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[azurelunatic]

I believe I have tracked down the source of the hot electronics smell that shows up when the living room mini-split is on. It's my computer, which is currently sitting directly in the hot air path. So I am determined that I will move the tower very soon.


Mama has been sending boxes of my old stuff, now that she's no longer occupied by urgent house stuff and nursing Dad. The first one arrived Friday. The next three showed up today.

Among other things, I now have my Spock marionette, a few Star Wars items, several small boxes of tiny treasures, two baby blankets and an afghan, and most of the memorabilia associated with Nerd Camp.

I ... found my first engagement ring, in all its pewter glory.


Meanwhile, Belovedest has their ZigBee radio, after the Sengled hub started only occasionally talking to the internet. They've been muttering to themselves about assorted programming decisions.


We did not get around to moving my desk around today.

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[azurelunatic]

We're using Home Assistant, originally running on a designed-for-purpose Raspberry Pi type object, currently running on the living room Linux box. Currently I think 3 rooms are miked: living room, main bedroom, and possibly Alex's bedroom as well. All separate command phrases, since it doesn't seem like the thing plays nicely with microphone overlap.

The main bedroom microphone is an old Playstation webcam on a Pi; the main problem was the extremely bright blue active light, which we are currently solving with a handkerchief.

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