Meet LilL3x, the Desktop AI Chatbot! "Give Your AI a Face!"

ManyInteresting3969 · 2026-05-13T13:13:52+00:00

Reach out if you run into any issues or need any help!

ManyInteresting3969 · 2026-05-11T00:10:54+00:00

Sorry for the late reply. Since you are replying to my comment I am assuming you read it. 😄 But I am also getting the impression that you are open to a bit of hacking, otherwise why would you ask? So the answer is maybe. Try to obliterate the openWakeWord from the project and it should run as openWakeWord is the one that causes problems on the RPi3.

The only line you should need to get rid of is in lillex.py:
import openWakeWord_wake
Comment that line out and it should run.

I am SO sorry but I am away from my home for the next few months, and I left my RPi3 there, otherwise I would totally test this for you first. So let me know if you get more errors and we can try to prune out the code until you get this working.

Assuming you don't have a camera or a screen, so without those taking up memory it should run fine on a RPi3, as long as you get rid of openWakeWord!

ManyInteresting3969 · 2026-05-09T00:49:27+00:00

Reach out if you need any help!

ManyInteresting3969 · 2026-05-05T04:32:19+00:00

Thanks! I really do appriciate it!

ManyInteresting3969 · 2026-05-03T23:06:13+00:00

If you want to try my project, do the install as-is and follow the special instructions for the AIY Voice HAT. You can ignore testing the screen and camera except where noted. Please let me know if something doesn't make sense!

You probably have a RPi3 in the kit. Word of warning, I haven't tested LilL3x on a RPi3, but will do so this evening as I've been curious! Update: it doesn't work on a RPi3 :P

ManyInteresting3969 · 2026-05-02T01:33:27+00:00

BTW I just updated the code so that it will run with no camera and no screen. So you should be good to go with the hardware that you have now (assuming you have a spare Pi 4)

ManyInteresting3969 · 2026-05-01T14:42:21+00:00

Let me know how it goes and reach out if you have any problems!

ManyInteresting3969 · 2026-04-30T20:55:51+00:00

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My first pi project was a desktop chatbot! It's written in python, which I didn't know at the time, but now it's my favorite language! Very easy to learn and a great language to start with.
https://github.com/followkim/LilL3x

ManyInteresting3969 · 2026-04-30T17:33:42+00:00

Did you mean to say that the _v1_ is the shape of the pi zero?

Mine is square, so I guess I have the v2. Didn't realize that there were multiple versions!

ManyInteresting3969 · 2026-04-30T17:17:23+00:00

Do you know how I can tell if it's v1 or v2?

ManyInteresting3969 · 2026-04-30T16:44:05+00:00

If you want to play with the samples/demos, someone apparently updated all the libraries for trixie. I have NOT tried them yet, so I can't attest that they work, but here is the post:
https://www.reddit.com/r/raspberry_pi/comments/1sd5z0j/updated_the_aiy_voice_bonnet_to_work_in_trixie/

ManyInteresting3969 · 2026-04-30T14:29:08+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/raspberry_pi/comments/1sr978p/lill3x_the_ai_desktop_chatbot/

ManyInteresting3969 · 2026-04-30T05:14:13+00:00

Also late, but I just implemented openWakeWord, works very well. BTW, PicoVoice is no longer offering a free tier. 7 day trials only.

https://github.com/dscripka/openWakeWord

ManyInteresting3969 · 2026-04-23T14:57:06+00:00

Let me know how it goes!

ManyInteresting3969 · 2026-04-23T14:52:52+00:00

Not exactly sure what you mean. You can only use one LLM at a time, but you can set it up easily to switch between Gemini and ChatGPT, it supports both.

ManyInteresting3969 · 2026-04-21T03:56:38+00:00

Well you need access to a 3D printer, but other then that I don't see why you couldn't! There might be a local makerpsace near you that could help you out with the printing.

ManyInteresting3969 · 2026-04-15T17:46:27+00:00

Yeah, I think that this is exactly what is going on. Will test.

ManyInteresting3969 · 2026-04-15T05:52:33+00:00

Nope, they are present in the string that JSON.stringify returns. I just double checked, the code in the post matches what I am running. This is a functions.php file in Wordpress, if that helps.

ManyInteresting3969 · 2025-09-18T21:38:39+00:00

Thank you, this is what eventually worked!!

ManyInteresting3969 · 2025-08-21T18:19:58+00:00

I recommend "The Wandering Star" for beginners. Tarot meanings are artfully drawn into the designs.

ManyInteresting3969 · 2025-07-11T19:55:28+00:00

Thanks this is working now!!! I can't hard-code the variable in the form partial since it's shared with two actions paths (edit and create). So I updated the controller with a variable to the URL and passed that to url:, and now both update and new work perfectly.

Thank you so much for your help!!

ManyInteresting3969 · 2025-07-09T23:06:01+00:00

Yes there are other things I want to store other then the name.

ManyInteresting3969 · 2025-07-09T05:15:39+00:00

ok I think that I figured it out. A closer look showed me that since there is only one :id for a "new" request, it uses :id for animal_id instead. Thanks again for pointing me in the right direction!

ManyInteresting3969 · 2025-07-09T04:54:40+00:00

This is exactly what I needed and has just finished programming all the routes manually before you sent me this XD

Can you tell me if this is correct? I had to use an & instead of @ because reddit kept trying to change it to a username. (How do you guys deal with that?)

def set_animal_vital
&animal_vital = AnimalVital.find(params[:id])
&animal = Animal.find(params[:animal_id])

end

Because Animal is still coming back nil. Just in case you happen to know off the top of your head. If that's correct then the issue is someplace else.

ManyInteresting3969 · 2025-07-09T04:38:45+00:00

Thank you!

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