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
VMware vCenter Single Sign-on install

Установка первого пакета: vCenter Single Sign-on Описание: если вкратце, из того что я понял, …

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Alex 2013 Dec. 05 (Thu) 15:16 virtualization
Redmine digest emails

Digest plugin

Есть такой волшебный плагин, который в заданные промежутки времени может отправлять …

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Alex 2014 Sept. 12 (Fri) 13:04 project man
Helix Perforce - the name has changed and that`s all for now

Overview

Perforce is a commercial, proprietary revision control system developed by Perforce Softw…

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Alex 2015 April 09 (Thu) 15:30 linux
For list of dicts: merge same key values, sum another diff. values, count each merge iteration +1 Python

If anybody can help me with some task? I have list of dicts(or tuples), where: if tuples:

 comment…

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Alex 2015 Dec. 07 (Mon) 22:33 python
How tired I am of Google way how get API tokens

Google APIYou must:

  1. Create application and take its id and secret.
  2. Make a GET request to send secret and …

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Alex 2016 Feb. 04 (Thu) 22:15 python REST
VMware vCenter Server

Установка четвертого пакета: VMware vCenter Server Устанавливаем аккаунт, от которого будет за…

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Alex 2013 Dec. 05 (Thu) 15:18 virtualization
Хитрожопые плагины Redmine

Встретился мне тут только что плагин один: http://www.redmine.org/plugins/redmine_omniauth_ulogin Д…

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Alex 2014 Sept. 12 (Fri) 15:52 project man
MySQL how to Alter multiple schema tables

To MyISAM from all InnoDB:

SET @DATABASE_NAME = 'db_name';
SELECT  CONCAT('ALTER TABLE `', table_…

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Alex 2015 March 25 (Wed) 23:22 SQL DB
From vmdk to vhd

  • StarWind V2V Image Converter
  • VMware vCenter Converter Standalone Client
  •  

Very useful:

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Alex 2016 April 27 (Wed) 16:32 virtualization
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