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this is a raspberry pi running the default OS connected to the big TV on the wall in sudoroom
presently a raspberry pi 4 running stock Raspbian 12 which is maybe not quite fast enough for Jitsi unfortunately.  Its purpose is to serve as a wall TV intercom for outside participation


its IP address is fixed at 100.64.64.27 (see https://sudoroom.org/wiki/network to be sure)
it used to be an orange fanless PC running linux mint 20 but that disappeared...


jake set it up
the big HITACHI TV on the east wall in sudoroom
[[File:telescreen1.jpg|400px|thumb|right|BigTV]]
The TV was originally bolted to the wall in late 2015, connected to an early raspberry pi, logged into IRC chat!


commands in ~/bin include speak, which makes espeak work despite the hardware bug that cuts off the beginning of speech when you don't use aplay
In 2022 it got a new computer and improved scripts to make it work.  Join the sudo-discuss list for more information!


another command is mainscreenturnon which unblanks the screensaver.
this node package serves a local webapp that connects to a Jitsi server, while watching the number of participants in order to keep the monitor turned on when people are in the room:
https://github.com/sudoroom/jitsi-telepresence-portal/blob/main/src/App.jsx


when sudobot (in irc) sees you type !say it will cause this computer to speak
commands in ~/bin include screen-on which unblanks the screensaver.  screen-q queries the present settings.
there is a cron job keeping the dpms timeout (hardware screensaver) set to 300 seconds
 
not working right now: when [[sudobot]] (in irc) sees you, type !say something and it will cause this computer to speak
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