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Back when I setup my home automation I ended up with one piece that used an external service: Amazon Alexa. I'd rather not have done this, but voice control is extremely convenient, both for us, and guests. Since then Home Assistant has done a lot of work in developing the capability of a local voice assistant - 2023 was their Year of Voice. I've had brief looks at this in the past, but never quite had the time to dig into setting it up, and was put off by the fact a lot of the setup instructions were just "Download our prebuilt components". While I admire the efforts to get Home Assistant fully packaged for Debian I accept that's a tricky proposition, and settle for running it in a venv on a Debian stable container. Voice requires a lot more binary componen...
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I recently went into a deep dive on "UART" and will publish a much longer article on the topic. This is just a recap of the basics to help put things in context. Many tutorials focus on using UART over USB, which adds many layers of abstraction, hiding what it actually is. Here, I deliberately ... Continue reading How to use "real" UART
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pc-switch prototype arrived and I need to fix some things. But it is working perfectly!
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