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A lot of folks have said "pihole". I have a linux server at home that does my DNS and a bunch of other stuff. I also have a pi3 still in the box. Would there be an advantage to me running pihole on the pi3 instead of on my linux server?
I still don't understand how pi-hole became so popular whereas privoxy didn't
1) PiHole 2) Wired one into a rotary phone to make a weird steampunky smarthouse controller (Dial '0' to turn off all downstairs lights and music, etc) 3) Various LED controls for fun, and Christmas 4) Always experimenting with MycroftAI to stay away from Alexa
2 sounds amazing
A first version of the code is on github: https://github.com/estiens/confessional_booth
It was originally part of a confessional booth taken to Burning Man in 2015. Since then it has evolved and become part of my smart home stuff.
I was intimidated when I started as it was my first "hardware" project, but the rotary phone part was pretty easy! Just a little switch that turns on and off the number of times of the number dialed basically.
It actually has a (new) microphone wired into the mouthpiece and it uses the receiver original speaker ired to the pi sound output.
(At the time I knew nothing about Linux so I think getting pulseaudio working correctly took as long as everything else!)
Those aren't working currently, but eventually I plan to integrate both the rotary dials and voice recognition and "scenes"
So like, dial "721" for light control. Voice: "And what are we doing with the lights today..." Me: "Make the outside light purple" and it is done.
I have custom voice recongition for things like that working with Mycroft, so it will just be a matter of joining the two projects!
Using several Raspberry Pis to monitor CO2 levels in my house. Each Raspberry Pi has a CO2 sensor - wrote a little Python script to retrieve data from sensor and upload it to a server Which is also a Raspberry Pi.
There's a thousand or so of them scattered around Europe which were the foundation of the company I work at, acting as IoT hubs to communicate with devices designed to alert insurance customers of floods, intrusion, and fire in their homes. We hadn't ever really planned to get into building our own hubs, but the RPi ecosystem meant that when we were forced into that corner on short notice (thanks Smartthings for shut…
I have 3 running right now 1x Raspberry Pi model B (from 2012!) - runs a reverse proxy to things in my local network, and runs a dynamic DNS service. It's showing its age as its ARMv6 and I guess at some point updates won't be as frequent so will eventually have to retire it, but it works fine for now. 1x Pi model 3 - runs various services, inc. GOGS a private git server, ZNC, a service to control my TV, a service to…
Do you have any more information or a write up on what you're doing with Twilio and voicemail? That sounds sort of interesting.
I have my (cell) phones voicemail set to my Twilio number. When a voicemail request hits Twilio, it calls an endpoint hosted on my Pi, which then just calls the Twilio APIs to
1. tell the caller to leave a message after the beep
2. record the message
3. use the speech-to-text API to transcribe the message
4. send me an SMS message with the transcription
It's really just an ersatz visual/text voicemail service that I think iPhone users get. Also the Twilio speech-to-text transcriptions are hilariously bad, I don't think it copes well with UK accents :)
1x running OctoPrint by the 3D printer
1x responsible for remote serial access to and cycling power on my RISC-V board
1x updates the weather on an e-ink display every 20 minutes
1x Raspberry Pi 3 installed in my car within the internal network as a bastion box and to run software that let's my interact with the entertainment system 1x Raspberry Pi 3 running Home Assistant with a Z-Wave USB Dongle (Home Automation) 1x Raspberry Pi 3 running OctoPrint (Host/remote-control for 3D Printer) 1x Raspberry Pi 3 running FullPageOS (Full-screen Chromium in kiosk mode) displaying a server statusboard i…
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2 sounds amazing
Thanks! A first version of the code is on github: https://github.com/estiens/confessional_booth It was originally part of a confessional booth taken to Burning Man in 2015. Since then it has evolved and become part of my smart home stuff. I was intimidated when I started as it was my first "hardware" project, but the rotary phone part was pretty easy! Just a little switch that turns on and off the number of times of…