MERLIN home assistant

MERLIN is a voice-first AI home assistant that learns how your household works. Instead of treating every interaction like a new conversation, MERLIN builds a persistent, entity-based understanding of the people, pets, rooms, devices, preferences, routines, and relationships that make a home unique. It can remember where your dog likes to sleep, how bright you prefer the kitchen lights, which room a device belongs to, and the instructions you want followed every time. MERLIN’s memory is designed around trust. Information from the current conversation is available immediately, while long-term memories are reviewed and consolidated after the conversation ends. Memories retain their source, subject, conditions, and history. Corrections create new versions instead of silently erasing the past, temporary details remain temporary, and conflicting instructions are surfaced when they matter. Learned preferences remain separate from explicit do-and-don’t rules, and household members can inspect, edit, or delete what MERLIN remembers. Powered by Meta models, MERLIN can understand natural requests, transcribe speech, search the live web, interpret its device camera with permission, manage timers and routines, and coordinate connected-home tools. It connects directly to services such as Home Assistant, Philips Hue, Shelly, SwitchBot, Rachio, and Spotify, with Home Assistant providing a path to many additional smart-home brands. Device actions are executed and verified by code, so MERLIN reports what actually happened rather than trusting generated text. The vision is a home assistant that feels less like a collection of apps and more like a capable member of the household: always accessible, easy to talk to, aware of context, and increasingly useful without becoming intrusive. Local wake-word detection keeps idle audio out of the cloud, camera use requires explicit permission, credentials remain outside model prompts, and memories stay inspectable and removable. MERLIN brings that experience to life through a friendly animated character and a shared home display. It can listen, remember, search, see when invited, operate connected devices, and carry knowledge from one conversation into the next—creating an assistant that understands both the request being made and the home in which it matters.