I’m in the beginning stages of trying to set up the ultimate personal assistant. I’ve been messing around with Home Assistant for a while and recently started messing around with n8n.

I love the simplicity and full fledged capability of setting up an assistant who can literally schedule appointments, send emails, parse through journal entries, etc in n8n.

However, if I wanted to make a self-hosted assistant the default digital assistant on my android phone, my understanding is that the easiest way to do that is with the Home Assistant app. And my Ollama home assistant is great, so this is fine.

I’m trying to figure out a way to kinda "marry" the two solutions. I want my assistant to be able to read / send emails, see / schedule appointments, see my journal entries and files, etc like I’ve been able to set up in n8n, but I’d also like it to have access to my smart home and be the default assistant on my android phone.

I’m assuming I can accomplish most of what I can do in n8n within Home Assistant alone, but maybe just not as easily. I’m just very much a noob on both platforms right now, haha. I’m just curious as to if any of you have approached making the ultimate assistant that and how you’ve done it?