Tuesday was Not A Great Day. I had forgotten to take my bedtime pills, including my daily anti-anxiety, and that manifested in some miscellaneous Unhappiness (see also the Dad Situation) and when Belovedest got home and mentioned that the corner of the kitchen where Stuff tends to Collect was making them Unhappy, I turned into my best impression of a popsicle left out in the rain but managed to yell about a lot of things that were bothering me and then we started tackling the corner together and they ordered a new tub of Quick Blue because my hair isn't the proper color and hasn't been since like July and that's a convenient physical manifestation of my attention span.

Plus I think there was a discussion on recreational priorities and how we handle them differently: ( Read more... )


So in the vein of mentioning things that were getting to me a bit, I pointed Belovedest back at the Home Assistant, because it had lost its ability to use the microphone for some unfathomable reason. (huh, I wonder if it's one of those things where it's expecting to use Driver A for Item A but it's dealing with Item B now? or maybe not.) So Belovedest said, slowly, that there was one computer-device in the living room that they hadn't tried to get it working on (they've been poking at it now and then) and that was the Linux box that usually drives Screen B, as a background process.

They were up half the night but the snake-shaped microphone is working to take Home Assistant input now. "Porcupine" is the current wake-up word, but it can be set to a number of things including the commands for other assistants. (Likely so you can swap out the assistant that your non-technical relative is using without them having to re-learn all the commands.)

I'm still waiting for Sengled to expose their rainbow setting outside the app.