Congratulations! And thank you.

I hoy Baikal.myself and sync to it via davx5 on android and via Thunderbird in ubuntu

I’m embarassed but very pleased that your example also taught me about set_conversation_response! I had been using tts.speak, which meant I had to define a specific media player, which wasn’t always I wanted to do. This is great!

That is HUGE! Thank you, @thegreekgeek@midwest.social! This makes customizing conversations from automations so much more powerful and flexible!

Yes, @thegreekgeek@midwest.social, now knowing that I can use sentence syntax in automations, I have built 1 automation to handle my specific needs. But each trigger is a hardcoded value instead of a “variable”. For example, trigger 1 is “sentence = ‘what is the date of my birthday’” and I trigger an action conditionally to speak the value of input_date.event_1 because I know that’s where I stored the date for “my birthday”.

What would be awesome is your 2nd suggestion: passing the name of the input_date helper through to the response with a wildcard. I can’t figure out how to do that. I’ve tried defining and using slots but I just don’t understand the syntax. Which file do I define the slots in, and what is the syntax?

Thanks, @thegreekgeek@midwest.social. I didn’t know you could use special sentence syntax in automations. That’s pretty helpful because an action can be conditional, and I think you can even make them conditional based on which specific trigger fired the automation.

It still seems odd that I’d have to make separate automations for each helper I want to address (or separate automation conditions for each), as opposed to having the spoken command have a “variable” and then use that variable to determine which input help to return the value of. But if that’s possible, maybe it’s just beyond my skill level.

You’re sharing your thoughts about the real life club online.

Smart Home Junkie’s method worked perfect! And it was quite easy and quick. Thanks for the referemce @paf@jlai.lu!

What about an approach where there’s a website to facilitate people donating to FOSS project, and all that website needs is a list of possible recipients of the FOSS project (e.g., app developers, libraries it uses). When I want to donate I go to this website and say “I want to donate to Lemmy”, and it shows me “Lemmy has these possible recipients: X, Y, …”. When I say “I want to donate $10” the website asks “should we distribute this evenly among all Lemmy recipients?” (which might be the default) or I have the option of unchecking some recipients or or assigning some recipients a higher percentage of my donation.

I finally got around to this and jailbreaking the iPad was as easy as you suggested. Thanks, @Aatube@kbin.social!

But I don’t see how to install a newer browser. Cydia and Zebra seem to be able to install themes and tweaks. How would I get them to install Firefox or Chrome? Also, how would I install linux on the ipad?

Photostructure is a strong starter, but development is slow and it’s still missing important features like sharing. Also, it’s not ooen source.

Immich seems great but doesn’t (yet) support digikam tags ( and since my 100,000 assets are tagged/organized via digikam, I don’t want to move to immich yet and have to start over).

PhotoPrism seemed pretty good, though it also doesn’t (yet) support digikam tags. Also, their self-hosted version doesn’t have all the features of their paid versions.

ABS works pretty well for me. Thanks!

The only way I see to sync play-state is if you use the ABS app or the web page. In ABS you can create an RSS feed for a podcast and you can subscribe to that feed in Antennapod, and the podcasts sync but their play-state doesn’t. So I’ll use the ABS on my phone instead of Antennapod. ABS is missing some nice features common in good podcast players, but it works well enough for me.

I checked out ABS a while ago, but i t didn’t fit my needs. I don’t remember why, now, though. I’ll check it out again. Thanks.

I should add that I’m not sold on AntennaPod, Podfetch, and GPodder. I think AntennaPod is a great app and I hope I can use it to do what I want here. Podfetch seems nice, with room to grow in terms of features and Ux. GPodder seems pretty terrible (though I hardly know it) but also seems to be the defacto standard in syncing podcasts and play-states (or perhaps the only game in town?).

But I’d ditch any or all of them if I was able to sync podcasts and play-states between devices. My only caveat is that the solution needs to be FOSS and self-host-able.

I love Homepage. It’s pretty, configurable, simple, and versatile.