Surprising things I learned putting together a Home Brain

So, I&rsquo;m trying to put together something I call a &ldquo;Home Brain&rdquo;, a conversational system I can interact with that not only allows me to control IoT devices in my home, but also contains personal knowledge I can access, and also more general knowledge (think wikipedia), and yet all this functionality should run locally, with no cloud services required. I initially started down this…