# blog.jacq.cc

> Step-by-step guides and notes for hardware, home automation and Linux projects, from a house where everything is self-hosted.

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## Guides

- [Dictate on KDE Plasma Wayland, and tidy the text with OpenCode Go](https://blog.jacq.cc/guides/local-voice-dictation-kde-wayland.md): Handy and NVIDIA's Parakeet turn speech into text on the laptop's GPU, and ydotool types it into Wayland apps. A small local proxy lets Handy's clean-up step use an OpenCode Go subscription, which refuses Handy's requests on its own. Only text leaves the laptop, never audio. (updated 2026-10-15)
- [Run Jellyfin on Home Assistant OS for old TVs and Fire TV sticks](https://blog.jacq.cc/guides/jellyfin-home-assistant-os-old-tvs.md): Jellyfin as a Home Assistant OS app on a Raspberry Pi 5, serving older Samsung TVs over DLNA and Fire TV sticks through the Jellyfin app. Includes the bind-address fix that makes DLNA visible. (updated 2026-10-14)
- [Monitor a Solplanet battery locally in Home Assistant, with fault emails you can trust](https://blog.jacq.cc/guides/solplanet-battery-home-assistant-local.md): Read a Solplanet hybrid inverter and battery straight from its Ai-Dongle, with no cloud in the path, and build a fault email that survives the dongle's quirks: one-poll "Wait" blips, dropouts and a rate limit. (updated 2026-10-14)
- [Use the Tello's GameSir T1d controller as a Linux gamepad](https://blog.jacq.cc/guides/gamesir-t1d-linux-gamepad.md): The T1d speaks its own Bluetooth LE protocol instead of HID, so no OS sees it as a gamepad. A Python bridge turns it into a virtual Xbox 360 pad, with calibration for worn sticks. (updated 2026-10-12)
- [GE-RCV1: open the garage with the gate remote](https://blog.jacq.cc/guides/ge-rcv1-garage-gate-remote.md): Wire a 1-channel GE-RCV1 receiver to a Steel-line SD1200 garage motor, so the Richmond gate remotes open the garage too. Includes the receiver's real wiring, which its manual doesn't show. (updated 2026-10-11)

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