If you use MacWhisper for voice-to-text dictation on your Mac, you’ve probably noticed the problem: when you hold down your dictation key, whatever audio is playing — Navidrome, Apple Music, YouTube, Spotify — bleeds into your microphone and garbles the transcription. MacWhisper actually has a built-in “Mute Audio During Dictation” toggle in its settings. Unfortunately, if you’re [ ] The post…
After updating to Tahoe (and this may be just coincidence) all of my cron jobs on my Mac starting erroring out. The only telling error I could find in one of my logs was: After double checking almost every permission setting I could find, I discovered that my iCloud Drive settings had switched to Optimize [ ] The post Tahoe, cron job failure & iCloud appeared first on Jim Willis .
[Update, Jan 2026 this approach was garbage. I installed the iCloud3 add on and have had much better luck. This is a bit more of a challenge to setup but WAY more reliable/flexible than the approach below.] I have a few home assistant automations that would really benefit from knowing who is home, who [ ] The post Location Tracking w/ iPhone and Home Assistant appeared first on Jim Willis .
well, not from scratch, but I laced a new rim to my front hub this week with a minimal tool setup using mostly zip ties on my fork for a truing stand and a cheap spoke tension meter though, to be fair, once I got the tension close I relied a lot upon the pitch [ ] The post Wheelbuilding appeared first on Jim Willis .
Sometimes Readwise resurfaces exactly the right quote from 6 years ago that you need today: Convenience is all destination and no journey. But climbing a mountain is different from taking the tram to the top, even if you end up at the same place. From this 2018 piece by Tim Wu in the nytimes The post appeared first on Jim Willis .
A few thoughts on my first multi-surface ride with the Joe Appaloosa. View from the Oceanic Bridge towards Red Bank. I hate the cold. I hate being cold. I hate going out in the cold. From November until May I am cold. Which is to say that for me to get out for a ride [ ] The post Ride Report 2025-02-08 appeared first on Jim Willis .
Here s a quick one-liner to tail -f home assistant logs from a docker image. I m sure there are better ways to do this but I got tired of typing a bunch of commands so finally figured out this one liner to save: Assumes your homeassistant docker image is called homeassistant then add this to .bashrc The post HomeAssistant Logs appeared first on Jim Willis .
To schedule the moOde library update to happen every night, you can use a cron job with the mpc update command. Here s how to set it up: This cron job will run the mpc update command at 00:00 (midnight) every day, which will update the moOde library[2]. Replace with the directory you want to update[2]. [ ] The post Update Moode Library w/ cron appeared first on Jim Willis .
iOS Users: Sharing this iOS shortcut despite its very limited use case. My dog has a longer/better attention span than I do. As a result, whenever I open Outlook on my iPhone to check my calendar, I immediately get distracted by whatever emails are at the top of my inbox and forget that I was [ ] The post Open Outlook for iOS to Calendar appeared first on Jim Willis .
Friendly warning for new users of #linkding. RTFM. This little gem is buried in the instructions: Note that the command above will store the linkding SQLite database in the container, which means that deleting the container, for example when upgrading the installation, will also remove the database. For hosting an actual installation you usually want [ ] The post appeared first on Jim Willis .
Mentioning here how helpful the native Mac OS app Yate is for cleaning up FLAC tags. The Mickey Hart mix versions of Workingman s were intermingled with the original album release and Yate was the right tool for the job to rename the album to Workingman s Dead (Mickey Hart Mix). https://2manyrobots.com/yate/ The post appeared first on Jim Willis .
Took me a little while to get this sorted out so I thought I’d document it here: Music Assistant supports grouping speakers so, briefly put what you’re doing here is just creating a group with two HomePods, one playing the left channel, the other the right channel. Key here is configuring the individual HomePods to [ ] The post Stereo HomePod Pair in Music Assistant appeared first on Jim Willis .
It feels like magic to have no open ports on my router and still be able to access all of myself hosted services. Jotting down a few notes here on how I approached this. First off, my primary server that I self-host all of my services on is always running a VPN so I don’t [ ] The post Tailscale, iOS, self-hosting and Home Assistant appeared first on Jim Willis .
“The Christmas lights won’t turn on, better power cycle the server.” Filed under: Sentences Unfamiliar to Thoreau.#homeassistant The post appeared first on Jim Willis .
Hard to imagine how long finding this answer would have taken before perplexity.ai: I have an ecobee 3 lite and an aquastatic, 2 taco valve boiler Can I use the ecobee to control one of the valves and my old thermostat for the other valve? The post appeared first on Jim Willis .