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A hackable analog phone system for your home

Major Hack’s Analog Redial project on Hackaday.io turns one or two old telephones, rotary or touch-tone, into a working phone system. The board supplies real dial tone and ringing, lets the phones call each other, and includes an answering machine. Dial codes are set up from a web page, and you can upload your own […]

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Rooting an Amazon Echo Dot

Julian Imhof, writing on andystechlab.dev, turned a 2018 Echo Dot 3 into a local Home Assistant voice satellite. Amazon cloud isn’t used in handling the voice commands. The work needs a Linux computer, an open-source project, and a USB cable soldered to the board. The Echo Dot doesn’t have a USB socket, so the USB […]

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This app lets you manage Nothing & CMF earbuds on Linux

Adjusting active noise cancellation (ANC) on Nothing or CMF earbuds means taking out your phone, opening the official mobile app and twiddling a setting there. EarA, a new open-source tool, aims to nix that palaver. It’s a GTK4 app (with a CLI for those who prefer the terminal), and lets you change settings on earbuds like the Nothing Ear (a) and CMF Buds 2, from your Linux desktop. Noise control/ANC levels can be switched with a click. There are toggles to disable personalised ANC and in-ear detection and use low latency. Gesture behaviours (on supported devices) can be set as […] You're read

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