Peter
Steenbergen
Open-Source Advocator & Innovator | Voice AI Developer | Co-Founder of OpenVoiceOS
Open-Source Advocator & Innovator | Voice AI Developer | Co-Founder of OpenVoiceOS
(Cross)Compiling software for Raspbian in a chroot environment.
By using the Raspbian distro on the Raspberry PI (or any debian / main stream distro for that matter on any embedded device), most of the software packages that you would want to install are available within the package manager of the distribution. Sometimes there some small / medium sized programs missing, or you want […]
[DiY] Home (Personal AI) Assistant (Installing HASS) – PART 8
On to installing Home Assistant on our device. Like with the KODI installation, this is mostly information widely available on the internet, yet again included within this series for compleness sake. So let’s get started with installing the dependencies if not yet installed. (Not really sure anymore, sorry for this) [bash] sudo apt-get install python3 […]
[DiY] Home (Personal AI) Assistant (Installing KODI) – PART 7
Next on the list is to install KODI on our device. This of course is optional, but as my device will end up close to the TV within the livingroom and I would like to have a great mediaplayer that plays all my offline content as well as a lot of online content (the upcoming […]
[DiY] Home (Personal AI) Assistant (Intermediate Roadmap) – PART 6
As mentioned in my previous blog post, this next blog post is about where we are at and what lies ahead. There are still so much things that I would like to do, create and / or implement at the Home Personal A.I. Assistant project. The next two items where already on the list and […]
Orbital Case – Some modding ideas
As already mentioned in the “ordering some goodies” blog post, the nice case I want to use as housing for our [DIY] HOME (PERSONAL AI) ASSISTANT project is the Orbital case from Polypodis – Germany. Now I have not yet ordered one as of yet as I still need to contact them about shipment possibilities […]
[DiY] Home (Personal AI) Assistant (Preparing the HDMI) – PART 5
Our Personal AI Assistant, of course is more then just a smart speaker. We have a HDMI port on the device, and as explained in my first post where I shared with you my vision about the Personal Assistant. We are going to use the HDMI port as well. A default install of Raspbian however […]
[DiY] Home (Personal AI) Assistant (Installing & Configuration) – PART 4
We have identified all the software requirements and we have ordered the goodies. Now it is time to start installing the different components and start the configuration of all different packages. After following this installation instruction we should have a basic system up and running with the latest MyCroft version using the ReSpeaker microphone array […]
MyCroft AI – Open Source Voice Assistant
MyCroft AI – The world’s first open source voice assistant was created and launched by a startup with the same name. The company MyCroft was set up in 2015 with the aim; “AI for everyone” open source installable on every piece of hardware from computers, to refrigerators, wearables, TVs, cars and so on. What is […]
Ordering some Goodies
As discussed in Part-2 of the [DIY] Home (Personal AI) Assistant blog post series we decided we needed some hardware to buy. Basically a Raspberry Pi, ReSpeaker 4-Mic Array and a nive looking case. Well, that’s what I did! Here is what I specifically ordered, where and a quick glance at all the parts. I […]