https://video.elfhosted.com/videos/watch/48f27f5f-126c-4be1-971e-aabb8c01809e An AI agent at home: Uncle Darren sets up an always-on assistant on a little computer in the study, and the first morning brief lands. Part two of The Always-On Assistant. Uncle Darren sets up an AI agent at home: a little computer in the study, running round the clock, linked to Robin's messages, with Darren's own API key plugged in for now. Robin tells it the family's week once: kit on Tuesdays, bins on Wednesdays, Nana at ten on Thursday. At seven the next morning, the first morning brief lands. Tess's kit is by the door, washed, and Nana gets her call before she's had her tea. It's a lovely build, and an always-on AI agent is a brilliant thing to tinker with on a home server. Then Darren goes home, and the box, the key and the updates are Robin's to keep. The Always-On Assistant is a short animated saga from ElfHosted about one family's AI agent: from an overflowing family inbox to an agent on a little computer in the study, and on to an assistant that runs itself. Each part stands on its own; watch them in order in the playlist on our channel. When the family moves to ElfHosted, Sam, ElfHosted's AI helper, is Robin's sidekick: tuned on our apps and the way we run them, he safely reads your actual logs and proposes a fix, and nothing changes until you approve it. When Sam can't help, the ElfHosted team is on Discord around the clock, in a family-friendly, carefully moderated server. ElfHosted: https://elfhosted.com/?utm_source=peertube&utm_medium=video&utm_campaign=assistant-2-study Hermes docs: https://docs.elfhosted.com/app/hermes/?utm_source=peertube&utm_medium=video&utm_campaign=assistant-2-study Chapters 0:00 Intro 0:18 An AI agent at home 0:38 The first morning brief 0:54 Who looks after it now About ElfHosted: we run open-source apps for you, kept updated and looked after by elves, so you get the apps without the upkeep. [s]elf-hosting without [s]uffering. https://elfhosted.com?utm_source=peertube&utm_medium=video #AIAgent #FamilyLife #ElfHosted Mon, 05 Oct 2026 12:18:23 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://video.elfhosted.com https://video.elfhosted.com/lazy-static/avatars/0ad9ef41-d7cc-447f-b89c-24dcddbb6422.png https://video.elfhosted.com/videos/watch/48f27f5f-126c-4be1-971e-aabb8c01809e All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://video.elfhosted.com/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.