CarWatch - Your car as a chat-room agent
Show HN: I made a Raspberry with Qwen my local car AI
CarWatch turns your car into a fully offline chat-room agent using a Raspberry Pi 5 and a local 35B-parameter AI model. It joins your GroupMind rooms, answers questions from your car's owner's manual with page citations, and provides hands-free voice interaction. It monitors engine data via OBD, pulls dashcam clips, and offers a phone dashboard for remote control. With self-updates and a dial-out tunnel, it stays reachable anywhere. Built for privacy, it operates without cloud or subscription, making your car a smart, connected companion.
Local is the product; online is the enrichment. The car must be fully useful with zero connectivity, because cars live in garages, tunnels and countryside dead zones.