I am making an esphome system for my old Yamaha AV receiver. RCA out via a cheap i2s chip, mems I2S mic in the enclosure that can hear well enough in the room, and an IR blaster output to change the AV receiver channel to the esp when voice is activated and change it back after.

Cool side effect is that it can also be used as an HA media player for streaming Spotify and local music to the speaker system.

Racism is not fascism. Imperialism is not fascism. Nationalism isn’t facism. They are characteristics that sometimes or often lead to facism. Facism has a fairly explicit definition. Things can be a part of each other and overlap each other without being each other.

If I make a snowman, that doesn’t mean that the carrot is a snowman or every snow sphere is a snowman. You can say that when you see me laying out the carrot with 3 balls of snow and a hat, it is leading to a snowman, but it has not always been a snowman.

But yes, facism is a huge danger and on the rise all over the world. Not even just in white western countries either.

Yes, but you pretty much have to do a full battery test and pen test like the great Scott video because it is really a 60/40 of getting fake sodium ion batteries from Aliexpress 😅

Imperialist ≠ fascist

America was often imperialist, only had periods of fascist political movements and has been transitioning for a while.

Interesting. Ran nuke nests mission today and we saw about 6 in 1 mission on level 8

Sorry, I misunderstood what you are trying to do here. I thought you were trying to use the Atom Echo itself as a media player. Disregard that arduino library comment, it isn’t relevant. I just watched the video since I couldn’t earlier.

Indeed what you are doing should work. Are you certain that the upload was successful? With GPIO21 set as the speaker output, the speaker data should absolutely not work. The fact that it does means that somewhere along the line, the GPIO22 is set as the speaker output.

on_tts_end: you have a media player component while you define a speaker instead. They are not interchangeable. It is likely trying to grab default values from somewhere because of that. Media player is better if you want the device to also play music or alerts through home assistant instead of voice assistant or some preset wav files.

Media player is also a speaker using an arduino library (not compatible with esp_adf as that uses the esp-idf framework and not arduino). If you want to use the media player, you have to get rid of vad_threshold and the esp_adf.

Please follow this yaml for an esp-idf config using the speaker instead of the media player: https://github.com/esphome/firmware/blob/main/voice-assistant/m5stack-atom-echo.yaml

You can also print the object and use it to make a silicone mold, right? That doesn’t stick to concrete.

Freecad mainline.

The feature freeze is on and they have a UI overhaul and a Topological Naming Problem fix.

I am using the 0.22 dev version with the fix and oh boy it makes a huge difference. Obviously deleting a face where there was a feature attached to results in an error still. It makes it viable to use the mainline instead of realthunder fork.

True, but through pihole, you can see if your phone makes pings to microsoft servers during use.

It doesn’t request location access, it doesn’t request contact or phone access, it doesn’t require you to sign into a microsoft account, it doesn’t constantly send data back home, etc… It only requests file permission and camera permission while you are using the app. A lot of apps harvest your data, and the entire Windows OS is built around harvesting your data and spying on your every click. This app doesn’t seem to do that as far as anyone can discern.

I use mine with Microsoft Lens (I know, but one of their best products that doesn’t spy on you) as a document scanner and then sync it to my document server paperless-ngx.

It can angle correct, color correct, and has good filters for b&w and greyscale that often make it look like a real document scanner if your phone has a decent camera.

Much better than drive or any of the open source options to be honest, sadly…

Baldur’s gate is 20% off. Definitely definitely worth the price

Though pumped hydro is sometimes opposed by environmental groups because it does absolutely decimate local environments.

I have high hopes for sodium batteries. The ones that have been released on the market are simply perfect (if scaled up) for local grid storage in countries with a lot of space and will hopefully get better energy density in line with Lithium Iron Phosphate with time.

Salt batteries have been the cold fusion of battery tech for like 10 years, but now it is finally coming to fruition. I hope to install a solar installation with salt batteries in 5 years or so, myself.

One of the best usecases of AI LLMs, searching the internet information for facts and real-time corrections, and yet one of the ones it, by design, sucks at so bad and will just hallucinate facts being right or wrong.

But to be fair, even 2 ASUS WiFi 6E on their zenwifi like for example are like >300€. A Cloud gateway ultra + U7 pro + PoE injector is around that too. For me the router/AP entrance is in a place that barely gives a signal so it makes so sense to have an access point there.

So I would get more or less the same signal with 1 access point + a wired router than 2 access points.

Depends on your situation of course.

It is good to note that the datum plane technique completely breaks sometimes when changes on earlier shapes when dealing with angles and rotation, and non-planar geometry unless you reference it to a face (in which case topo naming again) because rotation of a datum plane is rotated and shifted with respect to the origin and not the desired face. Not to mention getting an exact face takes a long time of tweaking with complex parts.

Also be careful with spreadsheets. Is one variable is referenced more than 15 times or so, every mouse click in the spread sheet starts taking minutes to calculate. I had an outer shell dimension in a PC case in a design that I referenced a lot and clicking a spreadsheet cell would trigger an 8 minute recompute before I was even able to enter the cell to edit the variable (so then another 8 minutes after editing)

Let’s be honest, it doesn’t work for 30% of listed businesses either… Typing in more than 1 word automatically returns utter crap.

If I type is SPAR, I get all supermarkets near me.

If I type in SPAR supermarket because that is what it is listed under, I get this BS, random supermarkets 60+ km away. Even if it could only parse out supermarket because of how badly it parses, then it still could take supermarkets near me.

When I type in just supermarket, I get the supermarkets near me. Any time I type more than one word, the search completely breaks…

And thus we have come full circle back to the XFire experience after so many years 😂

Then use Wireguard to get into your local network. Simple as. All security risks that don’t need to be accessed by the public (document servers, ssh, internal tools, etc…) can be accessed via VPN while the port forwarded servers are behind a reverse proxy, TLS, and an authentication layer like Authelia/authentik for things that only a small group needs to access.

Sorry, but there is 1 case in 10000 where a home user would have to have publicly exposed SSH and 9999 cases of 10000 where it is not needed at all and would only be done out of laziness or lack of knowledge of options.