KayDub
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KayDub
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Joined 9/23
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This will make voting with my dollars easier. Search for a brand to see its political contributions.

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March 5, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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February 23, 2025 at 2:28 AM
I don't know that Home Assistant voice assist is ever going to be ready for prime time.

Played with the AtomM5 and ESP32 S3 for a few months, got my Voice Preview. This same command "turn on string lights" works 99.9% of the time on both Google and Amazon. I think I may get 20% success with HA...
February 6, 2025 at 2:35 AM
More Home Automation process improvements. Had Whisper running on my gaming PC with a fancy NVIDIA graphics card. Problem is, it's in a different floor from the other HA RPis, going through two mesh routers, with a ping time up to 100ms at times. 1/2
December 29, 2024 at 12:51 AM
I have changed my Home Assistant's wakeword for my satellites to "Skynet", and I'm pretty happy about that.
December 24, 2024 at 9:46 PM
Looks like some vendors are pre-tariffing already. This from a company, DigiKey, I've bought from for years. Found the item elsewhere for the same price, sans addon.

I do think vendors should add this line to every purchase to call it out come January.
December 3, 2024 at 9:55 PM
Spent the day customizing the ESP32-BOX-3 to play nice with Home Assistant. Not just voice, but on-screen widgets and info. Only thing remaining is reliable mute/unmute of a remote media player. I'm targeting getting Alexa fully replaced with in-house functionality before next year.
December 2, 2024 at 2:20 AM
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Today in the December Comfort Watches: Much Ado About Nothing, the 1993 Shakespeare comedy that was Kenneth Branagh at his most Branaghovious. Come find out what makes it such a rewatchable joy of a film:

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December 7, 2023 at 7:10 PM