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
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
Test automation or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Async __init__

Morning everybody…

 

I recommend reading this part of the blog only in the morn…

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Alex 2018 Aug. 14 (Tue) 19:18 python linux octopus
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
"Output" за год Python

Фиг знает, когда там принято делать выводы за год, я сделаю их сегодня. Screenshot_13 Ровно год назад, я поменял…

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Alex 2015 Dec. 08 (Tue) 14:38 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
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
Django + apache2 + mod_wsgi

This is conf file to allow apache run Django applications.

# Web site at /var/www/smm_tools
# Pyt…

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Alex 2015 Sept. 24 (Thu) 21:30 python Django
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
Web server redirect

Во-первых, чтобы найти статьи на интересующую меня тему, пришлось по изгаляться с поиском, правильн…

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Alex 2014 July 03 (Thu) 21:20 project man
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