UGREEN’s HomeAgent puts AI photo library search on hardware you own

UGREEN has moved into the smart home with HomeAgent, a range of hubs built around local AI and local storage rather than the cloud. That framing is what makes it worth a look for photographers, because underneath the smart home marketing sits a NAS with AI that can search and organise a photo library — without any of it leaving the building. Details are on UGREEN’s site. What it actually is Three models, and they are very different machines despite the shared naming. The HomeAgent HA100 uses a Rockchip RK3588 with 16GB of LPDDR5, three drive bays (two for NAS storage, one dedicated to surveillance footage), an M.2 NVMe slot and 2.5Gb Ethernet. Its built-in NPU manages 6 TOPS, rising to a claimed 26 TOPS with UGREEN’s T20 accelerator card fitted. The HA100 Pro switches to an entirely different platform, the CIX P1 CP8180, with 32GB of memory, a claimed...