My wish is to have the equivalent of Google home hub running locally.

Really my only use cases are:

* glancing at the screen to see the weather

* Asking it to turn on or off or change colour of Hue lights

* Timers for cooking

I've since unplugged my google box because I felt the sacrifice of privacy with an always listening box wasn't worth it.

At the end of the day the functionality I use isn't that complex and even basic voice recognition I'm sure doesn't require the internet.

So I hope that there will be or there is a platform I'm not aware of that runs it locally.

Certainly Webthings is answering a good chunk of the question.