I let the OpenClaw AI control my house

Hi everyone!

You’ve probably heard about OpenClaw, the AI framework that blew up on GitHub a few weeks ago and was just acquired by OpenAI.

I tested connecting OpenClaw to Gladys to try out the possibilities, and it’s really impressive :slight_smile:

I tell you more in the video:

Note: I don’t recommend installing OpenClaw on your Gladys server; it’s still early-stage software that touches a bit of everything and has been widely criticized for security flaws. For this test, I deployed OpenClaw on a VM in the Cloud to stay in an isolated environment :locked_with_key:

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I think it’s a good video / a good title to attract people to Gladys, nice job :wink:

Personally I wouldn’t go near OpenClaw ^^ too intrusive for me!

One small remark, especially if you keep making videos: I find your mic’s sound very muffled. I watched the video at home on my TV (which has 5.1 sound) — there was A LOT of midrange and almost no highs, so the audio wasn’t very clear; I’d already noticed that on other videos.

Either you need to adjust your mic… or plan on getting a higher-quality mic in my opinion :wink:

That’s the goal! I’m going to continue with lots of topics in the same style, but always within different algorithmic bubbles from the connected home, to reach lots of people :slight_smile:

You’re not the first to complain about it, but I admit I’m a bit stuck on what to do, I have a Rode SmartLav+ mic :

Then in editing, I boost the sound via this option in my ScreenStudio software, which normalizes the volume and I find it boosts the sound well :

But I think the problem comes from my room, I’m in an office where there’s quite a bit of echo, and I think that’s what’s making it not sound great…

Personally, I don’t think it comes from the room — what matters above all is the microphone.

And in the end I suspect your software, when normalizing the level, doesn’t just do that but also over-compresses the sound. This causes all the frequencies to be buried in the midrange.

I can’t tell you how to fix that since I don’t know this software or its settings, but in my opinion that’s where the problem lies.

For the previous video, that was fine for me. But for this one, I don’t know if you changed your settings, but the sound was really muffled; I had to strain to hear.
I had to restart the beginning of the video three times before understanding that they were clips, because I couldn’t understand what you were saying.