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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...

I prefer planning chores to actually doing chores. So naturally, I created a super simple system for keeping track of repeating household chores. The goal of this article is to show you how you can make your own simple chore tracking system with a few, simple steps.

I see people complicating chore...

Have you ever had trouble with your Fibaro battery powered devices not updating thir battery state after changing the battery? Or any other battery powered Z-wave devices suddenly dying, even if you thought they had 100% battery?

That's probably because for some strange reason, the Z-Wave JS integ...

Do you struggle keeping track of the household chores assigned to your kids? Or motivating them to complete their tasks? At one point, we used a whiteboard to keep track of tasks. But it's analogue, got limited space, got no time tracking, can't notify me, it's easy to forget to reset and hard to ca...