- Florence & The Machine - High as hope
- Beach House - 7
- Ben Howard - Noonday Dream
- Mouse On Mars - Dimensional people
- Beak> - >>>
Alben des Jahres 2011
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Ich habe mich durch meine alten Blogposts (aus Wordpress Zeiten) gewühlt und alle meine "Alben des Jahres" aufgearbeitet (2012 & 2014 fehlen leider). Seit ich 2009 beim Plattentests.de Jahrespoll gewonnen habe, ist Bestof-Erstellung am Jahresende Pflicht :)
- Fleet Foxes - Helplessness blues
- TV On The Radio - Nine types of light
- The Rapture - In the grace of your love
- Feist - Metals
- Puscifer - Conditions of my parole
Alben des Jahres 2013
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Ich höre mich gerade durch meine Best-of Listen, interessant welche Alben mich nach all den Jahren noch begleiten und welche ich wieder entdecke, hier 2013:
- Boards Of Canada - Tomorrow's harvest
- The Naked And Famous - In rolling waves
- Basia Bulat - Tall tall shadow
- Queens Of The Stone Age - Like Clockwork
- Babyshambles - Sequel to the prequel
My road to a privacy voice assistant
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Since ages I have worked sporadicly on my home automation system. My first and biggest motivation was to get ONE button to start the music system and play my music. Meanwhile I got a bigger plan: TELLING the system to play music.
And it should not be a kitchen radio with a lousy speaker. I got the button-press-music working, and it does a lot:
- Switches on the power plug from the amp
- Switches on the amp with a IR-bridge
- It sends a WOL packet to the mediasystem (Kodi)
- It chooses a album from my media collection and sends a API call to Kodi to start playing
Right now it's buried into fhem (my old home automation software) and some custom python scripts. To be honest I don't know how it works anymore :)
So, to get the music played, I now only need to press ONE button :) But my plan is to tell the system "play music", just like Alexa in the tv spots. But of course, Alexa, Spotify and all the other cloud services are not an option as I want my system to be open source and to protect one's privacy.
That is why I've baked the Mycroft Mark II at Kickstarter and I plan to get my home automation setup ready for it! Here is what Mycroft wants to be:
The open answer to Amazon Echo and Google Home. Mycroft brings you the power of voice while maintaining privacy and data independence.
If all goes well Mycroft Mark II will be shipped by the end of the year. To get ready for it I plan to do a series of blog posts about it:
- Describe the system I use and what i have learned
- Hot to migrate from FHEM to Home-Assistant
- Home-Assistant as a voice assistant backend
- Integration of Kodi as a media center
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