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
PSinfo утилита

Здесь мы рассмотрим интересные и полезные сферы и способы применения утилиты "PSinfo" Время от врем…

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Alex 2013 Nov. 14 (Thu) 18:38 windows web
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
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
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
Centos умирает от winbind

Сегодня "уронил" свой веб сервер неправильной настройкой samba+krb5+winbind. Траблшут под руководст…

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Alex 2013 Nov. 09 (Sat) 02:11 linux
Gjango, Pycharm - static files Windows

This topic for those who broke his mind trying to understand how to make Pycharm run Django with st…

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Alex 2017 April 26 (Wed) 17:24 python windows
Virtualization matrix

Very useful, much informative, wow! vm-matrix   http://www.virtualizationmatrix.com/matrix.php?category…

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Alex 2015 April 10 (Fri) 15:33 virtualization
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
MySQL troubleshooting

Возможные проблемы:

  •  отваливается сокет /var/lib/musql/mysql.sock

Can't connect to l…

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Alex 2013 Nov. 09 (Sat) 02:22 linux SQL DB
VMware ESX extop command usage

Очень полезная штукень, нельзя потерять extop interpreter

esxtop_troubleshooting_eng_01

VMware ESX extop command usage

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Alex 2013 Nov. 29 (Fri) 01:35