Brian Jackson

Anyone in my circle use Apple Health to store and sync their weight tracking and willing to test my iOS app before it's available? DM me your Apple ID and I'll add you to TestFlight. weighback.app

Update, I’ve got my Davis weather station data flowing into Home Assistant every few seconds instead of every 5 minutes. I did an end-run around their cloud service and I’m intercepting the equipment’s wireless signal using a USB radio and a Raspberry Pi. Pushed to HA over MQTT. #homeautomation

I’m in the “meteorology is my hobby” phase of my life. #davisinstruments #weather #hobbies

Bye bye Alexa, I’ve got a fully #selfhosted voice assistant! Whisper for speech-to-text, Llama 3.2 for the conversation agent, Kokoro-84M for text-to-speech, and #homeassistant connecting them all together behind their new Voice Preview device! All running on my home network on a mix of OS and GPUs

I converted my old Windows gaming PC into a Linux machine learning sandbox. Now I'm hosting my own LLM with Ollama and Open WebUI and Llama 3.2 performs well even with my 5 year old Radeon GPU. And I can access it from anywhere thanks to Tailscale so I might end my ChatGPT sub. TBD #selfhosted

Expanded our Twinkly lights to the mantle this year! First test pattern, had to channel K.I.T.T.

Spent some time today automating the strobing on my LEGO sets. Required Python to access my BroadLink IR/RF controller to learn the IR and RF codes for each LED set, export the codes in base64, and setup the script in Home Assistant to send the codes every time their USB power bank is turned on.