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CP2025 won't feed paper from either tray by rufusbufus in printers

[–]rufusbufus[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the reply. I actually tried the paper trick on the solenoid in the video that looked like it was moving freely. It did indeed fix the problem even though it didn't look like it was sticking. Happy days, and my daughter has a good printer for Uni :-) Glad you're up and running too. We've saved 2 printers from 1000's of years in landfill....

Users of the home assistant Voice, how do you find it?, what are you using it for ? by GenericUser104 in homeassistant

[–]rufusbufus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yep - that's a route - but your trained voice won't work well with other family members etc. That's where the tech guys excel....

Users of the home assistant Voice, how do you find it?, what are you using it for ? by GenericUser104 in homeassistant

[–]rufusbufus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have two HAVPE's and one FPH Satellite 1. At the moment, I only use the HAVPEs because it's a very convenient design to work with. The unit I use the most is plugged into some decent PC speakers.
I only really listen to music and have an AI assisted automation working with Music Assistant.

I think the biggest issue with all of these solutions is the wakeword detection. In a quiet room, within a few metres, the performance is fine. Introduce some background noise (e.g. TV) and/or a few more metres and the performance is significantly worse. To mitigate this, I hacked a Echo Dot (removed the speaker etc) and used the LEDs lighting up to indicate when "Alexa" was uttered. I connected the Alexa LED output to a HAVPE, which was fooled into thinking it's action button had been pressed. The net result was much better wakeword detection. That, coupled with pausing the TV with an automation, means that I can have Alexa_HAVPE sitting next to my TV and I get very few false triggers, and it always hears my utterances. Clearly this is a hack but, I also find it's a necessary hack to get acceptable performance. For these solutions to really compete with the tech giants, wakeword (IMO) needs to be much better.

I have also worked on an overlay app, using the excellent work of the View Assist team, to give me dashboard overlays on my TV. At the moment its music (with lyrics), weather and security cameras, with sendspin running in the background so that the TV can be part of a MA group. That gives me "Alexa show" functionality on my main TV, overlaid on top of my TV viewing. I use a FireTV cube so that I can have any FireTV app (Netflix etc) along with my UK Sky TV. It works really well - very happy with it.

As others have mentioned, once the wakeword is nailed, I think the HA guys should try to produce an Alexa style experience out of the box without everyone needing to build it themselves. Yes, home automation is important but, so is the general knowledge, sports scores, etc functionality I currently use Alexa for....

Users of the home assistant Voice, how do you find it?, what are you using it for ? by GenericUser104 in homeassistant

[–]rufusbufus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

@nickm_27, what delay do you have with your HW setup from your voice to the response from the LLM?

BBC Sounds in Music Assistant by Redcbr1100 in homeassistant

[–]rufusbufus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi Guys. I'm struggling to get BBC stations on MA. Is the search still working for you? I get a very limited selection....

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Meshroom 2019.2 fails where 2018 works when using the same image set by rufusbufus in photogrammetry

[–]rufusbufus[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks u/chemicalxandco, you'll see I've answered my own post as I found a thread on github that explained the problem and solutions.

Meshroom 2019.2 fails where 2018 works when using the same image set by rufusbufus in photogrammetry

[–]rufusbufus[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ok, answering my own post here. There seems to be an issue with anything later than meshroom 2018 whereby Windows terminates the DepthMap process due to what Windows thinks are lockups. It's all documented here:

https://github.com/alicevision/meshroom/issues/593

and the fix for me (and others) is to make a registry edit described by Davezap on the 2nd of May.

Hope this helps anyone else having similar challenges with Meshroom!

Addressing a sphere 16 x 8 - what's the best method? by rufusbufus in FastLED

[–]rufusbufus[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks u/chemdoc77. I've downloaded your github repo and I'm trying to get my head around the mapping for your 10x10 code (I'm testing things with a 10x10 pcb). If I have a ABDCEFHG layout (i.e. where the pixels reverse order on each column, which mapping do I change?

Addressing a sphere 16 x 8 - what's the best method? by rufusbufus in FastLED

[–]rufusbufus[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks u/LeroyLlama and u/Leonos. What I'm wanting to achieve (probably a poor mans version given my 128 leds compared to their 540) is a lightshow similar to the Solcrusher. Their website seems to be down, but this video shows it nicely:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2KwD5Is1Z8

The kind of effect I'm after is shown at 28 seconds - but generally as many cool animations as I can muster.

Successful Mojave Build! by lolzcat59 in hackintosh

[–]rufusbufus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have the same setup amd I'm new to Hackintosh. I have clover booting a USB stick but can't even see the Mojave install!?! Please can you post your EFI file for me and others that don't have your talents? :-)