Zumungo releases free AI home automation system
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Zumungo has released an AI-driven home automation system that is free to install and use, with no subscription fees or paid tiers, and can run on a Raspberry Pi or an old desktop computer. According to its description, the system supports 50,000+ devices and 3,800+ brands; users can control devices by voice or screen, and have the AI assistant automatically generate events and dashboards. The AI part can run in two ways: when choosing an online AI service, that provider bills the user directly based on usage, typically from a few cents to a few dollars per month; to run the AI locally, without sending data out or incurring costs, a computer with an NVIDIA graphics card with 16 GB or more of VRAM is required.
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Zumungo is a free, locally hosted home automation platform that runs on hardware you already own, such as a Raspberry Pi or desktop PC, and supports over 50,000 devices from more than 3,800 brands. It is built around an AI assistant that can answer questions, control devices by voice or screen, and design events and panels, using either an online service (Google Gemini, Anthropic Claude or OpenAI) billed directly by that provider, or a fully local AI on a computer with an NVIDIA graphics card with 16 GB of memory or more. Setup is point-and-click: draw rooms, discover and drag devices into place, then control the home by talking to it.
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