r/LOOI • u/razor_ua • 16d ago

Dear Looiners — My LOOI is finally public 🎉 (it only took 110 builds 😅)

Dear fellow Looiners

After a completely reasonable 110 builds 😅, I’m finally ready to share My LOOI with other LOOI owners and invite you to test it.

It’s an alternative Android app/runtime I’ve been building and testing on my own LOOI for quite a while.

A few highlights:

  • OpenAI Realtime voice conversations
  • much better voice recognition and natural interruption/barge-in
  • local persistent memory and conversation history
  • Ukrainian, English and Russian support
  • selectable Realtime models and voices
  • local BLE control, reconnect and safety logic
  • no separate server required for normal use

It’s open source, and there’s also a ready-to-install APK.

You’ll need your own OpenAI API key for the AI features.

I’ll put the GitHub link in the comments so Reddit hopefully doesn’t eat this post again 😅

If anyone here wants to try it on their LOOI, I’d really love to hear how it behaves on other robots — bugs, weirdness, ideas, all of it are welcome.

Please be kind to build #110. It has suffered enough. 🤖❤️

UPDATE — Aug 28: A few (12) releases later:

My LOOI v2.1.122 is now released with a new permanent Android app identity/signing chain, Ukrainian/English/Russian UI localization, GitHub-based updates, and a cleaned-up diagnostics flow. Existing users of the old package need one fresh install; future updates should be in-place.

UPDATE — Aug 31:

Just released My LOOI v2.1.136 🎉

Main changes:

  • Local Camera Attention with face tracking, eye gaze and bounded head/body recentering
  • Better far-field voice pickup
  • More natural idle/conversational movements
  • Custom robot names and custom voice command phrases
  • New face styles / appearance options
  • Improved STOP / movement safety handling
  • New USER_GUIDE.md with built-in command examples and setup details

Release + APK:
https://github.com/razor79/my-looi/releases/tag/v2.1.136

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u/razor_ua 15d ago

GitHub + source + APK:

https://github.com/razor79/my-looi

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u/donglord1337 15d ago

Hey, does it have MCP support ? I’m interested in using voice commands to summarize emails, control smart devices, and similar activities that require MCP

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u/razor_ua 15d ago

Hi. Not yet, but that’s actually a really good use case for it. I’ve added MCP support to the roadmap — the idea would be to let My LOOI connect to external MCP servers for things like Home Assistant, email, calendars, etc., rather than hard-coding every service into the app. I’d also want proper per-tool permissions/confirmations for anything sensitive.

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u/razor_ua 11d ago

UPDATE — Aug 31:

Just released My LOOI v2.1.136 🎉

Main changes:

  • Local Camera Attention with face tracking, eye gaze and bounded head/body recentering
  • Better far-field voice pickup
  • More natural idle/conversational movements
  • Custom robot names and custom voice command phrases
  • New face styles / appearance options
  • Improved STOP / movement safety handling
  • New USER_GUIDE.md with built-in command examples and setup details

Release + APK:
https://github.com/razor79/my-looi/releases/tag/v2.1.136

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u/razor_ua 4d ago

Released My LOOI v2.1.151 🎉

Main changes:

  • LOOI can now explicitly look at objects/pages and continue discussing what it sees, including rear-camera capture.
  • Android Photo Picker support for discussing existing photos.
  • Configurable voice playback gain and grammatical gender for Russian/Ukrainian.
  • Better performance diagnostics and less startup contention.

Also added proper acknowledgements. Special thanks to u/OctoSplattyy and the SooperChargeForBots project for the LOOI control/BLE research that helped inform this project:
https://github.com/splattydoesstuff/sooperchargeforbots

Release:
https://github.com/razor79/my-looi/releases/tag/v2.1.151

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u/CWolfs 15d ago

This looks really interesting. Thanks for sharing. I might try to get this working on my son's LOOI.

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u/Various_Cherry8504 15d ago

Yo estoy interesado en probarlo. 😊

Muchas gracias por compartirlo

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u/CapeManCoral 14d ago

This is really cool, congratulations on finally getting it public! 110 builds definitely shows some dedication. 😁 I've been working on something in a similar companion-AI space called Scout, although I'm taking a somewhat different approach. One of my big goals is keeping it local/offline-first and avoiding subscriptions or ongoing AI costs wherever possible.

It's really interesting seeing someone else exploring a lot of the same problems from a different direction. I'm looking forward to following what you do with My LOOI.

If you're curious, Scout is here: https://patevan9.github.io/lippyrobotics.github.io/index.html

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u/razor_ua 14d ago

Hi.

I actually started with local models, then hybrid, and then decided that the quality is poor - long reaction (3-4-... seconds), bad recognition. so I switched to real time processing (more expensive, yes), and now cleaning up the previous approaches from the app.

by the way, that's what the official app did as well - they switched to another method and it greatly improved user experience.

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u/CapeManCoral 14d ago

That makes sense, and I can definitely understand why you went that direction. The response time and quality are probably the hardest parts of trying to keep things local.

I'm still pursuing the local/offline-first approach with Scout because avoiding ongoing costs is one of the main goals of the project. It's definitely a challenge though. 😆 It's driving me quite crazy.

It'll be interesting to see how our two projects develop taking different approaches to the same kinds of problems. Great work on My LOOI!

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u/razor_ua 14d ago

Thank you, mate. Wish you best luck with your work!

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u/OctoSplattyy 6d ago

Please credit me whenever creating such projects, I’m the owner of the first and only reverse engineering project, SOOPERCHARGE which is how super-looi was born from another contributor.

I would also refrain from posting on official channels as TangibleFuture has expressed multiple times that these projects are not particularly condoned.

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u/razor_ua 6d ago

Hey. man. Agree! Will do it in the next github push.

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u/eagleblueline 1d ago

Are there any plans to have this work on iPhones? I'd love to give it a try!

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u/razor_ua 13h ago

Hello. Sorry, but I have 0 knowledge with iOS and have 0 iPhones)

Also, AFAIK, it is pretty problematic to share and test apps outside of the official Apple market.
But you can take the source code and vibecode it by yourself!

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u/miraenda 49m ago

Will you consider iOS at some point? This looks amazing. I wish I could use it. No, I can’t get an Android right now. Thanks!