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Still alive, although sick at the moment. On one front I’ve converted my Twitch bot Raphael to use a web source to play his responses. This was accomplished by hashing the mp3 file that is created, and making the hash of the file and it’s age available when checking for new captions to display. If the hash sent with the caption doesn’t match the last hash we saw and the mp3 file is less than thirty seconds old, it will play. To keep the mp3 file from being cached by the browser I had to add page, request, and added a date time string to the request for the mp3 file. The date time on the mp3 file request may be all that is needed but it is good to cover all bases. The closed caption page calls the Raphael web server every 200 ms to check for a new caption. There is another end point that was created whose sole job is to accept new captions from the main thread file a HTTP post.

Since the weather was suppose to be hotter today and it was suppose to storm throughout the day, I opted to work on my tech projects today. I started the day by streaming my work on Raphael bot, where I quickly was able to fix the issue where Raphael was ignoring me. Next I turned my attention to the scene switching command. After adding several variants to the list of commands I was able to get a demo working quite well on stream and pushed the changes to my GitHub Repository. With Raphael being in a good place, I turned my attention to my new flask based blog engine. After some troubleshooting I was able to find a problem, and figured out that part of the issue with my curl test commands was that I wasn’t saving the cookie that curl was getting from the login api call. With my curl issues solved, I turned to obscuring my blog user password when calling my curl commands. The last thing I worked on before turning my attention to a discord movie watch party was adding a file upload method to my blog API. With the hours of my Sunday winding down, I turned my attention to the documentation for Raphael since I noticed that someone had started following the repository.
Demo:

Before I finished my Juneteenth holiday break I posted the source code for Raphael bot out on github. I got the voice recognition working and responding in a timely manner. It even outputs it’s voice to obs studio. For some reason I was feeling brave and posted a tik-tok with the video . The next step will be to implement the streaming commands in a manner that allows customization. I also added a readme.md which still has a lot to be desired as I haven’t done any testing outside of Ubuntu 22.04. This weekend I randomly decided to make myself a url shortner for a new domain I acquired. Finished that up today.

I've been working on a Twitch bot for a couple weeks now. I've got transcription mostly working. So far, I have gotten chat messages going to Twitch chat, and the bot recognizes it's name. When it recognizes its name and calls ChatGPT to answer questions for the streamer.