More boxes

[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.

Comments

[jecook]

interesting. I was planning to use a windows app called VoxCommando and some custom xml configuration shenanigans with hubitat.

For me, it'll be more like getting thrown into the deep end of a helicopter crash rescue pool, but the install docs for rhasspy, the glue code, and the matrix voice look reasonable enough for someone who normally doesn't really screw around a whole like with coding to follow along with.
And seeing as I was planning on buying new hardware to replace the dots entirely (since vox commando is a windows app, that would mean buying a quartet of USFF windows boxen and some decent mics and speaker rigs for them), so for ~$200 and some futzing around, I can get a node up and running as a POC and go from there. Might have to build a case for it, but hey, I have a 3d printer and a tinkerCAD account for that. :D

[silveradept]

Sounds like you have a plan and the ability to work on your preferred environment to do it with, then. Good skills to you, and we'll be curious to hear from you how it turned out, since I had a beast of a time trying to get Rhasspy to work under the Windows Subsystem for Linux. If Vox Commando can play nice with my current intent system, then one more mic would mean control possibilities for the one room where voice control would be a good idea, but it hasn't happened yet.