I don’t think I’m getting it right, but isn’t it just a matter of checking the character set in the query and determining if it belongs to English or Devnagri part of Unicode and applying transliteration if the query is in English.

If you are looking for a self hosted Devnagri transliteration tool, look into AI4Bharat, a tool developed by IIT Madras.

Yeah, I’m not wishing for two pointers either. The current setup with Remote Mouse software allows two devices to move the single pointer at the same time but since kdeconnect software allows sharing of files and notifications from phone onto the PC, I’m not sure how connecting two devices will work. Guess I’ll figure it out as I set it up.

I came across a reference to kdeconnect while reading related stuff but I really looked it up after your comment. I’m using Debian on my machine and am currently using free version of Remote Mouse which allows very limited actions without posting. Kdeconnect sounds like it could take care of that and more. I just hope it supports two person controlling the same PC.

This will be in complimentary to a physical button IR remote that I’m aiming to implement after this post. Thanks.

I’ll have to read up on what you mean using IR remotes to control a Pi through HDMI HEC. The computer I’m using has an DP output that I’ve used an adapter to feed to my TV HDMI. So I may not be able to use your setup. But it sounds novel and interesting so I would definitely like to learn more. Thanks.

That sounds like a good approach. I’ll try and explore this. Thanks.

I’m setting up a media PC for my TV using refurbished hardware. The biggest pain right now is controlling the interface. I got one of those cheap keyboards with trackpads but they stopped working in a month. Reading this post makes me wonder if I can reuse one of the old IR remotes lying around in my home. Generating shortcut keys and binding them might be easy but what can be done for text/voice to text input?

May I have a large container of coffee right now?

Thanks, I’ve installed it and I’m going to give it a try.

Could you please share a link to the app with OCR based on tessaract 5

No, that’s not it. I’m comfortably safe at 8 gigs.

That’s the thing, I’m not closing the application on Android. Just switching to another application.

No, I got that but like I said, it is just a force of habit for me to use private window during my web use. I need to use internet on multiple systems as part of my work and it’s just become natural for me to open a private session to search and do stuff and not to leave any login sessions open by mistake.

But I reading the replies makes me realise that it must be android’s aggressive battery saving tricks that kills Firefox active private sessions. But it is sad that I’m noticing this only for Firefox while Brave browser is exempt. Maybe because it is chromium based.

I’m trying hard to make Firefox my main browser on my phone. Out of habit, I browse in Private Mode and bookmark stuff I want to remember. Every so often though, Firefox closes the open private tabs when switch between apps. There is no real way to replicate this so I can submit a bug report. I’m not sure what I can do about it.

Good of them to bring the add ons though, I’ll keep persisting with the fox.

Currently, I’m trying to find a lazy (for me) way out. I’m learning to bake the lighting on objects and figuring out ways to iteratively do it for all objects of choice (buildings) in a scene automatically. Thereafter, i hope to do image processing on the unwrapped light baking maps to detect the desired colors. It should be possible to crop these images to detect light on individual faces and or find the percentage of area exposed too.

If this does not work out, I’ll take the progressively difficult ways suggested in the thread as I learn and become comfortable with what you guys have kindly given me pointers for.

Thank you very much. This gives me ample pointers to go out and learn.

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Thank you, I’ll explore along these lines.

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I totally get your point as to how it may be faster. Let me read up about ambient occlusion and since I’ve never worked with Houdini, whether I can implement the same using any of the tools that I’m conversant with. Thank you for making me aware of this.

Thank you for taking the time to try it out. For now just finding of any part of the building can see any part of the park should suffice.

As I mentioned in one of my other replies, I’m mainly a GIS person and a Blender n00b even though I’ve been calling myself that for a couple years now.

I saw some videos on geometry nodes and raycast nodes and my faith in Blender as a solution to the problem has become stronger. I’d never really seen the spreadsheets in Blender and mention of attributes makes me wonder if it is the same concept as in GIS where each feature (like object in Blender) has some properties associated with it. I have some exposure to Python, though not as part of Blender.

I think that a good academic paper and a tool could be developed out of it and it has underscored my conviction that the divide between gaming related tools and GIS is at the cusp of merging.

Maybe this will serve as my motivation to learn Blender though I want to skip the unnecessary parts for now and just want to learn stuff that will help me learn and tackle this problem. Maybe you could give me a broad roadmap of what to learn.

Also, please share a minimum working example of the thing that you tried if possible. If you are able to experiment further, I’ll be delighted to learn.

Thanks again.