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Issue 249 (May 2019) - Voice controlled smart home

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It’s time to take back control of our smart homes. We’re building an open source, voice controlled smart home, based on open protocols and open software. From finding out what the weather’s going to be, to controlling your heating you can even integrate it with Google and Alexa, if you choose.

We Roundup the best disk cloning tools, explain how you can turn Arch into Ubuntu, create a stop-motion studio, get to grips with LibreOffice Draw and Audacity, stream games with Steam and loads more projects!

Features

Voice controlled smart home

Microft and OpenHAB (Jonni Bidwell)
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Arch tips

(Jonni Bidwell)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

Answers

Document scanning, Minolta pagepro driver, eternal shutdown, ZFS slow, Peppermint update, (Neil Bothwick)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

Interview: Human computer

Never one to turn down talking about high-powered programming over biscuits and coffee, Jonni Bidwell meets the multitalented Omoju Miller. (Jonni Bidwell)
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Coverdisc

DVD pages

Kali Linux 2019.1 (Jonni Bidwell)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

Hotpicks

DigiKam, Olive, Cygwin, LibreOffice, ODrive, Quaternion, Klogg, Underrun, Sandspiel, Hyperfine, Friture (Alexander Tolstoy)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

Tutorials

Stream Steam games to your Pi

(Alex Cox)
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Libreoffice Draw

Create diagrams and illustrations (Mike Bedford)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

Apache

Build a secure website (Stuart Burns)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

Audacity

Advanced audio recording (John Knight)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

Shotwell

Build a photo library (Nick Peers)
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Terminal

FFF file manager (Shashank Sharma)
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EasyGUI

Build a search system interface (Les Pounder)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

Pi camera

Stop-moton studio (Christian Cawley)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

Serial comms

Debug serial connections (Sean Conway)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

Coding Academy

Check your Git status

(John Schwartzman)
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Webassembly and Rust

(Mihalis Tsoukalos)
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Reviews

Disk cloning tools

Clonezilla, Deepin Clone, FOG project, G4L, WereSync (Shashank Sharma)
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News: News

Google has a meltdown, Nginx is worth a lot, PureOS converges, Firefox Send, Skype issues, EU router rules (Matt Hanson)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

News: Pi news

Quantum computing on the Pi, x86 on ARM, poor power on the Pi (Les Pounder)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

News: Kernel Watch

Kernel 5.0 released, contiguous memory issues (Jon Masters)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.