Raspberry 5 test-to-speech using Piper

I wanted to make my Raspberry tell me about power outages and air alerts near my location.

The setup is pretty simple and described ar the repo:

Alex 2024 April 17 (Wed) 22:49 tech raspberry python linux
Installing NUT - Network Ups Tool Notifications and emails

Notifications and email

 

Simple

 Go to file:

sudo vi /etc/nut/upsmon.conf
Add at the EOF:
# Email script for NOTIFYCMD
# Simple
NOTIFYCMD "/etc/nut/notifycmd.sh" …

Alex 2024 April 14 (Sun) 17:15 tech raspberry linux
Installing NUT - Network Ups Tool

I'll describe a full path on how to install and use NUT.
My implementation is using Raspberry Pi 5 and a TP-Link router attached to 800W UPS.
RPi will be …

Alex 2024 April 14 (Sun) 16:28 tech raspberry linux
WSGI mod, Python, Django, Celery and a nice fella virtualenv

Here I'll show how to use Python (3.8.0 in the current example, but legit for latest 3.+ versions, not for os.name == 'NT') and virtualenv to setup WGSI enabled …

Alex 2019 Oct. 28 (Mon) 23:31 python
Test automation or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Async __init__

Morning everybody…

 

I recommend reading this part of the blog only in the morn…

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Alex 2018 Aug. 14 (Tue) 19:18 python linux octopus
vSphere Datastore usage on disk - alert

Yo! Check this out and try to understand why this happens? Alerts saying there is less than 8Gb fre…

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Alex 2014 Dec. 11 (Thu) 11:15 virtualization
Радио работает в штатном режиме

Спустя несколько недель тестов, наконец удалось настроить логику воспроизведения на радио triangles…

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Alex 2013 Dec. 09 (Mon) 14:06 web
I'm WORDPRESS I've made REST look at me!

Thanks, for UTF-8 support!

title=\"\u041d\u0430\u0436\u043c\u0438\u0442\u0435, \u0447\u0442\u043e\…

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Alex 2016 March 01 (Tue) 12:21 REST
from VmWare to Windows Hyper-V

So! This time has come! I will switch my virtual enviroment from Vmware to Windows Server 2012 + Hy…

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Alex 2015 April 10 (Fri) 00:15 windows virtualization
Finally GbE adapter working

Finally! I have spent some time to allow the GbE NIC worked as expected. Have just drop down a vCen…

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Alex 2014 Dec. 04 (Thu) 16:45 virtualization
All about Atlassian JIRA

Atlassian JIRA

Пришло время взяться за исследование своего первого продукта на работке. На этот ре…

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Alex 2015 Feb. 27 (Fri) 14:50 project man
Could not connect to one or more vCenter Server systems

Сразу разбираю проблему, чтобы не забыть: Capture Первый же гугл-ответ:  шлет на KB тут htt…

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Alex 2014 Sept. 29 (Mon) 17:16 virtualization
Python schedule how to

Задачка на вечер: Дано: задание, которое нужно выполнять в заданные промежутки времени, модуль Pyth…

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Alex 2016 July 23 (Sat) 21:15 python
VMware KB: After installing/upgrading to vCenter Server 5.1, the Active Directory domain is not listed when trying to assign permissions

Be aware, if you lost this shit tread - you can possibly lost your evening by reinstalling the vCen…

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Alex 2014 Dec. 11 (Thu) 00:30 windows