Mycroft is still alive—two RPI students are helping with Minimy. Pipewire and mpc/mpd play music - we’re using auto indexing of music files so Minimy does not have to bother. redis is the message bus which seems less complex than the last. Piper does TTS on every box using a command line call. There’s a “hub and spoke” model where the hub will be the fastest box in the building. Whisper does STT with the “use first answer from the hub (remote) or spoke (local)” model from Mycroft. So far, there’s no need for Internet access. Ollama does general question answering. We want to access the Internet only when the AI bots can’t answer a question like “who won the football game?”. We’re hoping to create a short video soon …
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