Previously known as HomeMind PRO. See the v2.0.0 changelog for migration notes.
An AI assistant for Home Assistant that remembers. One-click install, works with your voice, learns your home.
Tell it once — "100 ppm is normal for my NOx sensor", "bedroom lights should go to 30% in the evening", "call the WLED strip 'main kitchen light'" — and it remembers next time. No re-teaching every conversation.
- Persistent memory — preferences, routines, sensor baselines, device nicknames. Stays across restarts.
- Voice control through HA Assist — ask in plain language, control anything.
- Learns your home — reads your floor plan, areas, and device capabilities so it always knows which room a light is in.
- Your choice of brain — use Nives Cloud (recommended, fully supported) or BYOK with your own API key (advanced; for full local/custom-model setups, see home-mind, the open-source project this add-on grew out of).
- Privacy-respecting — memories live on your HA machine, never leave your network.
- In Home Assistant: Settings → Add-ons → Add-on Store → ⋮ → Repositories
- Add this URL:
https://github.com/hoornet/nives - Install Nives from the store
- Start it, open the Configuration tab, pick a mode (see below), save, restart
The add-on will auto-register as a conversation agent — pick it in Settings → Voice assistants as your conversation agent and you're done.
Nives ships with two modes. Pick one in the add-on's Configuration tab.
| Mode | Who it's for | Caveats |
|---|---|---|
| Cloud | You want a curated, supported setup | Sign up at nives.house, paste the key we send you. We pick the model, we test it, we support it. |
| BYOK | You're comfortable picking models and debugging | Best-effort. Your model must support function-calling. Memory extraction quality varies by model. For deeper local/Ollama setups, use home-mind OSS — it's purpose-built for that. |
Both modes use the same on-device server and memory; only the LLM endpoint differs. Cloud is curated and tested. BYOK quality depends entirely on the model you pick.
Full setup guides, configuration reference, and troubleshooting live in the add-on's Documentation tab (or nives/DOCS.md on GitHub).
- home-mind — the open-source server this add-on grew from (AGPL-3.0). Independent project; run it yourself if you prefer the OSS path.
- nives.house — the Nives Cloud service (optional).
- Bug reports / feature requests: open an issue
- Cloud subscription questions: nives.house
AGPL-3.0 — see LICENSE.