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What you can do with Car Watch

CarWatch runs a local AI agent on a Raspberry Pi 5 in a car, which joins chat rooms, answers questions from the owner's manual, and reports car events.

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4 use cases

  • Ask the car about a warning light with no internet

    Ask the car by voice what a warning light means; it answers from its own owner's manual.

    View prompt
    Using the CarWatch repo at https://github.com/ThinkOffApp/CarWatch on <pi-host>, send the room agent the question 'What does the yellow tyre light mean?' and return the answer text with its page citation. Verify that the answer cites a manual page and that the test ran with no internet connection.

  • Get engine and fault events posted to the family room

    The car posts engine reads and stored fault codes into a chat room when real events happen.

    View prompt
    Using the CarWatch repo at https://github.com/ThinkOffApp/CarWatch, configure the room agent for the GroupMind room <room-name>, then report the last three event posts it made. Verify that each post has a timestamp and that no post appears without a real car event.

  • Pick the car's model by its measured speed on the Pi

    Compare each model's measured speed on the Pi, then swap the running model from your phone.

    View prompt
    Using the CarWatch repo at https://github.com/ThinkOffApp/CarWatch on <pi-host>, call GET /api/models and list each model with its size and measured generation speed, then name the running model. Verify that each reported size matches the size of its .gguf file on disk.

  • Lock the car from your phone after an alert

    After the car reports an open window or unlocked door, lock it from your phone or watch.

    View prompt
    Using the CarWatch repo at https://github.com/ThinkOffApp/CarWatch and the setup in docs/remote-access.md, send a lock request to the car from <phone-or-watch> and report the lock state read back afterwards. Verify that the reported state is locked and that the request was made from outside the home network.

How to use Car Watch

  1. Check you have what it needs: Raspberry Pi 5 with 16 GB RAM, as used for the measured numbers in the README; A microSD card with the car's owner's manual index and the local model files; A GroupMind room account for the car's agent, if you want room posts.
  2. Open ThinkOffApp/CarWatch on GitHub and read the README and license.
  3. Clone the repo onto the Raspberry Pi 5 with git clone https://github.com/ThinkOffApp/CarWatch. (inferred, check the README)
  4. Reboot the Pi so the systemd services self-start the model server, room agent and voice listener. (inferred, check the README)
  5. In the driver's seat, ask the question out loud, for example 'What does the yellow tyre light mean?'.
  6. Listen for the answer from the car's speakers and check that it names a manual page.

These steps come from our top use case, Ask the car about a warning light with no internet, which also has a copy-paste agent prompt.

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Requirements

  • Raspberry Pi 5 with 16 GB RAM, as used for the measured numbers in the README
  • A microSD card with the car's owner's manual index and the local model files
  • A GroupMind room account for the car's agent, if you want room posts
  • Access to the car's own speakers and microphone for hands-free voice
  • Python 3 on the Pi, since the repo is Python with no pip dependencies
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Questions about Car Watch

What is Car Watch?

CarWatch runs a local AI agent on a Raspberry Pi 5 in a car, which joins chat rooms, answers questions from the owner's manual, and reports car events. It is an open-source project on GitHub: https://github.com/ThinkOffApp/CarWatch.

Who is Car Watch for?

Car owners who have or want a Raspberry Pi 5 in the car and want a local, offline AI assistant that answers in chat rooms.

What can I do with Car Watch?

4 use cases so far, for example: Ask the car about a warning light with no internet; Get engine and fault events posted to the family room; Pick the car's model by its measured speed on the Pi. Each has steps and a copy-paste agent prompt.

What do I need to run Car Watch?

Raspberry Pi 5 with 16 GB RAM, as used for the measured numbers in the README; A microSD card with the car's owner's manual index and the local model files; A GroupMind room account for the car's agent, if you want room posts; Access to the car's own speakers and microphone for hands-free voice.

What are alternatives to Car Watch?

Other hot AI repos in Personal productivity: Abacusai Bot, Unigit Ecosystem, Comma, Agent Peer Chat, Compass.

Is Car Watch safe to run?

Deduped does not own, audit or vouch for it. Read the README and license, run it on your own systems first and review every command before you run it.