How I Built a Home Video RAG search app using local AI

[githop]

Abstract

Many folks spent time over the past holiday season tinkering with the latest models and tools to build side projects. I used this time to build an app that would allow me to search through home videos from my family. The talk will showcase 4 components I used to accomplish this:

1. A whisperX project to transcribe 150 GB of home videos
2. An ingestion pipeline and RAG app that uses the transcriptions as source data
3. A TUI app I built to learn OpenTUI which I use to manage vLLM inference server containers that powered the RAG app.
4. My AI home lab developer setup which the app runs on.
   I will overview the stack and tools I used to build the above, what I learned along the way.

Date

01.04.2026

This will be my first tech talk

• This will be my first tech talk

Code of Conduct

• I agree to follow this project's Code of Conduct

[githop]

I gave this talk at DenverScript recently and would be open to presenting at BoulderJS if you are ever in need of speakers!

[prescottprue]

I would love to hear about this

[PatrickHeneise]

@githop that'd be great! We have an event coming up on the 23rd, does that work for you?