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
ADDM Appliance cannot start, tomcat freeze

This problem happend with me after host with ADDM was unexpectedly. After startup system can n…

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Alex 2015 March 17 (Tue) 00:04
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
VMware storage migration v.2

В общем, все оказалось намного проще, даже картинок не потребуется чтобы объяснить или запомнить: -…

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Alex 2013 Dec. 22 (Sun) 20:13 virtualization
High CPU usage VMWare ESXi 5.5

Использование CPU в определенный момент начинало превышать допустимые нормы, сервер зависал и не от…

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Alex 2013 Nov. 29 (Fri) 00:29
Install Bacula on debian systems

Failed to load the database DBI driver SQLite at ./bacula-backup-lib.pl line 45 Based on:

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Alex 2016 July 12 (Tue) 03:02 linux
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
Rails update for Redmine

Как обнаружилось в предыдущей статье - у меня старые "рельсы" Теперь пришло время их обновить, если…

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Alex 2014 Sept. 12 (Fri) 13:33 project man
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
Atlassian Confluence REST API Making request and keep the session (Eng)

In this topic I'll show you how to make session to Atlassian Confluence with python requests and ke…

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Alex 2016 July 11 (Mon) 16:00 python REST
OwnCloud usefull commands

Here I'll collect useful commands for OwnCloud

-su apache or webu…

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Alex 2015 March 27 (Fri) 11:48 linux