I’ve used that before. This isn’t for my printer though. I just have a few stats from it shown.
I have a small army of Google Home devices. If the government wants to hear my wife and I discuss toddler bowel movements, so be it. We got 3 of them with our Pixel2 phones, and I got 2 more on Black Friday for $29 and a $25 Google Express credit. I could use one more in my printer room, as I don’t hear broadcast messages come through over the fans. We also have one of the regular Google Home units, it actually fills a room with decent sound.
At this point you can say “Hey Google” anywhere in the house in a normal voice to turn lights on/off/different colors, or lock/unlock our back door.
To anyone using one, ask Google if she farted… there are a few fun answers. Or ask her to make you a sandwich.
My toddler has been bothering us with “Tell me a story, please” over and over. We started just asking google on our phones to tell us a story, and she does a good job.
He also argues with her when she’s giving us directions. “Turn left”, “WE ALREADY TURNED, GOOGLE!”
My kids use Alexa more than I do.
Alexa, what is the weather for today?
Alexa, Play Kid’s bop.
Alexa, what is the size of a whale poop… (thanks to my 5 year old son)
Did she have an answer? You can’t leave us hanging like that!
When I ask that she just spiels Wikipedia talking about how whale excrement has a significant affect on the marine ecology. No hard and fast numbers.
I got the touch screen working. It’s a hack, I’m not actually knowing when it hits certain text, I’m just hard coding the location of the buttons in my config file. Im reading the touch screen locations using the python-evdev package, which gives me very simple access to the button presses.
All the data I have now fits onscreen, but if I ever fill it up, or something, I’ll put some tabs and use the touch to switch. I’m going to use it for a while first.
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I put the code on github, but I am not going to support it, probably.
That is pretty dam cool. Laundry timers, octopi…touchscreen. Get some weather info and it is super deluxe.
You need a bigger power supply.
Yeah. The power supply is fine, but the screen is powered from the pi. If I use a powered hub, the touchscreen doesn’t show up in devices. I am thinking I need to power it separately.
Pretty cool though.
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What…all the cool kids have house computers. Mine will have a scale in my sock drawer so I never run out of clean socks.
The problem with a low tech solution, such as an IoT scale in your sock drawer is that it only tells you if you have socks or not. You really want a computer vision system to verify you actually have pairs of socks with matching colors. Once you have that it’s fairly simple to put a robotic arm in to sort them for you as well.
You are fancy aren’t you, matching colored socks… as long as they are clean I’ll wear them. HAHA. Relatively same length is important though or I feel of kilter all day.
Uh huh…
This is why I only have one kind of sock. I dont sort or pair them, just pull two out.
That was my system, an ex bought me different kind for variety and screwed up my whole system…and that is why she is an ex.
I have two kinds, shoe socks, which are all low cut and white, and boot socks, which are all black. They all just go in the drawer.
I keep my short socks in a basket by the garage door. You guys have a lot to learn from my socks system.
This is why my wife does the laundry…