Voice Assistant - Local Conversation Agent Sometimes Ignored

[rac146]

The problem

I'm not sure if the following behavior is intended or not, but it feels like a bug.

I have "Prefer handling commands locally" checked for my voice assistant:

When asking Assist a question that triggers a local sentence on the initial question, this works fine a expected (I know I triggered locally when I see 'Done'):

However, if you ask the wrong question and then try to correct yourself, the LLM seems stuck in Followup mode and doesn't look at the Local Agent again:

If you ask the LLM agent to RESET and then ask again, it (usually) works as intended:

I would expect every question to always look at the Local Agent first - there is a use case especially for voice where it might misunderstand your wording the first time and then you try to correct the voice input but then you get stuck in this state.

What version of Home Assistant Core has the issue?

core-2026.2.1

What was the last working version of Home Assistant Core?

No response

What type of installation are you running?

Home Assistant OS

Integration causing the issue

No response

Link to integration documentation on our website

https://www.home-assistant.io/voice_control/

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[petep0p]

I'm experiencing exactly this issue as well. I'm using extended openai conversation, and i was previously using Wyoming-satellite. that stopped working in 2026.2 for me so i switched the satellite to Linux voice assistant. since then, this issue has been far more common.

[arturpragacz]

This is intentional.

[rac146]

Should it be intentional though? @arturpragacz

Example Use Case:
(Assume a local trigger sentence exists for "close the bedroom curtains" )

User says: close the bedroom curtains
STT thinks: close the sadroom curtains
No trigger sentences match

User says again: close the bedroom curtains
STT: close the bedroom curtains
Even though there is a local trigger sentence it still won't match because this is an LLM followup?

This is a real-world scenario and the local trigger should be accounted for somehow. STT will never be 100% accurate. Why would it be ignored?

[arturpragacz]

Whether it should be like that or not is a different question. The point is it is intentional, making this issue not a bug report, but a feature request. We have a different place for feature requests.

[rac146]

Will do! The only reason I reported it as a bug is because the conversation option says "prefer handling local commands locally" and as pointed out here that is not always the case. It is a little confusing. I'll make a feature request.

[rac146]

https://github.com/orgs/home-assistant/discussions/2924