Your Own Private AI at Home? UGREEN Home Agent | Local AI, Security Cameras & Your Own LLM!

What the UGREEN HomeAgent does

The UGREEN HomeAgent HA 100 is designed as a central system for files, security cameras and artificial intelligence. UGOS Pro provides standard NAS functions, including shared files, photo and video storage, and backups. A surveillance centre manages connected cameras and recordings, while UGREEN’s Ulia voice assistant provides a way to ask questions about activity around the home.

The system is intended to bring storage, cameras, supported smart home devices, speakers and gallery home frames into one local ecosystem. It can also coordinate commands between supported devices. The key distinction is that recordings and AI processing can remain on hardware inside the home, rather than depending on a cloud service for everyday storage and analysis.

Hardware and storage

The HomeAgent uses an RK3588 processor, 16GB of LPDDR5 memory, 64GB of eMMC system storage and a separate AI accelerator. UGREEN rates its total AI performance at 26 TOPS. The unit has three SATA bays, with two intended for NAS storage and one dedicated to surveillance. There is also an M.2 NVMe slot, used in the video for AI models.

Connectivity includes a 2.5Gb Ethernet port, four Power over Ethernet camera ports sharing a 65W power budget, USB-C, two USB-A ports, an SD card slot and HDMI output up to 4K at 60Hz. The PoE camera ports are 100Mbps each, while the separate network connection is 2.5Gbps.

Local AI and camera searches

The most prominent feature is the ability to ask questions about recorded camera activity. Instead of manually reviewing hours of footage, the system can search and filter events involving people, pets, vehicles and packages. The video also demonstrates asking when a vehicle arrived and reviewing events such as a child crying or being put to bed.

The camera recordings can be continuously tagged, allowing the AI agent to answer questions about what happened and when. UGREEN also describes smart alerts for unusual activity, package arrivals and other recognised events. The usefulness of this feature depends on having cameras covering the areas that need monitoring, so following a pet across an entire property would require several cameras.

Photos, files and media

The HomeAgent can back up photos and music from an iPhone to local storage. Its photo tools include local people recognition and image recognition, allowing searches for subjects such as plants or horses once images have been processed. The video shows 2,116 items recognised for people at the time of testing.

Other applications include a file manager, a music library and Theater, a local media application for movies and television shows. Security recordings can also be saved into a separate folder for later access. The system includes tags and list or icon views for organising files.

Cameras, access and limitations

The cameras demonstrated are the UGREEN Sincere ID500 Pro indoor camera and OD600 Pro outdoor PoE camera. The indoor model is described as a 4K, 8-megapixel pan-and-tilt camera with dual-band Wi-Fi 6, starlight night vision and a physical privacy shutter. The outdoor model combines an 8-megapixel 4K overview camera with a 5-megapixel pan-and-tilt camera, up to nine-times hybrid zoom, IP66 weather resistance and PoE support.

The HomeAgent can work with a local language model identified in the video as Qwen or QN 3.5, with four billion parameters. A cloud model can also be connected through an OpenAI API, although that introduces API usage costs. Local processing can continue when the internet is unavailable, including surveillance recording, but remote access and push notifications still require an internet connection.

Local storage should not be treated as a complete backup. A failed drive or stolen HomeAgent could result in the loss of data, so important files may need another copy elsewhere.