💡 Ollama + Qwen3 + Home Assistant Assist – Shared History Issue

[coarse perch]

Hey everyone! I’m using Ollama (Qwen3:4B) on a Jetson Orin NX 16GB with Home Assistant OS, and I’ve hit a weird issue when combining it with Assist.

When Assist and Ollama share the same conversation history, Assist logs only the initial request and final reply — not the JSON payload that runs the command. After that, if I send a command Ollama handles (not recognized by Assist), it only replies with text instead of executing the action.

Example:
“Turn on office light” → Assist executes fine.
Then “I wish to turn off the office light” → Ollama just says “Turned on the light” but doesn’t act.

If I clear the chat history, Ollama works again until Assist runs another command on the same entity. Commands for other entities still work fine.

Anyone run into this or found a workaround?

[snow wave]

Maybe lack of tooling support?

[coarse perch]

The Qwen3 model has support for tools, executes commands well if Assist does not command an entity first, and is recorded in the conversation history. I tried fine tuning the model for Home Assistant with Ollama create model but I can't get it to understand to send the command execution payload even though there is only the response text in the conversation history.