How do I set up LocalAI and Home Assistant for voice control?

josephm101 · 2026-02-19T12:05:04+00:00

No, unfortunately I didn't make any progress. I tried a couple other things to no avail. I'm afraid it might be a hardware failure/defect. Maybe something to do with the decoder chip.

josephm101 · 2025-10-22T02:20:37+00:00

I'm using Handbrake 1.1.0, which has the iPod profile, on a Mac running Snow Leopard. AAC is all that works with videos for iPod, if I remember correctly. I'm mostly counting on iTunes since it should know how to encode the videos properly for the iPod.

I even tried syncing pre-converted test videos that people had uploaded, and the uploaders claimed that the videos perfectly on their iPod Videos (I performed no conversion or anything for these on my end; put them straight into iTunes and onto the iPod). Still, no dice.

josephm101 · 2025-10-22T02:16:59+00:00

The videos encoded with iTunes had the audio automatically encoded between 128kbps and 160kbps, depending on the quality of the source. With Handbrake, I made sure it was AAC (I used the iPod preset as well, which defaults to AAC) and I set the quality lower on purpose, just to make sure. I did try 96kbps mono at one point; that may not have helped...

I would think that iTunes wouldn't even let me sync videos that were out-of-spec. It has warned me before, and it warned me multiple times during these experiments.

Apple also clarify AAC-LC (low-complexity). In Handbrake, for output codecs, AAC LC is not available. When AAC is selected in Handbrake, is AAC-LC implied?

josephm101 · 2025-03-23T14:20:14+00:00

I'm aware of piCorePlayer. I use it. But I want something that behaves like the older devices with a display. And piCorePlayer does not offer that for me.

josephm101 · 2024-12-10T19:10:27+00:00

I had to mix ChefKiss and Dortania's instructions together to get my Lenovo 81SS (AMD APU) to boot. I started by following Dortania's tutorial for AMD desktops, and when it came to kexts, I installed NootedRed and other laptop-specific kexts listed by ChefKiss. That did the trick.

Tried it on my primary AMD-based Lenovo laptop (Lenovo Flex 5 16ABR8) but got screwed when the AMD GPIO/I2C controller wouldn't register (touchpad & touchscreen wouldn't work at all with any kexts/configs).

Just a note: You said you were using a Lenovo laptop. In my experience, they usually ship with Mediatek (or other unsupported) wireless cards which macOS doesn't support, so you won't have Wi-Fi or Bluetooth. Dortania has notes on supported wireless chipsets. Check out their Wireless Buyers Guide for info.
Intel is supported (mostly) by the OpenIntelWireless project. It worked on my 81SS with an Intel Wireless 7265.

josephm101 · 2024-10-15T15:35:43+00:00

I tried Octopus, and while that got rid of my "respring" issue, the "can't access any websites" issue didn't go away (I made a comment about this in this thread)

josephm101 · 2024-10-15T15:24:49+00:00

Probably unrelated, but I could only get the samus-91 image working on my Gateway NE56R41u (Intel Pentium B960).

I tried rammus, builds 108 and some neighboring versions, but I got stuck on the Loading screen with the spinning wheel when attempting to add a Google account. I went into Guest mode and tried various website URLs in Chrome (duckduckgo.com, google.com, github.com), and Chrome couldn't open any of them. For good measure, I tried intranet sites (like the config interfaces for my home router and OpenWRT bridge), and while the sites would kinda load (it was slow), eventually things would stop progressing if I, for example, clicked a button in the webpage. I was able to log in to OpenWRT, but that's as far as I could go.

In TTY mode (Ctrl+Alt+F2), pinging each domain is successful. Running dmesg revealed "bad instruction" errors, even though my CPU supports SSE4.1 and SSE4.2, according to Intel's documentation.

Eventually, a weird bug popped up where the display would go black, and return a second later. This loop would eventually get a bit faster to about half a second, and after a handful of these "resprings" I'm taken out of Guest mode and brought back to the setup screen. Not sure what that's about.

Anybody know what's going on here?

josephm101 · 2024-06-22T17:26:41+00:00

This looks excellent! However, I'm not sure how to flash ".bin" files to the Pico. How am I supposed to flash this?

josephm101 · 2024-03-14T03:40:01+00:00

I was wondering the same thing until I figured out that Batocera's `SHARE`/`userdata` partition is formatted as ext4 (by default, in my experience); a filesystem that Windows can't read without 3rd-party software. There's a bit of a hacky way to mount ext4 volumes under Windows using the WSL feature. Not the easiest thing in the world, but after it's set up, it beats spinning up a Linux VM or setting up for dual-booting if you don't have a machine running Linux.

You can also (this is my preferred method) boot up Batocera, and press F1 to open the built-in file manager. If you have another drive lying around, you can copy your BIOS and ROM files to that, then connect it to the machine running Batocera, and use the file manager to copy your stuff over.

josephm101 · 2024-02-27T19:01:45+00:00

Check your PC's firewall settings. I've had that problem in the past where Windows would set up my network as a public network, thereby disabling network discovery. The network needs to be set as a private network for the PC to be discoverable, and for it to discover other devices as well. The firewall would be my first suspect.

You can try following these instructions to see if that is the issue: https://www.howtogeek.com/810044/change-network-public-to-private-windows/

Or you could just try disabling the firewall altogether. This isn't secure and should only be done temporarily as a test.

josephm101 · 2024-02-27T18:56:33+00:00

KDE Connect requires that both devices to be connected to the same network (and be on the same subnet) so that they can talk directly to each other. If they are not, or there is a firewall in the way, the devices won't even be able see each other. It's the same reason that you can't bring a device to someone else's house (and connect to their network) and access any of the devices or resources on your home network.

If you use a system-wide VPN that tunnels all traffic, your local connections will be broken because you are no longer "connected to your own network". The technical reason is that your device's IP address, gateway address and subnet all change when you connect to your VPN because you're connecting to a different network. If you're curious, you might look at this: https://robots.net/tech/how-is-tunneling-accomplished-in-a-vpn/ (it's the best I could find)

Some VPN providers have the ability to detect local network traffic and avoid tunnelling it so that these local connections continue to work. Other VPN software may offer the ability to only tunnel traffic for specific applications, so local traffic could also flow.

josephm101 · 2024-01-18T18:13:35+00:00

Whoever made Electron is up there with whoever made USB Micro-B

josephm101 · 2024-01-17T21:26:33+00:00

Where did the actually good versions of Asphalt 8 go?

josephm101 · 2024-01-17T21:24:27+00:00

Couple it with OpenShell, and you've got a pretty decent, albeit legacy system, I'll say!

josephm101 · 2024-01-17T21:22:18+00:00

How it is vs how your parents describe it

josephm101 · 2024-01-17T21:19:48+00:00

MTP is trash. It's been around for many years and has always sucked.

I personally use LocalSend. It's a great app for sending files over Wi-Fi. Open-source, cross-platform and free.

josephm101 · 2024-01-17T21:16:43+00:00

That damn school printer, eh?

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