In the last part of this series we checked-out and installed software for building our own voice assistant without leverage cloud resources. In this article we will focus on linking both Rhasspy and Node-RED. At the end, the assistant will learn it's first function. Desired state As we already know from the last …

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Recently, I had to migrate a bigger amount of git repositories from one software to another provider. One requirement was to copy the whole project including commit history and tags. Fortunately, it was easy to automate this process. First of all the former repository needs to be cloned - if not done, yet: 1$ git clone …

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Voice assistants are omnipresent gadgets loved by technophile geeks. They support ad-hoc tasks (set tee timer, announce outdoor temperature) and integrate flawlessly into home automation and other third-party systems. Unfortunately, data privacy is often subordinated with these kind of gadgetry. Using various …

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Docker has been supporting multiple processor architecture for a long time - including x86_64 and ARMv6/7 being the most well-known ones. In addition to them, aarch64/arm64 (ARMv8+), s390x (IBM z Systems) and ppc64le (IBM POWER) are also possible. Images can be created for multiple architectures in a parallel manner …

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To translate text into voice, a TTS software (Text-to-Speech) is required. Under Linux there are basically two free tools: CMU Flite and eSpeak. CMU Flite (festival-lite) exists since 2001 and is therefore considered a veteran in speech synthesis under Linux, eSpeak was first released in 2006. From a sound perspective, …

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If you‘re also working in IT, you will know the problem: new software always brings new requirements and at some point even powerful hardware is not adequate anymore. Even for private use-cases it might be a good idea to replace hardware after 5 years - even if you won‘t get any tax benefits. 🙂 Recently, I had to …

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SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 (SLES) not only introduced new software packages - another big update was making those packages more modular. In comparison to predecessor releases, SLES has a generic installation media for the first time. Earlier versions had dedicated images for products such as SLES for SAP or SUSE …

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When using tools such as GitLab can cloned via HTTP and SSH. Especially the second choice can be handy if there is no VPN available - but keep in mind, also sending DNS via the jumphost. The first step is establishing a SSH connection leveraging port forwarding: 1$ ssh -A -D 1337 USER@IP -i pinkepank.key Afterwards, …

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When implementing larger tasks in Ansible, you might thinking about writing your own Ansible role sooner or later. For this, the ansible-galaxy command can help you: 1$ ansible-galaxy init my-role 2- my-role was created successfully Beside handlers, variables and meta data, also a test task is created. Using this task, …

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While using the Ansible modules get_url and unarchive I recently stumbled upon the following errors: 1failed to create temporary content file: 'The read operation timed out' 2failed to create temporary content file: (-1, 'Unexpected EOF') After some research it figured out that the urllib3 library …

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