feat(beefcake): Wyoming voice with haproxy failover to bigtower #687

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Runs the Wyoming voice stack (STT/TTS/wake) for beefcake's Home Assistant behind a haproxy primary→backup failover.

Primary: bigtower's idle Ryzen 5 5600 — far faster at faster-whisper than beefcake's loaded 2013 Xeon (~5s → ~1s per utterance). Already runs the identical Wyoming stack.
Backup: beefcake's local Wyoming, shifted to 1031x, always-on.
haproxy owns the loopback ports HA connects to (10300/10200/10400), health-checks bigtower, and transparently fails over to the local backup when bigtower is unreachable — flipping back when it returns. HA's config entries stay pointed at 127.0.0.1, so failover is invisible to HA.

Also fixes durability: the "Wyoming native on beefcake" commit here was pushed but never merged, so beefcake kept losing Wyoming on each deploy from main.

Requires bigtower to expose its Wyoming ports — pairs with lytedev/lytebot-alexa#17.

Validated: haproxy -c on the generated config passes; nixosConfigurations.beefcake evaluates.

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Runs the Wyoming voice stack (STT/TTS/wake) for beefcake's Home Assistant behind a haproxy primary→backup failover. - **Primary:** bigtower's idle Ryzen 5 5600 — far faster at faster-whisper than beefcake's loaded 2013 Xeon (~5s → ~1s per utterance). Already runs the identical Wyoming stack. - **Backup:** beefcake's local Wyoming, shifted to 1031x, always-on. - haproxy owns the loopback ports HA connects to (10300/10200/10400), health-checks bigtower, and transparently fails over to the local backup when bigtower is unreachable — flipping back when it returns. HA's config entries stay pointed at 127.0.0.1, so failover is invisible to HA. Also fixes durability: the "Wyoming native on beefcake" commit here was pushed but never merged, so beefcake kept losing Wyoming on each deploy from main. Requires bigtower to expose its Wyoming ports — pairs with lytedev/lytebot-alexa#17. Validated: `haproxy -c` on the generated config passes; `nixosConfigurations.beefcake` evaluates. 🤖 Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code)

lytedev added 2 commits

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feat(beefcake/HA): run Wyoming (STT/TTS/wake) natively on beefcake

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Moves faster-whisper/piper/openwakeword off bigtower onto beefcake, bound to
loopback (HA is co-located; mic satellites talk to HA, not Wyoming). The ML
closure isn't on cache.nixos.org and beefcake's nix wedges substituting it, so
deploys build on dragon and pull via nix.h.lyte.dev Harmonia over the LAN.

feat(beefcake/HA): front Wyoming with haproxy primary→backup failover

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STT is CPU-bound, and beefcake's 2013-era Xeon under steady CI/k3s load runs
faster-whisper at ~5s/utterance. bigtower has an idle Ryzen 5 5600 already
running the identical Wyoming stack, so make it the primary and keep beefcake's
local Wyoming as an always-on backup.

haproxy owns the loopback ports HA connects to (10300/10200/10400),
health-checks bigtower, and transparently fails over to the local backup
(shifted to 1031x) when bigtower is unreachable — flipping back when it returns.
HA's config entries stay pointed at 127.0.0.1, so failover is invisible to HA.

Requires bigtower to expose its Wyoming ports on the LAN — see
services.lytebot.voice.openFirewall in the lytebot-alexa flake.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

lytedev merged commit 90bb611031 into main

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lytedev deleted branch beefcake-home-assistant

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