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
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
Could not connect to one or more vCenter Server systems

Сразу разбираю проблему, чтобы не забыть: Capture Первый же гугл-ответ:  шлет на KB тут htt…

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Alex 2014 Sept. 29 (Mon) 17:16 virtualization
MySQL How to Reset the Root Password

https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/resetting-permissions.html Added to bookmarks:

  1. Log on to…

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Alex 2015 June 26 (Fri) 17:03
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
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
VMware vCenter Server install

VMware vCenter Server clean installation guide Здесь я расскажу, как поставить vCenter Server …

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Alex 2013 Dec. 05 (Thu) 15:15 virtualization
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
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
Веб-сайт на IIS + FastCGI

Многие считают это извращением, но для собственного опыта и для закрепления понимания общего процес…

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Alex 2013 Nov. 10 (Sun) 19:48
vmdk madness!

When reading a lot of guides how better migrate from ESXi to Hyper-V I've saw some madness and then…

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Alex 2015 April 10 (Fri) 17:16 virtualization