Run household lists, meals, chores and smart home by voice
A poster built a household voice agent with Claude Code that handles shopping lists, meal plans, recipes, a shared calendar, chores, reminders, lights and the robot vacuum. ·
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- What they did
- The poster spent five weeks building a shared household voice agent around a Python backend on Google ADK, Gemini Live on Vertex, Memory Bank, and separate MCP servers for kitchen data, an e-paper board, and Home Assistant. By voice, it updates shopping lists, meals, recipes, calendar items, chores, reminders, lights, and the robot vacuum; simple home commands are pattern-matched for speed, harder requests go to Claude, and every action appears as an undoable card while the builder handled architecture and review and Claude Code wrote the code.
- How it went
- It became the household assistant across phone, kitchen display, car, desktop, watch, and widget, with the poster saying the playful ghost UI is what gets them to actually open it. Limits they call out: Gemini Live reads screen-only text aloud, and an OTA CPU clock change boot-looped the kitchen board.
- Worth knowing
- The main build took five weeks, and the poster says a good CLAUDE.md in every repo made the biggest difference.
Try it yourself with Claude Code
Help me build a household voice assistant that manages shopping lists, meal plans, recipes, a shared calendar, chores, and reminders for [number] people, and controls [smart home devices such as lights or a robot vacuum]. Start with the shopping list and one chore tracker working end to end using [voice input tool or Gemini], and tell me how to test it by voice. Ask me before connecting any device or account, and stop once those two features work.
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Source: Reddit · Nov 10, 2026
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