Built on Home Assistant, running on your hardware, talking to you through Telegram. No cloud dependency. No monthly bills. No compromises.
what you get
Everything a commercial system offers — minus the subscription, the data collection, and the fine print.
Your footage, your storage
Video never leaves your network. No cloud upload, no third-party access, no surprises.
Works without internet
Router goes down, automations keep running. Motion detection, alarms, lights — all local.
Alerts that mean something
A snapshot, the context, and nothing else. Not a wall of notifications you learn to ignore.
No lock-in
Open platforms throughout. Your config is documented and exportable. You own it.
The home speaks
Multiroom audio across every speaker. Alerts, deliveries, announcements — out loud, in the room.
Built with personality
Because security infrastructure doesn't have to feel sterile. This one has character.
daily utility
Not just an alarm that trips at 3am. An active layer across your home, all the time.
📹 Security & Cameras
Powered by Frigate — AI object detection running locally. When something moves, you get a message with a snapshot before you've thought to check.
📍 Presence Awareness
The system tracks who's home, not just whether anyone is. Alarm behavior, messages, and lighting all respond to the actual situation.
📦 Packages & Mail
Tracks Amazon, eBay, Etsy. Each person in the house gets their own feed — no mix-ups.
🌤 Weather & More
Daily briefing with a live photo from your outdoor camera. Rain warnings before you leave the house.
📄 Documents & Scans
Got a physical scanner? Scanned docs route directly to the right person via Telegram. No file sharing, no email.
beyond the basics
Off-the-shelf systems don't have these. Neither does most custom work.
audio layer
The Home Has a Voice
Every alert plays out loud — not just a push notification you'll swipe away.
Arm and disarm sounds, delivery confirmations, motion end chimes, time announcements.
Randomized audio pools mean it never sounds mechanical.
One command mutes everything without disabling Telegram notifications. Smart mute remembers your volume when it comes back.
voice relay
Yaper!
Send a voice message to the bot. It plays through every speaker in the house.
The fastest intercom you've ever had. No app to open, no "hey" to yell. Just record and send. History is logged per person, with playback and download from the panel.
ambient layer
The House Keeps Score
The system tracks activity through the home — commands, remotes, voice messages — and develops a sense of how things are going. Not a dashboard. More like a space that pays attention.
Moon phase, who's home, how the week's been going — it all feeds into the tone of responses and occasional perks. You don't manage it. It just runs.
household coordination
🌙 Sleep Mode
One command shuts everything down gracefully. Lights dim, hallways go into slow breathing loops, bathroom drops to 1% nightlight, sounds stop. Wake up and it all restores. Tap a remote in any room for a timed override without breaking the sleep state.
📺 TV Mode
TV starts playing Plex or YouTube — lights dim on their own. Pause or finish — lights restore. No scenes to set, no voice commands. Toggle it on or off from Telegram if you want manual control.
🚿 Bathroom Panel
/bathroom asks whoever's home if they need it. They reply — the system holds the status and sends a "done" when they leave. Built for houses where people actually talk to each other, just not always in time.
🎛 Physical Remotes
ZHA-paired buttons in every room. One tap toggles lights. Double tap cycles brightness. Hold cycles through modes — daylight, warm, amber, or the cycling color mode. Sleep-aware: in sleep mode they activate a timed override instead of full lighting.
the brain
CVBot is what ties the whole system together. It routes your commands, delivers alerts, controls cameras, manages audio — and keeps a personality while doing it.
It runs as a custom Home Assistant component with its own engine — not a stack of automations pretending to be a bot.
customization
The logic is completely separate from the personality. You can swap out the voice, the text library, the stickers, the visual identity — even the species — without touching a single automation.
Add new responses, new moods, new audio packs over time. The character evolves without a rebuild.
who it's for
The same stack scales from a studio apartment to a warehouse floor.
Homes & apartments
Single resident or full house. Security, presence, lighting, mail, audio — everything talking to each other.
Offices
Announcements, room scheduling, access alerts, staff notifications through whatever chat platform you use.
Warehouses
Event parsing, audio cues across multiple zones, workstation presence tracking, shift briefings.
Themed spaces & escape rooms
Audio triggers, reactive lighting, story-driven messages on cue. Yes, we've thought about this.
tiers
Pricing is project-based after the design brief. You pay for time, not a license.
Starter
Basic
Most popular
Full stack
Custom
Tailored
No subscriptions from me. Ever.
how it works
01
Discovery
Email. Goals, constraints, existing gear.
02
Design brief
Topology, privacy settings, full automation plan.
03
Build
HA setup, cameras, notifications, tests.
04
Handoff
Docs, cheat sheet, quick walkthrough.
05
Support
Pay per issue. No retainers.
Time-based billing after the design brief. No surprise quotes.
FAQ
I'll spec it, build it, and hand it off clean. No recurring fees, no vendor dependency, no compromises.
Subject: "Coyote me."