Local control is easy and better.

Something old and something new.

Raspberry Pi under-cabinet clock shows time and weather; free 3D-print files and a no-API-key weather service, built for glance viewing.

Having an AI assistant is all the rage these days, but AI assistants usually don’t know about your automation setups and may have difficulty dealing with tasks asynchronously. Enter zclaw.

KittenTTS brings small text to speech models to edge devices; the Nano 8-bit model is about 25 MB, local playback is possible.

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