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
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
VMware Front Experience: FAQ: Using SSDs with ESXi (Updated)

Where and how to use SSD into the VmWare vCenter: VMware Front Experience: FAQ: Using SSDs with ESX…

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Alex 2014 Dec. 05 (Fri) 11:26 virtualization
Redmine, Rails, Gems - TOP comands

Устал постоянно гуглить те или иные частые команды для редмайна и его свиты, пришло время собрать и…

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Alex 2015 April 09 (Thu) 15:51 linux project man
Персональный тренер на андроид - Gymme Personal Trainer

Здесь я вам расскажу про полезное и удобное приложение по ведению и учету тренировок разного характ…

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Alex 2016 April 22 (Fri) 16:34 personal
Virtual Machine Disks consolidation is needed

Do not forget to delete your old snapshots or you will suffer because of CONSOLIDATION! If you're m…

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Alex 2015 March 27 (Fri) 23:04 virtualization
Python HTMLParser and Vkontakte randomizer

Finally I've finish my first "program" on Python.py_vk The task is to parse people's id from web page wh…

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Alex 2015 May 20 (Wed) 12:44 python
Windows mirrored volume and hard reset

When you doing a hardware reset for Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V with RAID1 you may catch "Volume S…

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Alex 2016 Aug. 20 (Sat) 16:23 windows
Better, then best vk execute and python part. 2

Крайняя степень эффективности.py_vk Теперь скрипт не парсит данные, их парсит сам ВК и возвращает мне ли…

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Alex 2015 Dec. 25 (Fri) 17:27 python
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: Reducing the size of the vCenter Server database when the rollup scripts take a long time to run

Looks risky but will try: VMware KB: Reducing the size of the vCenter Server database when the roll…

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Alex 2014 Dec. 05 (Fri) 14:05 virtualization