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Whether you're recording specifically for YouTube or making movies that may just end up there, this gear can help.

If your want your Amazon Fire tablet to work like a stock Android device, follow this guide to learn how to make this happen.

via Chordata Motion …The basic concept is a simplified interface for a Telegram voice chat with only a few (big) buttons: it should allow to easily and intuitively send and receive voice mess…

via PiMyLifeUp OMXPlayer is one of the best video players you can use on the Raspberry Pi, thanks to it being optimized for its hardware. The Kodi team originally developed this software as a testb…

There’s still time to get next level with your decorations! Check out Chris Crocker-White’s guide on balena blog for the how: Build and animate your own web and remote-controllable ligh…

Create voice assistant like JARVIS using Python programming language

The Raspberry Pi is one of the most popular brands of single-board computers. Part of the reason for this popularity is the massive number of unique and interesting projects that people have built using Raspberry Pi. Several Opensource.com authors have used Raspberry Pi in various projects and provided instructions so others can recreate their projects. Here are the ten most popular Raspberry Pi articles published by Opensource.com in 2021. I hope they inspire you as you tinker with your own Raspberry Pi. [OS_EMBEDDED_MENU_RIGHT:]

Welcome to this course. Learn SCADA hands-on by developing your own interfaces for different systems and control Your Raspberry Pi Based Device. In this course, you're going to learn about SCADA by creating graphical interfaces that you can...

An open-source monitoring system with a dimensional data model, flexible query language, efficient time series database and modern alerting approach.

Now install Docker on the server. Since we have deployed a home server to run services for home automation, we need to be able to monitor and be alerted if there is any abnormal behaviours, like system or service outage.

This guide details all the steps needed to install and configure the Blackbox Exporter with Prometheus.

Full monitoring stack — part 1.

A Backblaze survey revealed 54% of people said they know someone or have themselves recently lost data. Find out what you can do to prevent data loss.

How to backup your Synology NAS using Backblaze B2 cloud backup service. Installing Backblaze on Synology step-by-step, quick and easy!

Mycroft AI is a virtual assistant application that can respond to verbal requests and complete tasks such as searching the Internet for some information you need, or downloading your favorite podcast, and so on. It's a fine piece of open source software that, unlike similar software from companies in the business of harvesting personal data, provides privacy and platform flexibility.

If you're a livestreamer, video creator or anything like that then the Elgato Stream Deck seems like an incredible useful bit of kit. However, it doesn't have official Linux support. Not so much a problem now.

Libraries to control Elgato Stream Deck

radio-active is Python software to listen to internet radio stations on the terminal. It's free and open source software.

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In this post we are going to see how to install Home Assistant on Proxmox VE or other devices.

I edit a lot of text files. Sometimes it's code. Other times it's the written word for role-playing games (RPGs), programming books, or general correspondence. Sometimes it's nice to make a change, but for my collaborator to compare my change with what they originally had written. Many people default to office suites, like LibreOffice, using comments or change tracking features.