RENFIELD
Self-hosted AI assistant with voice satellites, 100+ tool integrations, and full offline capability.
Features
Everything you need for a private, self-hosted AI assistant.
Voice Satellites
Pi Zero 2 W with wake word detection, STT & TTS. One per room, starting at ~30 EUR.
Knowledge Graph
Entities & relations extracted from conversations and documents via LLM, stored with vector embeddings.
RAG Hybrid Search
Dense + BM25 via Reciprocal Rank Fusion. Ingest PDF, DOCX, XLSX, and more.
Presence Detection
BLE scanning, speaker recognition, and web-auth presence. Room-level tracking with privacy-aware TTS.
Agent Loop (100+ Tools)
ReAct agent with 9 MCP servers: Home Assistant, n8n, weather, search, news, calendar, and more.
Long-Term Memory
Learns preferences and facts over time with contradiction detection and semantic recall.
Smart Home
Control Home Assistant devices with natural language. Dynamic keyword matching for accurate intent.
Offline & Private
Your hardware, your data. No cloud dependency. GDPR-compliant by design.
Screenshots
A clean, responsive interface with full dark mode support.
Architecture
Modular design with MCP protocol for tool integration, local LLM inference via Ollama, and a React PWA frontend.
Quick Start
Up and running in three steps. No cloud account required.
Clone & configure
git clone https://github.com/ebongard/renfield.git
cd renfield
cp .env.example .env # edit to your needsStart the stack
docker compose up -dPull a model
docker exec -it renfield-ollama ollama pull qwen3:8b
Open http://localhost:3000 and start chatting.
Tech Stack
Built on proven open-source technologies.