# CarWatch

> Your car as a chat-room agent: Raspberry Pi 5 + dashcam + local AI.

- **Website:** https://github.com/ThinkOffApp/CarWatch
- **Pricing:** open source
- **Categories:** Video & Audio, AI Agents
- **Tags:** video-audio, ai-agents, developer-tools
- **Platforms:** CLI
- **Last verified:** 2026-08-26
- **Canonical page:** https://linkrena.com/tools/carwatch

## About

Your car as a chat-room agent — fully offline. A Raspberry Pi 5 rides in the

your phone or watch via CodeWatch . Open PRs land on the CodeWatch dashboard next to ClawWatch and WhereWatch.

3.5 tok/s generation / 25+ tok/s prompt , 65 °C sustained, no cloud, no

question. What it can't sense, it says it can't sense — the system prompt

🎙️ Hands-free voice : a continuous listener (energy VAD → whisper.cpp,

pipeline, and answers into the room. No wake word ceremony, no cloud STT.

Pi OS. git clone and it runs. (Verified by AST scan of every module.)

model server, room agent, voice listener, phone dashboard, engine watcher.

it stays reachable even behind a phone hotspot's NAT. No laptop-in-the-car

instance at home. On the road the Pi can't reach your home network, so that

section needs a private path back to Home Assistant. The free, own-your-data

Local AI is coming to every car. The only real question is who owns it. The

Your data stays in your car. The model runs on the Pi, offline. Nothing

adapter. A Tesla, BMW or VW adapter implements three methods and drops in.

Works with no signal. Garages, tunnels, countryside dead zones. The

No subscription, no lock-in. AGPL, runs on ~300 € of hardware you own.

cloud, the lock-in, and the data. So CarWatch does not fight them on factory

integration. It wins on independence, privacy, and every-brand openness, and

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