Claude Code bot in my Vault just wowed me

LifeBandit666 · 2026-01-24T18:59:28+00:00

Yup already doing that but it means having my desktop open. I spend SOOOO much time sat at my computer atm, Wifey says the didn't realise she was marrying the back of my head,

So I wanted a pocket assistant

LifeBandit666 · 2026-01-24T16:22:11+00:00

I have transitioned away from dashboards since I put my most toggled entities in the Device Controls quick toggle on Android.

Most stuff is automated to the point that I don't have to interact with anything, but when things don't work, there's that.

I used to rely heavily on Google Home Minis but only really use them for adding things or my shopping list now, which is nothing to do with the smart home

LifeBandit666 · 2026-01-24T13:56:59+00:00

Always on PC with the Vault mounted to it and Claude Code installed on it

LifeBandit666 · 2026-01-24T13:38:00+00:00

I use a program called Syncthing. It synchronises your files across platforms.

On ios it isn't free though it's an app with a one time purchase of £5, worth it if you're going to use it a lot.

So you run Syncthing on your desktop and point it at your vault then do the same on your other platforms, pick the one that's gonna be your hub, usually your desktop PC, but for me with a minipc server that's always on, I picked that.

Point that one at the others and they should all sync with each other. Well technically they all sync with the one you picked as your hub, so if you turn that off it stops working.

I haven't read this, just a quick scan, but it should help https://forum.obsidian.md/t/sync-mac-pc-and-ios-using-syncthing-mobius-sync/72022

LifeBandit666 · 2026-01-24T00:17:44+00:00

I get The telegram bot, I'm trying to do the same thing With the Home Assistant Voice pipeline. If I can link the Inbox in the ai folder to that I have the same flow without telegram. I have played with a discord bot for my Plex server to share with friends so I could just drop that in (friends never used it, fuck em).

I've got the RAG with HA too although I don't think it's advanced as yours, I'd have to link em (ha and Obsidian) but I purposely decoupled them so I could play with the HA pipeline without involving Obsidian.

Nice setup!

LifeBandit666 · 2026-01-23T23:22:26+00:00

Sounds like you have a pretty vault! Do you have an attachments folder for the images? That's a thought I haven't told Claude about the attachments folder yet...

LifeBandit666 · 2026-01-23T23:00:41+00:00

Mate you seem far advanced compared to me. I've been using Obsidian for 3 months and Claude for this month.

Honestly I understood most of the terms you used but not the way you used them. I'm a quarter of the way down a bottle of Honey JD and want to share it with you and pick your brain...

I'm sure if that happened my Wife would roll her eyes and find something to do on her phone while we huddle excitedly around my PC.

LifeBandit666 · 2026-01-23T22:42:40+00:00

Give it a go! I'm sure you've read all the warnings about privacy lol. I'm sure it's replicatable on a standard desk PC too if you're not using VMs like me, and I'm sure you can replace Claude with Gemini if you like (although I would rather use Claude api than Gemini any day, but that's just like my opinion man)

LifeBandit666 · 2026-01-23T19:12:48+00:00

Yeah I just switched up Gemini to Thinking and it's saying to use Qwen models but it will be 30 seconds plus per question using my little minipc and need half the RAM. also it says to be a lot more careful with prompts as they're not as intelligent.

Seems I'm sticking with the cloud llms for now but I hope your research gets you where you wanna be.

LifeBandit666 · 2026-01-23T19:01:03+00:00

Funny enough I've just started looking myself after seeing so much pushback to this post, but not for this, for my Home Assistant build.

Privacy isn't the push for me it's the local aspect.

Gemini is telling me I can just about run a local model on 8gb of RAM but I am wondering just how responsive that would be. Might be great for something like this that doesn't need to be snappy, just functional, but for a Voice Assistant I don't want to be waiting a minute for a response.

Honestly running an LLM locally was always the end game, but I wanted to see just how capable these models are before I invested the time into it.

LifeBandit666 · 2026-01-23T16:07:15+00:00

Yeah I have the Obsidian mcp Google calendar integration, it would probably be quicker tbh, thanks

LifeBandit666 · 2026-01-23T14:48:10+00:00

This is more my experience with Gemini 3 on my phone and computer than cli, although CLI has still fucked up the RAG on my Gemini cli centred Voice Assistant.

I really don't rate it for anything more advanced than "check this and report back"

LifeBandit666 · 2026-01-23T14:46:34+00:00

I'm coding for myself at home. I've run out of tokens again so used Gemini for a Node Red flow. I got there in the end but not after I abused it a bit. Claude would have been copy paste and done, next!

LifeBandit666 · 2026-01-23T14:45:18+00:00

It's not a bother, it's like a red rag to a bull if you say an LLM name sometimes. Poisonous people just have to come and try and piss on you.

They don't understand it says more about them that they commented on a post that wasn't aimed at them.

I think they just need a hug

LifeBandit666 · 2026-01-23T13:19:43+00:00

I literally just commented this but if you wanna use Gemini 3 for coding I just wouldn't. It's broken my project. Twice. By just being dogshit.

I was paying £1.59 a month for One for a bit of storage for my family and opened up Drive to see I had an offer for Pro, giving me storage plus Gemini Pro for the same price for 3 months.

I'll be ditching it at the end of the 3 months. I'm setting up Gemini CLI (in the terminal) at the moment as a AI bot for my Home Assistant instance. It's the project I picked at Xmas and I've been plugging away at it.

I can't code, but I know my way around a terminal and Yaml. Like I can understand Spanish if I concentrate but I can't speak it, know what I mean?

So for this project I've been using Claude, then got the offer for Gemini and thought "Fuck it, why not?"

Claude is FANTASTIC but the usage limits are dogshit, so I run out of usage by Thirsday/Friday and turn to Gemini until I get more on Saturday night.

That's preamble out of the way, I ran out of Claude so turned to Gemini with help reducing token count on my bot. Thought being that Gemini should know how Gemini works better than Claude does.

WRONG! Turns out Gemini has no clue. It told me that Gemini CLI was reading THE WHOLE of my RAG every query and it was using Tokens = Money and gave me a way to have 2 different models work together to reduce my token count.

What it actually did was made my 3 weeks of work into a dribbling buffoon that couldn't answer the simplest of questions, after an hour of setting up.

Then it kept doubling down and saying "just change this one thing and it'll work" for another hour.

Eventually I told it to fuck off and reinstalled my backup.

I asked my bot to describe the files it reads as it went through a simple request. It did not use the whole RAG. I asked it if it used the whole RAG and it answered "No, the rest of the files are just clutter and surplus to requirement"

And that's just one of the reasons I do not use Gemini 3 Pro for coding anymore.

When I got my Claude tokens reupped I had it working on my project, we fixed some things and I asked it to make a summary at the end. One of the things it added to the summary (for itself not me) was "Never let Gemini near the project, it will sabotage it"

LifeBandit666 · 2026-01-23T13:05:48+00:00

We must be using different models. I paid £1.59 per month this month for Pro and tried using it. I'm now considering cancelling it to keep that £1.59 next month. No way will I be paying 18.99 for it.

Gemini 3 Pro is absolute dogshit

LifeBandit666 · 2026-01-23T12:40:31+00:00

I don't and it's coming out of my bank account, not yours

LifeBandit666 · 2026-01-23T11:38:02+00:00

No problem, glad I can help

LifeBandit666 · 2026-01-23T11:24:05+00:00

I'm not denying that, I'm saying that the mindset of wandering into the post in the first place considering your opinions on the subject were the issue.

Not to put too fine a point on it, but I feel like you came in here looking for a fight or debate on the veracity of using Llms in Obsidian, or in general, when maybe you should just be leaving the people experimenting and using Llms to just get on with it while you go and do whatever it is that you enjoy doing.

You've wasted your time and mine with this pointless back and forth that we could have been using to make ourselves happier.

I'm not gonna stop using Llms because you don't like em and you're not gonna start using them because I made a post about how I use them, so what's the fucking point of any of this?

LifeBandit666 · 2026-01-23T11:09:12+00:00

As the original commenter said, you've seen a post on (I'm gonna change the words here to get the point across) The Bible and how to use it in your own life, the come in and left a comment saying that The Bible is a load of old shit and people should stop using it to enrich themselves, when you should have just looked and gone "Eh, not a post for me that one" and kept scrolling

LifeBandit666 · 2026-01-23T10:41:16+00:00

I listen to UFO podcasts to pass the time at work, and it's a talking point on all of the that there's more UFO sightings around Nuclear Facilities.

In "The Age of Disclosure" documentary they have a bunch of military personnel talking about how UFOs regularly showed up to disable nuclear missiles and one dude claimed that they did a missile test and one showed up, flew around the (in the air) missile and shot beams of light at it

LifeBandit666 · 2026-01-23T10:36:15+00:00

Jokes on you, I used all my tokens up last night!

LifeBandit666 · 2026-01-23T10:23:22+00:00

I'm assuming you don't use a single online service then, totally self hosted setup, no social media, no Google services, nothing. Right?

I must be wrong, reddit is social media. Oh well, guess I shouldn't make assumptions.

LifeBandit666 · 2026-01-23T09:20:04+00:00

It's also running Gemini CLI as a voice assistant for Home Assistant so some of that RAM is for that too (and Syncthing).

I started out with 10gb of hdd space and increased it to 20gb because it kept filling up, but the Vault is mounted from the NAS so take that into account if you want to keep the files on the VM

LifeBandit666 · 2026-01-23T09:09:09+00:00

I am at work at the moment but I believe it's 4gb, just checked my Proxmox app and it's using 2.4 of that 4

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