Introducing Homeway Sage — your free, private, and intelligent Home Assistant Assist add-on! Sage is powered by cutting-edge AI models from OpenAI, DeepSeek, Google, Azure, Amazon, and Anthropic to build a lifelike assistant experience. Sage can be used from the Home Assistant Assist tool on the dashboard or new voice devices like Home Assistant Voice!
Sage’s powerful services create a lifelike personal assistant:
- Free Assist Chat – Sage uses OpenAI’s ChatGPT 4, DeekSeek’s R1, Anthropic’s Claude, and Google Gemini to power your chat Home Assistant Assist or Home Assistantnant Voice. Our intelligent LLM chat includes the ability to search the web, look up weather info, get real-time sports scores, and even create chat memories to customize your Assistant!
- Free Text-To-Speech – Sage uses the latest multilingual speech models from OpenAI, Google, Azure, AWS, and more. These models bring your Home Assistant Voice to life with lifelike speech synthesis. The best part—you can choose from over 50 voices!
- Free Speech-To-Text – Enables your Home Assistant Voice satellite to listen to you using a low-latency, multilanguage speech-to-text model.
Homeway is committed to your privacy, and Sage is no exception. We have built Sage in the most privacy forward way possible. We send the minimal amount of anonymized data required to each AI provider and immediately delete the data when the processing is done. See our privacy policy for complete details. Homeway is 100% community-supported, so if you want to help, consider becoming a supporter!
Sage is built on our worldwide server network using a secure real-time streaming protocol, which enables all of Sage’s services to be extremely fast. We hyper-optimized our server logic to maintain connections with OpenAI, Azure, and Amazon AWS to ensure the lowest latency possible. You have to try it to believe it!
Setup Sage Now – In 30 Seconds
Install the Homeway Add-on for Home Assistant
Installing the Homeway add-on for Home Assistant takes about 20 seconds and requires no technical knowledge. If you can access your Home Assistant dashboard, you can install the add-on.
Add The Sage Integration In Home Assistant
Once Homeway is installed and connected to your account, Home Assistant will discover Sage’s Wyoming integration. To enable it:
- Open Home Assistant in your web browser.
- Go to the Home Assistant settings.
- Select “Devices & services”
- Find the box in “Discovered” for Homeway Sage.
- Click the “ADD” button.
If you don’t have a Wyoming box in your Discovered section, follow this guide to manually set up the integration.
Setup Your Home Assistant Assist & Home Assistant Voice
Now that the Homeway Assistant integration is ready, head to the Home Assistant Voice Assistant settings to configure it.
- Open Home Assistant in your web browser.
- Go to the Home Assistant settings.
- Select “Voice assistants”
- Click the “+ ADD ASSISTANT” button.
- For “Configuration”
- Name – Anything you want it to be, we suggest “Homeway” or “Sage.”
- Set your preferred language.
- For “Conversation agent”
- Select “Homeway Sage”
- Be sure to enable “Prefer handling commands locally.” This will allow the built-in Home Assistant model to handle actions relating to your smart home devices and pass everything else off to Sage.
- For “Speech-to-text”
- Select “Homeway Sage”
- Set the language you want to speak in.
- For “Text-to-speech”
- Select “Homeway Sage”
- Set the language you want to speak in. Most voices support multiple languages and can even switch in real time!
- Select a speaker voice.
- Homeway Sage offers over 25 voice models from OpenAI, Google, Azure, and more. Try different voices to see which you like best!
- When you’re done, select “CREATE” at the bottom to make the new assistant profile.
- When the profile pop-up closes, locate the assistant profile you created, click the three vertical dot menu, and then select “Set as preferred.”
You did it! You now have a free, powerful, intelligent OpenAI ChatGPT or Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet assistant!
Setup Your Home Assistant Voice Device
If you have a Home Assistant Voice device (the standalone “Alexa-like device”), make sure it’s configured to use your Homeway Sage assistant profile. To do so, look in your Home Assistant devices list for “Home Assistant Voice” and click it to see its settings. In the “configuration” box, ensure that “Assistant” is set to your Homeway Sage profile.
What Will You Try First?
Now that you have Sage set up… try it! Go to any Home Assistant dashboard and open Assist by selecting the chat icon at the top right. You can type text messages to Sage or use your voice. Be sure to try:
- What’s the weather forecast for today?
- Turn on the Kitchen lights.
- Can you remember to call me <your name>?
- What’s happening in my local news?
- Remind me in 1 hour to take out the trash.
Remember that Sage is extremely powerful and can:
- Create memories about you and how you want to interact with Sage. Sage will make memories on its own, but you can also explicitly ask it to make memories, list its current memories, or tell Sage to delete memories.
- Control or report information from devices you have set up in Home Assistant.
- Search the web for facts, breaking news, business details, and more.
- Get live weather conditions and future weather forecasts for your local area.
- Get live sports scores and stats or report information about past games.
- Access internet webpages to gather information.
The only limit is your imagination; Sage is standing by and ready to help!
It’s A Community Effort
We are so excited to welcome Sage to the Home Assistant community, but we need your help! We would love to hear feedback on your experience or ideas for Sage. Homeway is a community-driven project, so we need you, the community, to help us!
The best way to join our community and share feedback is via our Discord community.
Explore Homeway
Now that you have Homeway setup, you can also take advantage of the other amazing free features Homeway offers!
- Free & secure remote access.
- Alexa and Google Assistant integrations.
- Remote access for the official Home Assistant iPhone and Android apps.
- Local access to web-based services like Node-RED, Unraid, AdGuard, PiHole, and more!
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