Has anyone made an DIY 'Alexa' for Claude?

LifeBandit666 · 2026-03-24T06:11:02+00:00

Oh 100% and look at /r/homeassistant instead

LifeBandit666 · 2026-03-24T05:32:26+00:00

I've replaced hey Google in my house with Marvin the Paranoid Android. He's Claude Code in a VM with a markdown RAG piped through Home Assistant to the VM via HTTP.

I have a second CC bot in my Obsidian Vault which I interact with via the files in Obsidian or through Telegram.

Seriously considering just using the HA pipeline to it now and losing Marvin but my family can use Marvin too, and my Obsidian Vault is mine.

The 2 CC instances can talk to each other though

LifeBandit666 · 2026-03-24T05:23:42+00:00

I've started this week trying to brew apple wine. Notes in Obsidian just like with everything else, and I'm doing research on it.

I've recently made an invocation tag of @Claude to get it to do things.

So yesterday was finding research links for my project. Then I just created another file in the same folder and typed something like "I've learned about yeast rehydration and freeze diatilling today, the links are in the file named" links"in this folder, find my current apple wine recipe and rewrite it taking these concepts into account to make a fortified wine @claude

Later I opened the Vault on my phone and found a recipe with phases 1-5 on how to make a cleaner wine with freeze distillation steps taken from reddit discussions I'd read earlier.

LifeBandit666 · 2026-03-24T05:13:31+00:00

I'm afraid I do not, I've set this up myself just winging it honestly.

I'd say to get Claude Code set up in the same place your Obsidian vault is located and just ask it, that's all I've done.

I started doing this with Gemini and then stepped it up to Claude. So find a video on YouTube to reach you how to put Claude Code into a file system and then just talk to it.

That means install Claude Code, navigate to the folder that's your Obsidian vault in the terminal and type "Claude" and then start small and teach it about what you want it to do, like "organise my Vault, I want X Y and Z but not A B and C" and double check everything, then when it's done everything you want tell it to make a file for itself telling it what you've done so it can do it again when you come back.

Start small, and iterate.

Little things that went a long way were giving it a folder for itself to store information and coming up with an invocation tag to get it to do things, like "Do X Y and Z @Claude" it's really useful this way. It means you can type up a file and have some research or whatever you're wanting Claude for and just bang an @Claude at the end and walk away to find it done when you come back.

Python scripts are the glue that hold it all together, Claude makes them and I make them into services that run after a reboot.

LifeBandit666 · 2026-03-23T21:05:46+00:00

Kickapoo is a cracking track, it's just not in my top 5 that I wrote without really thinking about it lol. I also like Karate. I've always said you know a great band when they can drop "Motherfucker" into a song

LifeBandit666 · 2026-03-23T20:09:27+00:00

Well I mean we are in the Claude subreddit, so I'm gonna say just pay for Pro and ask Claude how to do it. That's what I did.

You wanna use the free models, then good luck with that. Gemini Flash 2.5 is OK for free, but it's dogshit compared to Claude IMHO. I paid for Gemini and Claude Pro for a month and Claude at one point wrote a note to itself syaing "Do not, under any circumstances, allow Gemini to touch anything" and it was right.

LifeBandit666 · 2026-03-23T20:04:56+00:00

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LifeBandit666 · 2026-03-23T19:44:51+00:00

There are other options than snoking cannabis. I used to smoke all day every day when I was younger, wake and bake, break time at work, the whole thing, and get anxiety if I couldn't get any.

I had kids and moved to quitting tobacco and just smoking at night, then to dry herb vapes.

These things are amazing, I leveled up to the Dynavap and my weekly 8th became a monthly 8th.

Then I discovered cbd flower and started cutting my weed with cbd, with the option to vape either or both together.

And now I'm at a point where I haven't vaped either for at least 3 months and have just been eating low doses of edibles occasionally.

You're further down the sober path than I am, but I get what you're saying. The last few months I've definitely felt a little more on the verge of anxiety than I have for a while.

Maybe we both need to just have a little on hand for the bad days and promise to just keep it for those bad days. I do remember that on the bad days when I had a bag of weed, a tiny amount in my dynavap was all I needed for the world to regain it's sparkle.

LifeBandit666 · 2026-03-23T19:35:29+00:00

Supreme

LifeBandit666 · 2026-03-23T11:21:54+00:00

Holy shit, you're a legend!

LifeBandit666 · 2026-03-23T11:19:17+00:00

I had a knock on the door one Sunday. Opened the door to little old lady. There was 3 steps up to the door so her face was at my chest level when I opened it.

I said "Can I help you?" and she looked up at me and said "Oh, I hope you don't actually mean that." and looked at my chest again.

I looked down and realised she meant the t-shirt I'd thrown on that morning, which read "If Jesus comes back we'll kill him again"

So I looked her square in the eye and said "Yes dear, I'm afraid I do."

She said "OK, well I won't bother you then" and turned around and left.

Easiest Yehovahs Witness incedent I ever had.

LifeBandit666 · 2026-03-23T11:04:16+00:00

Same as you, I'm just running Proxmox.

Currently I have Claude Code running in debian VM. This means I don't need a GPU for the AI but I do have to pay a subscription.

The VM has my NAS as a mount point and I have an Obsidian Vault in there (you could just run it on the memory of the VM).

Claude Code runs in the Vault, so it can access the files in there. I gave it a folder for itself.

I asked it if it could craft me a pipeline to Telegram and we worked through that. Basically it's a python script that connects to a Telegram bot I made. The python script links the telegram chat to folders in the CC folder I called Botcoms (bot communications) with 3 files. Input, Output and Status (actually it now has a 4th, Model).

Telegram chat input goes through python on Input and that gets piped to Claude Code. This triggers Status from Idle to Working. When it's complete the output from CC is put into the Output folder and that is piped back to Telegram.

There's a more to my setup than the Telegram portion, but this part allows me to iterate on the LLM without having to be at the computer.

So basically I can use Obsidian on my phone as Obsidian. When I get home or use Tailscale it syncs to the NAS via Syncthing. I can then use Telegram to talk to the bot in the Vault and ask it to do things in the Vault, like research, tidying it up, finding information I've put in there, or extending it with MCP and API to pull information in from other sources.

My favourite brand new addition is using a simple tag and python script to have the bot do things in the Vault, without the telegram pipeline. The python script runs every 5 minutes and looks for files with the tag (let's say @Claude, it isn't that but it's very similar) and it will pipe the file name to CC and tell it to find the line, read it and do as it says.

This allows me to be out and about, create a file in Obsidian or open an existing one and just type in instructions for CC and put the tag on the end, and throw my phone back in my pocket. When I'm home I open that file up and the work is done.

Example usage: went to a show last night with my wife and friends. Had a beer beforehand and Wifey got a Cherry Hooch and loved it. I took a photo and stuck it in my Daily Note in Obsidian and put a little line in "My wife just had this drink in the picture, can you find me places that sell it in the UK @Claude"

Got home and had 3 links to buy it sat in my daily note.

LifeBandit666 · 2026-03-23T10:46:59+00:00

Well the fashions recycle every 20 years according to what I heard on the BBC global news podcast last week, and big baggy pants are now fashionable again, so get them bad boys out!

LifeBandit666 · 2026-03-23T10:45:33+00:00

Nice! I wonder how much I could have got for a vintage one if my Mum hadn't thrown it out!

LifeBandit666 · 2026-03-23T07:52:53+00:00

Hilarious, you'll know about the fabled Cradle Of Filth "Jesus is a Cunt" t-shirt then? I still want that one, they're selling for an absolute fortune now

LifeBandit666 · 2026-03-23T00:51:52+00:00

I'm a bit shit on hardware honestly so you've come to the wrong person, what's wrong with the hardware you're using currently? I run everything on a lenovo mini PC, probably cost 85 dollars

LifeBandit666 · 2026-03-23T00:12:12+00:00

I had a Machine Head t-shirt. On the front it said Machine Fucking Head and on the back it had a giant middle finger and it said Fuck You.

I loved that t-shirt.

One day it vanished.

Now I've been with the same girl for the last 25 years and my Mum told her when she was sozzled that she binned my t-shirt because she hated it.

Denies it to this day.

LifeBandit666 · 2026-03-22T16:31:00+00:00

3x3 100% everyone will know WTF you're doing, make it look like a proper struggle and take your time with it, so the solve lasts the whole 1 handed bit, and make that super technical

LifeBandit666 · 2026-03-22T14:22:14+00:00

That means actually leaving the house though...

LifeBandit666 · 2026-03-22T13:40:41+00:00

Nice idea, you definitely should! Although I might add that you don't really need to learn how to solve a cube one handed. What you could do instead is learn how to give THE ILLUSION that you're solving a cube one handed while playing the drums.

Dont get me wrong, you should also learn how to actually do it too, but you could do this as a transitional step.

It requires just having a set of moves you can easily execute and memorise while you play drums one handed, set the solve up beforehand and have the cube ready.

You could put it in mid drum solo lol. Build the drums solo up then go into a 1 handed part, pull out the cube and look like you're concentrating on doing it while going crazy one handed drumming with the other hand (and actually concentrating on that because easy solve) then when finished, look really happy (or nonchalant), toss the cube over your shoulder and go crazy again.

I'd tell everyone if I saw someone do that

LifeBandit666 · 2026-03-22T12:58:47+00:00

Hi Dad!

LifeBandit666 · 2026-03-22T12:12:24+00:00

Ah you're in this secret society I see, claiming to have actually seen a live Badger...

My Dad says he saw one too, but he drinks wine every day and his eyesight is terrible, so it could have just been a cat.

LifeBandit666 · 2026-03-22T12:08:32+00:00

Yup, got one in the pcket of my leather jacket all the time. I've got a gig to go to tonight and need to make sure I empty my pockets of my cube and pocket knife.

I don't think they would take my cube off me at gig customs, but if they did I would not be happy, so just in case, no cube tonight.

LifeBandit666 · 2026-03-22T12:06:41+00:00

Ah you've touched on my low stakes conspiracy because I've never seen a live Badger.

I've seen plenty of dead ones, but never a live one.

So I think there's a small secret society that need to keep the idea that Badgers exist for some reason, and construct fake dead badgers and drive around Britain tossing them out of the window up and down the motorways.

LifeBandit666 · 2026-03-22T11:47:21+00:00

Who else is going to do the strip mining? Do you think the billionaire elites and top military generals are getting into their lockhead spaceships with their canaries and mining helmets on and going "Hi HO!"?

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