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Automation

school-morning briefing

A spoken morning briefing and leave-by countdown played through the in-wall speakers.

built Oct 2026 updated Oct 2026 Voice in, voice out

how it works

aiohttp service with TTS routed to a Bluetooth receiver.

Automation: Something that runs on a schedule by itself.

The code for this one lives in a private repo. This page explains the idea so you can build your own.

familytts

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