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Using a Google Nest Wifi point as a smart speaker only (no mesh)

Yes, this actually works. The Nest Wifi point can be set up as a standalone Google Assistant / Cast speaker — much like a Nest Audio — without joining a Nest Wifi mesh and without broadcasting any Wi-Fi of its own. It joins your existing Wi-Fi (any router, doesn't need to be Google) like any other Cast device.

A lot of community advice insists this isn't possible, that you need a separate Google Home structure, or that it only fails with a "cannot connect to router" error. That advice is incomplete. The procedure below has been confirmed to work; the key is declining the pairing prompt with the base router, which exposes a "set up as a standalone speaker" branch that the setup flow otherwise hides.

Credit to the original discussion that documented this approach: https://www.reddit.com/r/GoogleWiFi/comments/mb173e/google_nest_wifi_point_as_speaker_only/.

What you need

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Playing audio and TTS through Reolink cameras via Home Assistant

How to make a Reolink camera's speaker play arbitrary audio files or TTS announcements from Home Assistant — usable as an intercom, alarm, doorbell follow-up, or trespasser deterrent.

This uses ONVIF two-way audio over HA + go2rtc. No Reolink cloud, no Reolink mobile app, no vendor SDK — the camera just needs an ONVIF backchannel, which every modern Reolink model with a speaker has.

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Hardware

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#Requires -Version 5.1
<#
.SYNOPSIS
    Converts all MP3 files in a folder to Wwise Encoded Media (.wem) files.

.DESCRIPTION
    Uses ffmpeg to convert MP3 to WAV, then WwiseConsole.exe convert-external-source
    to produce .wem files.

    PREREQUISITES:

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Description

A standalone, single-file PHP tool to easily delete SwitchBot API Webhooks.

This script solves two common pain points when working with the SwitchBot API:

1. CORS Errors: It acts as a server-side proxy, bypassing browser Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) restrictions.
2. Authentication Complexity: It automatically generates the required HMAC-SHA256 signature (sign), nonce, and timestamp (t) headers required for SwitchBot API v1.1.

Features

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<#
.SYNOPSIS
    Registers one or more user‐level applications to launch automatically at logon.

.DESCRIPTION
    ScheduleAutoStart.ps1 creates Scheduled Tasks under “\ScheduleAutoStart\” for each
    entry defined in the `$apps` array.  By default it installs a task to launch Crafty
    at the current user’s interactive logon.  It can optionally be extended (uncomment
    the Duplicati line) to auto‑launch additional utilities.

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<#
.SYNOPSIS
    Installs (or uninstalls) a headless RDP‐at‐startup scheduled task and optional per‑user logon tasks.

.DESCRIPTION
    When run without -Disable, this script:
      • Ensures it’s elevated to Administrator.  
      • Stores (or reuses) RDP credentials in Windows Credential Manager.  
      • Downloads the FreeRDP client (if not already present) to .\bin\sdl3‑freerdp.exe.  
      • Registers a “HeadlessRdp_Bootstrap” task under \ScheduleAutoLogon\ that, at system startup,

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<?php

/* 
Backup script for trakt.tv (API v2).

Live demo: https://darekkay.com/blog/trakt-tv-backup/
*/

// create a Trakt app to get a client API key: http://docs.trakt.apiary.io/#introduction/create-an-app
$apikey = "CLIENT_API_KEY";

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<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteRule (.*) ./index.php?id=$1 [L]
</IfModule>

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import unittest

import pytest
from unittest import TestCase


# http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1323455/python-unit-test-with-base-and-sub-class


class BaseTestCases:

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using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Runtime.InteropServices;
using System.Runtime.InteropServices.ComTypes;
using System.Threading;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using EnvDTE80;
using EnvDTE90a;