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Because spending tens of thousands of dollars in home infrastructure to avoid fiddling with the thermostat four times a year definitely makes sense.
My heat is controlled and automated with open source software for the grand total of about fifty bucks and a free surplus server.
I'm in the middle of building literally the exact same thing for myself. Beyond privacy/security, the aspect of the app I worry about the most is giving oneself perfect memory and then never being able to escape the past. That last fight you had with your ex? Well now its recorded and you can listen to it, and dissect it, and wonder what you could have done differently, right up until you blow your brains out. But, a…
I think that while there is a recording it does not mean you will remember and access is. E.g. I have folders of my high school math but will likely never consult them for an actual day problem, only for remembering/reminiscing.
A related question, is there a ready solution to do constant recording using some Linux box (e.g. Raspberry PI)? AFAIR I've seen someone recommended such software on HN but I can't find it right now, it was something for recording radio stations or similar. I would like to get some kind of sound monitoring of my house when I'm away or sleeping and besides using arecord I couldn't find anything useful.
Even better is something like the Guardian Project's Haven( https://github.com/guardianproject/haven ) which IIRC Snowden contributed to. It's incredibly cost-effective to just buy an old Android phone (which comes integrated with multiple microphones, with good signal processing and noise cancellation), instead of building it with components. Haven is specifically designed for intrusion detection, and for preventing…
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I‘d be interested in knowing of any cases where someone who recorded their own activities used it as an alibi. Right now it's all theoretical. Dash cams are really strong evidence in traffic court, but this isn’t criminal so it has a lower bar. From the other end, body cam footage is powerful when worn by police, and cell phone evidence by bystanders are also strong evidence.
I was falsely accused of some serious crimes and abuse. It turns out, having security camera footage of the entire period of time showing that not only did you do nothing of the sort, but fundamentally could not have done anything of the sort , and was actually just playing with your kids the entire time, and the accuser had to have known so, changes the dynamic of such a case quite quickly. Unfortunately, no one see…
This is really interesting and many of the comments here go into the utility of this, however, verify that you aren't recording somebody else without their consent, in many places it is illegal to record to conversations without the other party's consent. I only ran across this problem years ago when, due to a serious potential workplace issue I suggested somebody basically "wear a wire" and record their workday to c…
Very interesting idea. Would you be willing to share more info on the tech used in the process? >I bought a couple of Chinese microphones Which exact microphones? How long does their battery last? As well as other parts of the process.
Not the OP but I've been tinkering with the same concept (24/7 processing). 'm using vosk browser: https://github.com/ccoreilly/vosk-browser To do speech to text locally and it works very well for English.
You can probably try vosk-api on the desktop-grade machine. You need big models from https://alphacephei.com/vosk/models, they require like 8Gb to run but they are much more accurate.
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Would the sound of jostling in your pocket/bag not set off the recording?
I'm not sure about jostling, but lots of noises would set it off. It's erring on the side of recording when there is sound, and it can't tell speak from not speach, though you can set a sensitivity level.
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At 128kbps the MP3 takes about 56mb per hour, I got the 16gb, so you have a lot of time, the battery of the smaller one I read is 800 mAh , according to the docs should last around 2hrs, but I try to recharge it as soon as I can
Thank you, hmmm... you wrote 2hrs, I guess it's a typo. In the page it's 20 and more than enough for my use case. And even the 4GB is overkill if you make a daily dump.
I see he is concerned about his own, but he doesn't seem to be at all concerned with anyone elses. Personally if i discovered that someone I interacted with was doing this I would insist that they deleted any data concerning myself they had gathered and pursue whatever means were available to me if they refused.