Can I make AI email as me?

August 17, 2024
Can I make AI email as me?
This week, I decided it was high time to tinker with building something that could respond like me. I mean, who wouldn’t want a LLM that can mimic your witty email style? Usually, my experiments are done in an afternoon, but for this one I set aside a whole week…

Kasa Smart Devices and Home Assistant

August 10, 2024
Kasa Smart Devices and Home Assistant
When I moved into the new house, I decided I wanted to leave Philips Hue behind. The lights were too expensive and I wanted to incorporate more kinds of devices like switches into the system. At the same time, I wanted to reduce the number of Home Assistant integrations as…

Bring in the RTX4090

August 7, 2024
Bring in the RTX4090
I've been long in the tooth with the 2080TI in my main machine for awhile. I've been doing a lot more work training and using large language models lately, so I decided it was time for a serious upgrade to get more VRAM. I had to get a 1000w power…

Google Coral TPU Card

August 5, 2024
Google Coral TPU Card
Today I added some AI processing horsepower to my Frigate server. This little chip can handle object detection on 15 cameras without breaking a sweat. I am using the m.2 variety, but you can get a few variants from Google. I originally experimented with the USB version before adding the…

Home Automation Server – Tower 1

August 2, 2024
Home Automation Server – Tower 1
With the Frigate server complete, Tower 1 is officially out of space. Top to Bottom Home Assistant & Frigate Docker Server Ryzen 9 5900X, 64GB RAM, 8TB SSDs (2x2TB nvme, 2x2TB SATA), 16TB HDD RAID, Coral m.2 dual TPU Home Assistant Frigate Netdata Dozzle UPS Power Supply Cisco 24-Port Switch…

Pond BI

July 31, 2024
Pond BI
It started with "I should know the temperature of the pond I guess."

Dedicated Frigate Server

July 28, 2024
Dedicated Frigate Server
I've decided to use Frigate as the platform for AI object detection using my existing Amcrest IP cameras. It's working as a sidecar to Synology Surveillance Station as detection only. frigate-server 12-core Ryzen 5900X, 64GB RAM, 8TB SSD & 16TB HDD storage, Google Coral TPU, nVidia RTX3050GPU. Hosts Frigate and…

Bad Boy – Mowing Tech

July 7, 2024
Bad Boy – Mowing Tech
I thought I was making the switch to Electric wholesale when we moved in. It turns out gas zero-turn mowers are just higher quality and do a better job faster.