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Part 2 — People & Rooms

Goal: Teach Kenzy about who's talking and expand her presence into all your rooms.

Note: Make sure you completed the prerequisites from Part 1 first.

1. Teach her who's who

Enroll each household member's voice — from the dashboard is easiest:

  1. People tab → + Add person → their name.
  2. On their card, Enroll voice, pick the room they're standing in.
  3. Kenzy reads a few sentences aloud at that room's speaker; they repeat each one. Done — the voice is linked to the person automatically.

✓ Checkpoint

Their card now shows voice · 5 samples. Have them say "hey Kenzie, what time is it?" — the dashboard's Activity tab shows the request with their name on it.

Enrolling again later (different day, different distance) adds samples and makes recognition more reliable. The full story — including the voice-command and CLI paths — is in Speaker Enrollment.

2. Try out Memory

Recognition is what makes memory personal. Have someone enrolled try:

"Hey Kenzie… remember that my locker code is 4321"

"Hey Kenzie… what do you know about my locker?"

Private facts are only ever spoken back to their owner — someone else asking gets nothing. "Everyone should know…" stores a fact the whole house can ask for. The complete guide (tiers, forgetting, the privacy tools) is Memory.

If you have more than one device...

...then you need to configure each device node to work with the server instance created in Part 1.

3. Adding additional room nodes

A room node is a small device whose only job is to listen and speak — an Orange Pi Zero 3 / 2W or Raspberry Pi 3/4/5 with a USB speakerphone. The thinking still happens on your server.

  1. Set up the board with its standard OS (Raspberry Pi OS Lite is fine), connected to the same network.
  2. In the dashboard, go to Settings → Node provisioning and copy the join token.

  3. On the new device, run:

    curl -fsSL https://kenzy.ai/install.sh | bash -s -- --profile node --token PASTE_TOKEN_HERE

That's the whole install. The node finds your server on the network by itself, connects with the token, and pulls all its settings from the server — there's nothing to configure on the device.

✓ Checkpoint

Within a minute the new node appears as a card in the dashboard's fleet view. Open its Configure page to name its room, then run Set up / calibrate audio… to pick its microphone and tune it — all from your browser. Then walk over and say "hey Kenzie."

Repeat for as many rooms as you like. With more than one room you can try:

"Hey Kenzie… tell everyone dinner's ready" (speaks in every room)

"Hey Kenzie… call the living room" (live intercom — the other room says "yes" to accept)

If you run Home Assistant, Continue to Part 3 — Home Assistant Basics.