devices, notifications, media playback, and modular integrations.
- Reach Tater from almost anywhere through companion apps, smart-home platforms, messaging services, voice hardware, and even an original Xbox.
Voice, vision, memory, and automation run locally on the user's own hardware.
| Repository | Role in Tater |
|---|---|
| Tater | The Spud Hub: AI runtime, WebUI, voice, vision, memory, awareness, automations, music, portals, and device control. |
| Tater Shop | Versioned catalog for Cores, Portals, and Verbas that add capabilities to Tater. |
| Tater Integrations | Installable connectors that let Tater discover, control, and interact with supported devices, platforms, and services. |
| TaterBench | Repeatable accuracy and performance benchmarks for models used with Tater. |
| Repository | Role in Tater |
|---|---|
| Tater Native Firmware | Native voice-satellite firmware for supported embedded hardware. |
| Tater Linux Satellite | Voice and persistent-music satellite runtime for Linux computers, Raspberry Pi systems, and robots. |
| ThirdReality Voice Firmware | Tater-native firmware, provisioning, signed OTA updates, and recovery support for the ThirdReality Voice & Music Assistant. |
| Home Assistant Satellite Bridge | Lets Tater Native voice satellites work directly with Home Assistant Assist. |
| Tater Wake Words | Ready-to-use wake-word catalog with automated requests for users who cannot train their own models. |
| microWakeWord Trainer for Apple Silicon | macOS app for training custom wake words, reviewing satellite captures, and flashing Tater Native firmware. |
| microWakeWord Trainer for NVIDIA Docker | CUDA/Docker toolkit for training custom wake words, reviewing satellite captures, and flashing Tater Native firmware. |
| Repository | Role in Tater |
|---|---|
| Little Spud | Native iOS and Android companion apps for chat, voice, media, notifications, and remote access. |
| Little Spud WebUI | Lightweight browser client for connecting to Tater through Spud Link. |
| Tater Tunnel | Private, user-controlled remote access for securely reaching a Tater hub and connected devices from outside the home. |
| Home Assistant Add-ons | Packages Tater and its supporting services for installation through the Home Assistant Add-on Store. |
| Repository | Role in Tater |
|---|---|
| Tater Tube | Retro VCR-style frontend for local media, live TV, media servers, and streamed games on Raspberry Pi. |
| Tater Tube Steam | Open-source Linux x86_64 and Steam port of the Tater Tube experience. |
| Cortana AI for XBMC4Xbox | Brings Tater chat, recommendations, smart-home control, and modern connected features to the original Xbox. |
| Tater Tube Server | Tater's music and media backend: indexes local libraries, powers Tape Deck and Tater Tube, manages players and queues, builds Tube TV channels, streams remote media, and provides optional hardware transcoding. |
Tater is being built as an assistant that feels present throughout the home while remaining adaptable and owner-controlled. The hub, satellites, apps, integrations, and media projects are separate repositories so each piece can evolve independently—but together they form one assistant ecosystem.
Start with Tater, or explore the guides at taterassistant.com.