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
Python 3 showing progressbar while subprocess.Popen

Have an interesting case I want to share and save for future. One small problem in this system:&nb…

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Alex 2017 Sept. 23 (Sat) 15:46 python octopus
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
The conclusion after migration VMvsHyperV

VMvsHyperV_result.PNG So, what can I say before migration. First day looks good, nothing leaks, all services works as ex…

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Alex 2015 April 14 (Tue) 12:18 virtualization
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
Redmine update 3.0.1

Redmine Update

Great, there is a new Redmine 3.0.1 published!

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Alex 2015 April 15 (Wed) 19:56 linux 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
Ну здравствуй, Google Drive API

Ну здравствуй, Google API! Всего каких-от пару месяцев назад, я бы никуй не понял, в этом эльфийско…

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Alex 2016 Jan. 13 (Wed) 14:20 REST web
VK_execute

Для всех страждущих наконец выкладываю нормальные примеры использования VK Script: https://github.c…

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Alex 2017 July 26 (Wed) 20:05 python
Заводим питончика дома или установка Python на Centos 6

Хороший гайд pythonздесь: https://github.com/h2oai/h2o/wiki/Installing-python-2.7-on-centos-6.3.-Fol…

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Alex 2015 April 20 (Mon) 14:45 python linux
Y.A. great plugin for Redmine!

Yet another great plugin for Redmine just teached me how to add tables and columns manually into My…

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Alex 2014 Nov. 03 (Mon) 04:29 linux project man