

There are some experimental models made specifically for use with Home Assistant, for example home-llm.
Even though they are tiny 1-3B I’ve found them to work much better than even 14B general purpose models. Obviously they suck for general purpose questions just by their size alone.
That being said they’re still LLMs. I like to keep the “prefer handling commands locally” option turned on and only use the LLM as a fallback.
Great video. Something I want to touch on:
He kinda makes the assertion that supply must exceed demand which I guess is ok for most items.
Especially in SA once you leave a surface, demand of most items will plummet close to 0. The only demand will be ship requests and defense stuff.
But I can’t count the number of times I had to go back and increase iron plate production, green chips, copper, red chips, etc… It’s always the same few items but as your factory grows, demand seems to always beat supply at multiple stages.
In those cases these kinds of balancers will not distribute the little supply evenly, making parts of the factory grind to a halt which is not ideal.