Welcome to this week’s casual kōrero thread!
This post will be pinned in this community so you can always find it, and will stay for about a week until replaced by the next one.
It’s for talking about anything that might not justify a full post. For example:
- Something interesting that happened to you
- Something humourous that happened to you
- Something frustrating that happened to you
- A quick question
- A request for recommendations
- Pictures of your pet
- A picture of a cloud that kind of looks like an elephant
- Anything else, there are no rules (except the rule)
So how’s it going?
This week’s dumb thing I did: I thought I would like to experiment with local voice control for home assistant, instead of the current cloud one. I thought “I wonder what the best text-to-speech voice sounds like”, so I selected the most intensive Whisper model. I have Home Assistant on a Raspberry Pi, and it pretty much immediately locked up. I couldn’t get into Home Assistant to disable it. I restarted it, but it automatically re-loaded it and proceeded to lock up.
I was worried I’d have to restore from a backup, but luckily I worked out there was a 30 second window between startup and lockup and so I plugged it into a monitor and used the command line to edit the addons config to remove Whisper. It ruined an evening but otherwise no harm done.