--- title: Building a Simple Home Assistant using Langchain4j and... description: Building a smart home assistant using Langchain4j and Raspberry Pi has become more accessible than ever before. With the help of LLMs and an internet... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/building-a-simple-home-assistant-using-langchain4j-and-raspberry-pi-5y1xcvwyf twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Building a Simple Home Assistant using Langchain4j and Raspberry Pi | daily.dev og:description: Building a smart home assistant using Langchain4j and Raspberry Pi has become more accessible than ever before. With the help of LLMs and an internet... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/building-a-simple-home-assistant-using-langchain4j-and-raspberry-pi-5y1xcvwyf og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/5y1XCVWYf.png og:image:alt: Building a Simple Home Assistant using Langchain4j and Raspberry Pi og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Building a Simple Home Assistant using Langchain4j and Raspberry Pi **[Foojay.io](https://daily.dev/sources/foojayio)** · 17 min read · 24 upvotes · 1 comments ## Summary Building a smart home assistant using Langchain4j and Raspberry Pi has become more accessible than ever before. With the help of LLMs and an internet connection, anyone can create a Generative AI-powered app in minutes. This article demonstrates how to build a simple home assistant that can converse with the user, provide news, analyze the environment, toggle a smart strip on, and answer questions using Langchain4j, Raspberry Pi, and external APIs. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@puzzl3\_mak3r** · 0 upvotes > This quite intriguing, think I should get my hands on some of my spare parts to build this for myself. ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Don’t just attend KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon, Merge Forward your experience\!](https://daily.dev/posts/don-t-just-attend-kubecon-cloudnativecon-merge-forward-your-experience--l0rpp73x8) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Announcing H2 2026 KCDs](https://daily.dev/posts/announcing-h2-2026-kcds-m96goajm1) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Two months of Open Community Groups](https://daily.dev/posts/two-months-of-open-community-groups-asf52zhbs) · CNCF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#ai](https://daily.dev/tags/ai), [#iot](https://daily.dev/tags/iot), [#langchain4j](https://daily.dev/tags/langchain4j), [#raspberry-pi](https://daily.dev/tags/raspberry-pi) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/building-a-simple-home-assistant-using-langchain4j-and-raspberry-pi-5y1xcvwyf) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Building a Simple Home Assistant using Langchain4j and Raspberry Pi","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/building-a-simple-home-assistant-using-langchain4j-and-raspberry-pi-5y1xcvwyf","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/building-a-simple-home-assistant-using-langchain4j-and-raspberry-pi-5y1xcvwyf"},"datePublished":"2024-05-12T05:41:24.662Z","dateModified":"2026-07-09T02:12:52.034Z","description":"Building a smart home assistant using Langchain4j and Raspberry Pi has become more accessible than ever before. 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