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Are you frustrated about not being understood when talking to you smart home? Are you Norwegian? Despair no more.

This is how you can use the Norwegian language model trained by National Library of Norway Ai Labs on 20.000 hours of labeled sound material. You can find the model files on Hugging...

There are so many tips for monitoring your servers or raspberries through Home Assistant. Some involve Prometheus and the Grafana Add-on, some involve the RPi Reporter MQTT2HA Daemon, and others suggest Glances in various flavors.

Pick the easy (although maybe bloated) way out - and just install G...

Do you want to monitor disk, CPU, memory and network throughput for your Raspberry? A nice way to do gather these metrics is using Prometheus, and visualize the data with Grafana. With Grafana, you can also set up alerts when the disk space runs low or the network traffic is too high for too long.

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While it's easy to make a local assist pipeline, and get away from Google Assistant or Alexa, it's not really that easy to go all local and still have decent performance. I'll show you how you can go completely local on all stages - and still have blazing fast performance.

With the introduction o...

This tutorial will guide you towards setting up fully local text-to-speech and speecth-to-text with Wyoming Whisper and Piper. We'll be doing this on a Proxmox 8.1.4 virtual environment, within an Ubuntu 22.04 LXC. Thanks to CUDA, this will be blazing fast, but it requires you to have a compatible G...

Considering the ongoing energy crisis, you may feel the need to limit your energy consumption. With PowerWiz for Home Assistant, I have implemented a basic approach to limiting your peak hourly energy consumption and cutting power during peak price hours. PowerWiz doesn’t have dependencies like Node...