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Windows 10/11 - Line6 Toneport XU2 Installation

2024-10-28T15:28:00.003+10:00

Quick dump of steps.
Create an account at Line6 - Download the following:
Main two:
GearBox v3.72 Installer
Line 6 Drivers v4.2.7.7 Installer.exe

If necessary you can install the Pod Farm 2 as well.

When installing GearBox - pay attention and deselect all of the drivers as part of the install.
Installing the drivers here breaks the ASIO driver.

Once gearbox is installed, run the Line6 Driver file - Install all necessary drivers, for simplicity I selected all.

Plug in your Line6 Device, windows should pick it up now with the new drivers.

Dual Device Recording - In the Gearbox application, on the left make sure Inst & MIC1 is selected (or your relevant setup)

In your recording application (EG Adobe Audition) in Audio Hardware ensure you have selected ASIO for the device type and then the Line6 Device - this will then allow you to do multi track recording.

In the application you must add a new track per device, there will be a ... section which allows you to select the input.

Fiddle with the options to work out which line your device is coming in on..

For Audacity, you must download and compile the ASIO version yourself - apparently due to licensing. There are instructions on how to do this on the Audacity website.

Home Assistant Scrape Down Detector

2024-08-06T08:51:00.010+10:00

Scrape DD Status Pages:
In resource set your url:
https://downdetector.com.au/status/optus/

Method: GET
Headers: User-Agent: >-
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like
Gecko) Chrome/58.0.3029.110 Safari/537.3

In the sensor I've configured:
{{Service}}OverallStatus:
Select: .h2.entry-title
Index: 0
Value Template (to remove spaces): {{ value | regex_replace('\s+', ' ') | trim() }}

{{Service}}ReportedProblems1:
Select: .col-4
Index: 0
Value Template (to remove spaces): {{ value | regex_replace('\s+', ' ') | trim() }}

{{Service}}ReportedProblems2:
Select: .col-4
Index: 1
Value Template (to remove spaces): {{ value | regex_replace('\s+', ' ') | trim() }}

{{Service}}ReportedProblems3:
Select: .col-4
Index: 2
Value Template (to remove spaces): {{ value | regex_replace('\s+', ' ') | trim() }}

Home Assistant - xDrip+ Carelink, Dexcom etc Integration

2024-05-14T15:32:00.005+10:00

Post to be updated.

Requires:
Virutal Machine of Android.
xDrip+ installed
xDrip web portal thingy enabled

Home assistant rest config in configuration.yaml (however you might actually be able to use the scrape feature too?)
- platform: rest
    name: xDrip
    resource_template: http://{{VM_IP}:17580/pebble
    scan_interval: 60
    headers:
      api-secret: {{API_SECRET_FROM_xDrip}}
    value_template: "{{ value_json['bgs'][0]['sgv'] }}"

Home Assistant - NRL State of Origin Scrape and Automation

2024-05-14T13:51:00.004+10:00

IDEA: Have smart lights flash the colour of the team that scores.

Solution:
Using the scrape integration, you can extract data from a website and create sensors to action upon.

Configuration:
I assume you will need cloud services enabled?
I found the following website easiest to extract data from: https://leagueunlimited.com/live-updates

Add an integration from "Settings - Devices & Services"

Choose Scrape:

Enter the match url EG: https://leagueunlimited.com/live-update/show/3859/24061

It will then ask for sensor data - I have configured the following:
Home Team

Away Team (note the changed of index reference):

Home team score:

Away team score (note change of index reference):

Scripts:
I prefer to use scripts for features that i'll probably re-use. So i created a script to flash my lights blue and another one to flash it red. It alternates between white and the colour. Note: I also have all my lights in a group.

alias: Flash Lights Blue
sequence:
- parallel:
      - repeat:
          count: 5
          sequence:
            - service: light.turn_on
              metadata: {}
              data:
                brightness_pct: 100
                kelvin: 6500
              target:
                entity_id: light.all_house_lights
            - delay:
                hours: 0
                minutes: 0
                seconds: 1
                milliseconds: 0
            - service: light.turn_on
              metadata: {}
              data:
                rgb_color:
                  - 0
                  - 0
                  - 255
                brightness_pct: 100
              target:
                entity_id: light.all_house_lights
            - delay:
                hours: 0
                minutes: 0
                seconds: 1
                milliseconds: 0
- service: light.turn_on
    metadata: {}
    data:
      brightness_pct: 100
      kelvin: 6500
    target:
      entity_id: light.all_house_lights
mode: single

Automation:
I've disabled the scraper to automatically update, apparently it will only update every 10 mins by default. So I've created an automation to force refresh every 5 seconds (not sure if this is too much?)

alias: 2024_SOO_G1_Updates
description: ""
trigger:
- platform: time_pattern
    seconds: "10"
condition: []
action:
- service: homeassistant.update_entity
    target:
      entity_id:
        - sensor.away_score
        - sensor.home_score
        - sensor.away_team_score
        - sensor.home_team_score
    data: {}
mode: single

And then the light automation - I originally had this in one automation but seemed to have issues with it following the correct logic. So split it out into individual automations.

Batch Convert Files using FFMPEG via BASH

2023-07-05T08:12:00.005+10:00

#!/bin/bash

# Check if the 'converted' folder exists, create it if it doesn't

if [ ! -d "converted" ]; then

mkdir "converted"

# Get the number of CPU cores

cpu_cores=$(nproc)

# Loop through all the MP4 files in the current directory

for file in *.mp4; do

# Check if the file is an actual file (not a directory or symlink)

if [ -f "$file" ]; then

# Extract the filename without extension

filename=$(basename "$file" .mp4)

# Check if the file already has an encoder information using ffprobe

encoder_info=$(ffprobe -v error -select_streams v:0 -show_entries stream_tags=encoder -of default=noprint_wrappers=1:nokey=1 "$file")

if [ -n "$encoder_info" ]; then

echo "Skipping conversion for file: $file (already encoded)"

continue

# Check if the converted file already exists in the 'converted' folder

if [ -f "converted/${filename}.mp4" ]; then

echo "Skipping conversion for file: $file (already converted)"

continue

# Use ffmpeg to convert the file to H.265/HEVC format with reduced video quality and fewer threads

ffmpeg -i "$file" -c:v libx265 -crf 28 -preset medium -b:v 2M -threads 2 "converted/${filename}.mp4"

# Optional: If you want to delete the original file after conversion, uncomment the line below

# rm "$file"

done

echo "All conversions and moves completed."

Medtronic Guardian Sensor 3 Connect Transmitter on Android with Better Alerts

2020-09-29T10:44:00.004+10:00

*Please note*: This is a workaround only, you must not rely on this to make medical / dosing / diabetes decisions. It is only provided to assist you with getting alarms from the Guardian Connect app system. Ultimately this should be something implemented by Medtronic themselves. I am not able to provide constant troubleshooting or assistance and will only check on this post occasionally.

The Guardian connect app is seriously lacking with regards to notifications. The app does not allow the configuration of different alert tones or volumes. We changed from Dexcom and were seriously regretting our decision because of this fact. Please note that if you have a transmitter that pairs directly to a medtronic pump, this system will NOT work for you, you will need to look into using nightscout instead.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.medtronic.diabetes.guardianconnect&hl=en_AU

After getting the transmitter paired to an android phone (Samsung Galaxy S7 running android 8.0.0) I looked into using an app called Tasker to get better notifications. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.dinglisch.android.taskerm&hl=en_AU

For this setup to work, you must also install the AutoNotification plugin.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.joaomgcd.autonotification&hl=en_AU

Essentially what this setup does, is monitors the constant notification window shown when you pull down from the top of the screen. When that notification updates Tasker will read it and do something with is based on the rules setup.

I have setup the following:

Current BGL: This reads the current BGL and adds it to a calendar, this calendar syncs online and I can then monitor the BGL's using a different phone / device / apple watch.

Low now: Configured to alarm when the popup says Low Sensor Glucose

Low Prediction: Configured to alarm when the popup says Low Predicted

Falling: Configured to alarm when the popup says Fall Alert

Rising: Configured to alarm when the popup says Rise Alert

High prediction: Configured to alarm when the popup says High Predicted

High now: Configured to alarm when the popup says High Sensor Glucose

Sensor Issue: Configured to alarm when the popup says Change Sensor

Not Reading: Configured to alarm when the popup says Glucose not available

Calibration: Configured to alarm when the popup says Calibrate by.

I have backed up my tasker configuration. You can find it here:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Wtt92E4ogou1LDyMJRy-2dhlutLEhXR9?usp=sharing

If you use my backup please ensure that you go into the task settings and change the audio file to something of your own. I suggest looking online for free MP3 sounds that you like.

Ubuntu - Minecraft Bedrock Server Startup & Backup scripts

2020-05-31T23:46:00.004+10:00

Set these up via cron at your desired times - probably better ways to do this but it works.

Run Script
#!/bin/bash -V
SERVICE="bedrock_server"
TODAYDATE=$(date +"%Y-%m-%d %H:%M")
MYDIR="/home/administrator/minecraft/mc.log"
if pgrep -x "$SERVICE" >/dev/null
then
echo "$TODAYDATE $SERVICE is running" >> $MYDIR
else
echo "$TODAYDATE $SERVICE NOT RUNNING - will now start" >> $MYDIR
cd /home/administrator/minecraft/
screen -d -m -S Bedrock /bin/bash -c "LD_LIBRARY_PATH=. ./bedrock_server"
fi

Backup Script

#!/bin/bash
SERVICE="bedrock_server"
TODAYDATE=$(date +"%Y-%m-%d %H:%M")
BACKUPDATE=$(date +"%Y-%m-%d")
BACKUPLOG="/home/administrator/minecraftbackup/backup.log"

PID=$(pgrep -x "$SERVICE")
SRCDIR="/home/administrator/minecraft/"
DSTDIR="/home/administrator/minecraftbackup/"
DSTZIP=$DSTDIR/nas/minecraft/

if pgrep -x "$SERVICE" >/dev/null
then
echo "$TODAYDATE $SERVICE is running" >> $BACKUPLOG
screen -S Bedrock -p 0 -X stuff "stop^M"

cp $SRCDIR $DSTDIR -r >> $BACKUPLOG
sh $SRCDIR/run.sh >> $BACKUPLOG
sudo mount -o hard,nolock HOSTNAME:/volume1/BackupDir /home/administrator/minecraftbackup/nas/

zip -r $DSTZIP/$BACKUPDATE $DSTDIR/minecraft >> $BACKUPLOG
rm $DSTDIR/minecraft -R >> $BACKUPLOG
fi

Ubuntu - Speedtest Graph Plotting from command line.to png

2020-03-25T21:40:00.003+10:00

Before you start:
install pip if you haven't already and gnuplot
Use pip to install speedtest

Create a simple bash script
Input the following into it, by default the speedtest-cli csv output writes the time in UTC, ive put the echo in to add the timestamp using the system clock:

#!/bin/bash
echo `date +"%d-%m-%yT%H:%M"`,`/usr/local/bin/speedtest-cli --csv` >> /tmp/speedtest.csv
gnuplot /tmp/gnuplotsp.plt

Create a file called gnuplotsp.plt under /tmp/

Inside of this file input this:

set title "Speedtest Results"

set key autotitle columnhead

set xlabel "Time"

set xdata time

set timefmt "%d-%m-%YT%H:%M:%S"

set xtics format "%d-%m-%Y\n%H:%M:%S" rotate by -30

set ylabel "Measured Speed"

set ytics format "%.2s %cBit/s" nomirror

set yrange [0:*]

set style line 102 lw 3 lt rgb "#fc1100"

set style line 103 lw 4 lt rgb "#0400fc"

set style line 101 lc rgb 'blue' pt 9

set y2label "Ping"

set y2tics format "%.0f ms" nomirror

set y2range [0:30]

set grid

set datafile separator ","

set terminal png size 1920, 800

set output "/tmp/speedtest.png"

plot "/tmp/speedtest.csv" using 1:7 axis x1y2 ls 101, '' using 1:8 with lines ls 103, '' using 1:9 with lines ls 102

AutoIt Scroll Win10 Virtual Desktops Loop

2018-05-15T13:16:00.001+10:00

To add or subtract desktops just change the value of $NumOfDesktops

Script here

Start()

$NumOfDesktops = 5

Func Start()
For $i = 1 to $NumOfDesktops
        GoRight()
    Sleep(100)
Next
BacktoStart()
EndFunc

Func BacktoStart()
For $x = 1 to $NumOfDesktops
        GoLeft()
    Sleep(100)
Next
Start()
EndFunc

Func GoRight()
    Send("{LWINDOWN}")
    Send("{CTRLDOWN}")
    Send("{Right}")
    Send("{CTRLUP}")
    Send("{LWINUP}")
    Sleep(300000)
EndFunc

Func GoLeft()
    Send("{LWINDOWN}")
    Send("{CTRLDOWN}")
    Send("{Left}")
    Send("{CTRLUP}")
    Send("{LWINUP}")
    Sleep(300000)
EndFunc

AutoIt Photo Import Copy Tool

2015-11-08T21:34:00.001+10:00

#include <FileConstants.au3>
#include <MsgBoxConstants.au3>
#include <GUIConstantsEx.au3>
#include <Array.au3>
#include <File.au3>
#include "image_get_info.au3"

Local $mygui = GUICreate("Shoot Info", 300, 200)
GUISetState(@SW_SHOW, $mygui)
Local $icombobox = GUICtrlCreateCombo("", 10, 25, 185, 20)
Local $nameinput = GUICtrlCreateInput("", 10, 75, 200)
Local $driveletter = GUICtrlCreateCombo("", 240, 140, 50, 20)
GUICtrlSetData($icombobox, "Family|BDAY Club|Landscape|Automotive|Recreational|Ours")
GUICtrlSetData($driveletter, "Z|C|D", "Z")
$catlabel = GUICtrlCreateLabel("Category", 10, 3)
$shootlabel = GUICtrlCreateLabel("Name of Shoot", 10, 53)
$drivelabel = GUICtrlCreateLabel("Drive:", 246, 119)
Local $iclose = GUICtrlCreateButton("Close", 210, 170, 85, 25)
Local $foldercreate = GUICtrlCreateButton("Setup", 20, 170, 85, 25)
$sdriveletter = GUICtrlRead($driveletter)
While 1
    Switch GUIGetMsg()
        Case $gui_event_close, $iclose
            ExitLoop
        Case $icombobox
            $scomboread = GUICtrlRead($icombobox)
        Case $driveletter
            $sdriveletter = GUICtrlRead($driveletter)
        Case $foldercreate
            $shootnamedata = GUICtrlRead($nameinput)
            newshoot()
            copyfiles()
    EndSwitch
WEnd

Func newshoot()
       Global $sfldr1 = $sdriveletter & ":\Photoshoots\" & $scomboread & "\" & $shootnamedata
    DirCreate($sfldr1)
    Global $sfldr2 = $sfldr1 & "\RAW\"
    Local $sfldr3 = $sfldr1 & "\EDITED\"
    Local $sfldr4 = $sfldr1 & "\FACEBOOK\"
    Local $sfldr5 = $sfldr1 & "\PRINT\"
    DirCreate($sfldr2)
    DirCreate($sfldr3)
    DirCreate($sfldr4)
    DirCreate($sfldr5)
EndFunc

Func copyfiles()
    Local Const $smessage = "Hold down Ctrl or Shift to choose multiple files."
    Local $sfileopendialog = FileOpenDialog($smessage, "E:\", "RAW (*.cr2)", $fd_filemustexist + $fd_multiselect)
        $destination = $sfldr2
    If @error Then
        MsgBox($mb_systemmodal, "", "No file(s) were selected.")
        FileChangeDir(@ScriptDir)
    Else
        FileChangeDir(@ScriptDir)
        Local $arr = StringSplit($sfileopendialog, "|")
        If IsArray($arr) Then
            $source = $arr[1]
            For $i = 2 To $arr[0]
               $iCount = 0
                $arr[1] = ""
                $aInfo = _ImageGetInfo($source & "\" & $arr[$i])
                If @error Then
                    MsgBox (0, "Error", "Can't open file.")
                Exit
                Endif
                ;msgbox(0,0,$aInfo)
                $datetime = _ImageGetParam($aInfo, "DateTime")
                $cmodel = _ImageGetParam($aInfo, "Model")
                $modelfix = StringReplace($cmodel," ","_")
                $datetimefix = StringReplace($datetime," ","_")
                $datetimefixfin = StringReplace($datetimefix,":","")
                GUISetFont (9, 800)
                $counterlabel = GUICtrlCreateLabel("",20,110,200,200)
                GUICtrlSetData($counterlabel, "Copying file " & $i & " of " & $arr[0])

                FileCopy($source& "\" & $arr[$i], $destination)
                $RenameSource = $destination & $arr[$i]
                $RenameDest = $destination & $datetimefixfin & "_" & $modelfix & "_" & $arr[$i]
                FileMove($RenameSource, $RenameDest)
                $iCount += 1
            Next
        EndIf
        MsgBox($mb_systemmodal, "", "Files Copied to " & $sfldr2 & @crlf & "Remember to reject photos!")
        Run("C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Bridge CC (64 Bit)\Bridge.exe" & " " & $sfldr2)
    EndIf
EndFunc

Orion Solarwinds - SQL Query - UDT Module Switch Capacity Report

2014-10-10T09:35:00.003+10:00

I personally don't find the solarwinds report writer to be overly spectacular. GUI based sql query writing just isnt in my nature.

The following query will perform the following.

Select the Switchs in the UDT module, extract the average port usage capacity, count how many Gigabit interfaces are on the switch and put it into a nice fancy table.

SELECT
AVG(UDT_PortCapacity.PortPercentUsed) AS 'Used %',
COUNT(DISTINCT UDT_PORT.PortID) AS '#GB Switch Ports',
Nodes.Sysname AS 'Switch Name',
Nodes.Machinetype AS 'Model',
Nodes.City AS 'District',
Nodes.Department AS 'Site',
Nodes.LastSync AS 'Date'

FROM Nodes
INNER JOIN UDT_PortCapacity ON Nodes.NodeID = UDT_PortCapacity.NodeID
INNER JOIN UDT_PORT ON Nodes.NodeID = UDT_Port.NodeID

WHERE UDT_PORT.PortType=6 and UDT_PORT.NAME like 'GigabitEthernet%'

GROUP BY UDT_PortCapacity.NodeID, Nodes.Sysname, Nodes.City, Nodes.Department, Nodes.MachineType, Nodes.LastSync
ORDER BY Nodes.Sysname

Curl / WGET RSS Download

2014-05-02T15:33:00.003+10:00

#!/bin/sh
dir="/media/1tbdata1/TorrentFiles/"
        cd $dir
pwd
        currentdir=`ls`
        rm Index.html*

        wget http://kickass.to/usearch/YOURLEGALTORRENTSEARCH/?rss=1 -O Index.html
TorLinks=`grep "http://torcache" Index.html | cut -d "?" -f1 | cut -d"=" -f2 | sed 's/\"//g'`
        old=$IFS
        IFS='
        '
        array=$TorLinks
                for i in $array; do
                        #echo $i
                                torfile=`echo $i | cut -d"/" -f5`
                                #echo $torfile
if [ -f /media/1tbdata1/TorrentFiles/$torfile.added ]
                        then
                                echo "Torrent Found" $i
                        else
                                echo "Downloading Torrent"
                                curl --compressed -C - -O $i
                        fi
                done

echo ------------------- Downloading Complete -------------------
grep Index /var/log/syslog

Updated 10-10-14

Battlefield 3 - Crashing

2012-07-29T18:08:00.000+10:00

I was having no end of trouble with stability with my machine and BF3. It appears now that I have been able to resolve ALL of my issues.

A rundown of my hardware

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-MA790FX-DS5
CPU: AMD Phenom 9850 Quad-Core Black Edition AM2+ 2.5GHz
Graphics Card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti

Removing nvidia drivers did not fix it, installing the latest beta drivers did not fix it either. I had read that there were some incompatibilities between bf3, nvidia cards and realtek audio. So i uninstalled that driver, allowed windows to find its own driver, did not fix it. I did a full windows update (I had it turned off as I was in a rush to get the PC built), still did not resolve.

The game night was over, and I had missed 70% of the action due to crashing, freezing and random black screens.

The next morning I decided to perform a Bios update on my graphics card, I also upped the voltage to the video card. Finally I set, in the nvidia control panel - Manage 3d settings section, a profile specific to battlefield 3 so that the Power Management Mode was set to "Prefer Maximum Performance" rather than adaptive.

I reset bf3 settings to auto (which sits somewhere between high and ultra) and have not had a single game crash since.

Ubuntu Bash - Create Folders based on files

2012-07-23T20:14:00.003+10:00

cd *Your Dir here*
for filename in *; do
folder1=`echo "$filename" |cut -d"." -f1`
folder=`echo "$folder1" | sed 's/ /_/g'`
mkdir "$folder"
mv "$filename" "$folder/"
done

HP Microserver Build.

2012-06-22T18:29:00.001+10:00

*Note* This post will update as I work on it.

So my microserver arrived. I've been eying one of these off for ages and after building a website was finally able to afford one.

Specs:
Hardware
HP Proliant MicroServer N40L.
6gb DDR3 RAM
1x 250gb HDD (OS Only) - Hope to change this to an SSD one day.
3x 1tb HDD's (At this stage data storage only, need to backup the data from the three to another drive). Will eventually be software raid'd.
1x PCI-E Video Card (256mb)

Software:
OS: Ubuntu Server 12.04 LTS.
APPS:

VirtualBox (Running a Windows 7 VM for Media Center / Media Browser to XBOX360's)
webmin
transmission-daemon
mdadm
htop
handbrake-cli

I'm going to see if theres a way to setup so that when the OS determines a DVD is in the drive that it will automatically decrypt and convert using handbrake-cli (for backup purposes of course). It looks like dvdbackup may be able to assist in decrypting, will look into it soon.

*Note About HTOP* Load Average is explain as follows:

The first one is a 1 minute load average, second is 5 minutes, third is 15 minutes,

On multi-processor system, the load is relative to the number of processor cores available. The "100% utilization" mark is 1.00 on a single-core system, 2.00, on a dual-core, 4.00 on a quad-core, etc.
Watching an episode of IT Crowd shows the following usage via htop:

720 Version of Elf

720 of ice age

Windows 7 VM Settings

Ubuntu Server VM Settings (Apache, mySQL, PHP)

Wordpress: NextGen Gallery Black and White Images

2012-06-11T21:36:00.001+10:00

How difficult would it be to include a way to have the single images fade in and out of black and white on mouse over? I have seen a few different ways to implement, but not anything directly relating to ngg.
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/nextgen-gallery/
Solved:
In your theme's header.php add the following:
After the <head> tag add (if not already there)

<?php wp_enqueue_script("jquery"); ?>
<?php wp_head();?>
</head>

At the end of the header.php file add, change the div tag (wpcol-one-third img) to the div tage that shows on your page.

<script type="text/javascript">
// On window load. This waits until images have loaded which is essential
jQuery(window).load(function(){
// Fade in images so there isn't a color "pop" document load and then on window load
jQuery(".wpcol-one-third img").fadeIn(500);
// clone image
jQuery('.wpcol-one-third img').each(function(){
var el = jQuery(this);
el.css({"position":"absolute"}).wrap("<div class='img_wrapper' style='display: inline-block'>").clone().addClass('img_grayscale').css({"position":"absolute","z-index":"998","opacity":"0"}).insertBefore(el).queue(function(){
var el = jQuery(this);
el.parent().css({"width":this.width,"height":this.height});
el.dequeue();
});
this.src = grayscale(this.src);
});
// Fade image
jQuery('.wpcol-one-third img').mouseover(function(){
jQuery(this).parent().find('img:first').stop().animate({opacity:1}, 1000);
})
jQuery('.img_grayscale').mouseout(function(){
jQuery(this).stop().animate({opacity:0}, 1000);
});
});
// Grayscale w canvas method
function grayscale(src){
var canvas = document.createElement('canvas');
var ctx = canvas.getContext('2d');
var imgObj = new Image();
imgObj.src = src;
canvas.width = imgObj.width;
canvas.height = imgObj.height;
ctx.drawImage(imgObj, 0, 0);
var imgPixels = ctx.getImageData(0, 0, canvas.width, canvas.height);
for(var y = 0; y < imgPixels.height; y++){
for(var x = 0; x < imgPixels.width; x++){
var i = (y * 4) * imgPixels.width + x * 4;
var avg = (imgPixels.data[i] + imgPixels.data[i + 1] + imgPixels.data[i + 2]) / 3;
imgPixels.data[i] = avg;
imgPixels.data[i + 1] = avg;
imgPixels.data[i + 2] = avg;
}
}
ctx.putImageData(imgPixels, 0, 0, 0, 0, imgPixels.width, imgPixels.height);
return canvas.toDataURL();
}
</script>

Above script obtained from:
http://webdesignerwall.com/tutorials/html5-grayscale-image-hover

Bash Script - iView Download

2012-06-05T21:50:00.000+10:00

First you need to have python-iview installed. Get it through here (for ubuntu):

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:jeremy-visser/python-iviewsudo
sudo apt-get install python-iview rtmpdump

If you already have python-iview installed you should update it:
Use the following to check the repository version and the installed version. Verify if its the same.
sudo apt-cache show python-iview
sudo apt-cache showpkg python-iview

The script will also convert the downloaded file to an AVI and it compresses the audio using lame.. I only do this because I use my xbox 360's connected to Windows 7 media center to stream things. It doesnt seem to do to well with mp4 files. You can change this, or remove it completely by removing the line with ffmpeg in it. Change the name of the show and you should be good to go
To get the conversion to work I installed the following:

sudo apt-get install ffmpeg libavcodec-extra-53 x264 libvpx-dev libx264-dev lame

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cd /media/1tbmedia/TV/ABC/
pwd

currentdir=`ls`

Show="Q&A"
iViewDir=/usr/bin/iview-cli
index=`$iViewDir -i | grep "$Show"`
indexno=`echo $index | cut -d" " -f1`
eplist=`$iViewDir -s $index`
for i in $eplist; do
episodes=`echo $i | grep ".mp4" | cut -d "(" -f2 | cut -d ")" -f1`
for a in $episodes; do
filename=`echo $a | cut -d"/" -f2`
noext=`echo $filename | cut -d"." -f1`
if [ -f /media/1tbmedia/TV/ABC/$noext.avi ]
then
echo "found" $noext.avi
break
else
echo "not found" $noext.avi "Downloading file"
$iViewDir -s $indexno -d $episodes -o $filename
newfile=`echo $filename | cut -d"." -f1`
ffmpeg -i $filename -b 192000 -acodec libmp3lame -qscale 3 $newfile.avi

fi
wait
done
wait
done

rm *.mp4

Ubuntu - iView Download Bash Script

2012-05-29T22:31:00.002+10:00

First you need to have python-iview installed. Get it through here (for ubuntu):

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:jeremy-visser/python-iviewsudo
sudo apt-get install python-iview rtmpdump

If you already have python-iview installed you should update it:
Use the following to check the repository version and the installed version. Verify if its the same.
sudo apt-cache show python-iview
sudo apt-cache showpkg python-iview

The script will also convert the downloaded file to an AVI. You can change this, or remove it completely by removing the line with ffmpeg in it. I only do this because my destination device has limited codec abilities.
Change the name of the show and you should be good to go. The script has been designed to reconvert the mp4 to avi, it compresses the audio using lame.

To get the conversion to work I installed the following:

sudo apt-get install ffmpeg libavcodec-extra-53 x264 libvpx-dev libx264-dev lame

-------------------------------------------The Script -------------------------------------------------
#!/bin/bash
cd /directory/
pwd

Show="Name if Iview program here"
iViewDir=/usr/bin/iview-cli
index=`$iViewDir -i | grep "$Show"`
indexno=`echo $index | cut -d" " -f1`
eplist=`$iViewDir -s $index`

for i in $eplist; do
        episodes=`echo $i | grep ".mp4" | cut -d "(" -f2 | cut -d ")" -f1`

for a in $episodes; do
        filename=`echo $a | cut -d"/" -f2`
        $iViewDir -s $indexno -d $episodes -o $filename

        newfile=`echo $a | cut -d"." -f1`
        ffmpeg -i $a -b 192000 -acodec libmp3lame -qscale 5 $newfile.avi
done
wait
done

Bash - iView Downloader Updated

2012-05-29T13:00:00.001+10:00

First you need to have python-iview installed. Get it through here (for ubuntu):

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:jeremy-visser/python-iviewsudo
sudo apt-get install python-iview rtmpdump

If you already have python-iview installed you should update it:
Use the following to check the repository version and the installed version. Verify if its the same.
sudo apt-cache show python-iview
sudo apt-cache showpkg python-iview

The script will also convert the downloaded file to an AVI. You can change this, or remove it completely by removing the line with ffmpeg in it. I only do this because my destination device has limited codec abilities.
Change the name of the show and you should be good to go. The script has been designed to reconvert the mp4 to avi, it compresses the audio using lame.

To get the conversion to work I installed the following:

sudo apt-get install ffmpeg libavcodec-extra-53 x264 libvpx-dev libx264-dev lame

-------------------------------------------The Script -------------------------------------------------
#!/bin/bash
cd /directory/
pwd

Show="Name if Iview program here"
iViewDir=/usr/bin/iview-cli
index=`$iViewDir -i | grep "$Show"`
indexno=`echo $index | cut -d" " -f1`
eplist=`$iViewDir -s $index`

for i in $eplist; do
        episodes=`echo $i | grep ".mp4" | cut -d "(" -f2 | cut -d ")" -f1`

for a in $episodes; do
        filename=`echo $a | cut -d"/" -f2`
        $iViewDir -s $indexno -d $episodes -o $filename

currentfile=`echo $a | cut -d"/" -f2`
newfile=`echo $filename | cut -d"." -f1`
ffmpeg -i $currentfile -b 192000 -acodec libmp3lame -qscale 5 $newfile.avi

done

wait
done

Bash - iView Downloader

2012-04-22T18:00:00.001+10:00

First you need to have python-iview installed. Get it through here (for ubuntu):

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:jeremy-visser/python-iviewsudo

sudo apt-get install python-iview rtmpdump

Create a bash script with the following;
The script will also convert the downloaded file to an AVI. You can change this, or remove it completely by removing the line with ffmpeg in it. I only do this because my destination device has limited codec abilities.
Change the name of the show and you should be good to go.

#!/bin/bash
cd /media/1tbwindows/Movies/Kids/TV/PlaySchool
pwd

Show="Play School"
iViewDir=/usr/bin/iview-cli
index=`$iViewDir -i | grep "$Show"`
indexno=`echo $index | cut -d" " -f1`
eplist=`$iViewDir -s $index`

for i in $eplist; do
        episodes=`echo $i | grep ".mp4" | cut -d "(" -f2 | cut -d ")" -f1`

for a in $episodes; do
        filename=`echo $a | cut -d"/" -f2 | cut -d"." -f1`
        echo $iViewDir -s $indexno -d $episodes -o $filename.flv
        newfile=`echo $a | cut -d"." -f1`
        echo ffmpeg -i $filename.flv -qmax $filename.avi
done
wait
done
rm *.flv

AutoIT - Files to array

2012-03-01T09:16:00.000+10:00

AutoIT Script which reads a directory for desired file type (Specified in $aArray = )

Puts the file list to an array, sorts them by most recently modified, reads the most recent file and adds a key to registry. You could easily modify this to do a file copy or whatever may be required.

----------------------------------------------------------
#Region ;**** Directives created by AutoIt3Wrapper_GUI ****
#AutoIt3Wrapper_Res_requestedExecutionLevel=asInvoker
#EndRegion ;**** Directives created by AutoIt3Wrapper_GUI ****
#include <file.au3>
#include <array.au3>

Global $spath = "C:\test\"
$checkpath = StringRegExp($spath,"^.+\\$",0)
If $checkpath = 0 Then $spath = $spath & "\"

$aArray = _FileListToArray($spath,"*.txt",1)
If Not IsArray($aArray) Then
    Exit
EndIf

Global $aArray2D[10][2]
ReDim $aArray2D[$aArray[0]+1][2]
$aArray2D[0][0] = $aArray[0]

For $i=1 to $aArray[0]
    $aArray2D[$i][0] = $aArray[$i]
    $aArray2D[$i][1] = FileGetTime($spath & $aArray[$i],0,1)
Next

_ArraySort($aArray2D,1,1,"",1)

$LatestStore = $aArray2D[1][0]

$SFile = FileRead($spath & $LatestStore)
Local $sFileLine = StringSplit($SFile," ")
$SDate = $sFileLine[1]

RegWrite("HKLM\SOFTWARE\KEY\KEYS","Data","REG_SZ",$SDate)
     If @error Then
         Exit
     EndIf

AutoIT - GhostScript Wrapper

2012-01-24T15:06:00.001+10:00

This script works, goes through the $FilePath directory and searches for PDF files, then outputs them to the $TempDir. This was tested as working with GhostScript PostScript 9.04 installed to windows.

#include <File.au3>
#include <Array.au3>

$FilePath = "C:\test\pdforiginal"
$TempDir = "C:\test\pdfcompression"
$currentsize = 0
$endloop = 0
Dim $arrFileList, $arrFileSize[2]

; find files
$arrFileList = _FileListToArray($FilePath, "*.pdf", 1)
;_ArrayDisplay($arrFileList)

If ubound($arrFileList) = 0 Then
    MsgBox(0,"","No PDF Files found in " & $FilePath)
    Exit
EndIf

For $x = 1 to $arrFileList[0]
    ReDim $arrFileSize[$x +1]
    $arrFileSize[0] = UBound($arrFileSize)
;~     msgbox(0,"",$arrFileSize[0])
    $arrFileSize[$x] = FileGetSize($FilePath & "\" & $arrFileList[$x])
Next

If Not FileExists($TempDir) Then
    DirCreate($TempDir)
EndIf

For $x = 1 to $arrFileList[0]
   $PDF = $arrFileList[$x]
   $GhostscriptDIR = "C:\Program Files\gs\gs9.04\bin"
   $inputfile = """" & $FilePath & "\" & $PDF & """"
   $outputfile = """" & $TempDir & "\" & $PDF & """" & " "
   $Ghostscript = $GhostscriptDIR & "\gswin32.exe -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -dSAFER -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dCompatibilityLevel=1.3 -dPDFSETTINGS=/screen -dEmbedAllFonts=true -dSubsetFonts=true -dColorImageDownsampleType=/Bicubic -dColorImageResolution=300 -dGrayImageDownsampleType=/Bicubic -dGrayImageResolution=300 -dMonoImageDownsampleType=/Bicubic -dMonoImageResolution=300 -sOutputFile="& $outputfile & $inputfile
   RunWait($Ghostscript)
Next

Smartctl Check Email Script

2012-01-12T23:46:00.001+10:00

This script was created with Ubuntu Server in mind using ssmtp as the mailer daemon. Create the following script in an easy to remember location, you can configure this later as a cron job.

Change the variables ToEmail, FrEmail and MailScript to reflect valid email addresses and a valid location on your server or device.

Once you have created the file, ensure that it has a .sh at the end of the filename. To allow the script to be executable run the following command from terminal.

sudo chmod a+x "file locaiton"

You can now call your script by running it at elevated privileges. (sudo)

Copy everything below the following line
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

#!/bin/bash

ToEmail="email@email.com"
FrEmail="email@email.com"
MailScript="/home/USERNAME/mail.txt"

echo To: $ToEmail > $MailScript
echo From: $FrEmail >> $MailScript
echo Subject: Smart status email >> $MailScript

echo SDA >> $MailScript
echo ---------------------------------------------------------------- >> $MailScript
sudo smartctl /dev/sda -i -H >> $MailScript

echo SDB >> $MailScript
echo ---------------------------------------------------------------- >> $MailScript
sudo smartctl /dev/sdb -i -H >> $MailScript

echo SDC >> $MailScript
echo ---------------------------------------------------------------- >> $MailScript
sudo smartctl /dev/sdc -i -H >> $MailScript

echo SDD >> $MailScript
echo ---------------------------------------------------------------- >> $MailScript
sudo smartctl /dev/sdd -i -H >> $MailScript

sudo ssmtp $ToEmail < $MailScript

telnet to powerware ups

2012-01-10T21:30:00.001+10:00

Seems to be difficult / impossible to use vbscript to telnet to devices. I had to make the following script which uses plink to telnet to devices and then uses the StdOut function to extract information.

This script will telnet to a Powerware UPS's snmp card, login using a specified password (handy if the password is the same for all of them) and will extract the serial number, system name, first snmp string entry and outputs these to the file.

Create this script and place in the same directory as plink.exe and ips.txt, you need to make the ips.txt file and have all your desired destination ips listed on a new line.

Change the password = section and you're ready to go.

Set oShell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
Set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
set outputfile = objFSO.CreateTextFile("output.txt",2)
Set inputfile = objFSO.OpenTextFile("ips.txt")
Dim str
Dim password
Do While not inputfile.AtEndOfStream
    IPS = Inputfile.Readline
    'Msgbox IPS
    PlinkCommand = "plink -telnet " & ips
    'Msgbox PlinkCommand
    Set proc = oShell.Exec (PlinkCommand)
    If err.number <> 0 Then SystemName = Err.Description

    password = "password"

    Do while Not proc.StdOut.AtEndOfStream
        Str = Str & proc.StdOut.Read(1)

        If Instr(Str, "Password:") <> 0 Then
            proc.StdIn.Write(password & vbcr)
            Str = ""
        End If

        If InStr(Str,"Please Enter Your Choice =>") <> 0 Then
                proc.StdIn.WriteLine
                proc.StdIn.WriteLine
                proc.StdIn.WriteLine("1" )
                proc.StdIn.WriteLine
                proc.StdIn.WriteLine("7")
                proc.StdIn.WriteLine
                proc.StdIn.WriteLine("0")
                proc.StdIn.WriteLine
                proc.StdIn.WriteLine("1")
                proc.StdIn.WriteLine
                proc.StdIn.WriteLine("0")
                proc.StdIn.WriteLine
                proc.StdIn.WriteLine("3")
                proc.StdIn.WriteLine
            Str = ""
        End If

        If InStr(Str,"UPS Serial Number") <> 0 Then
            line = proc.StdOut.ReadLine
            line = Trim(Line)
            line = Mid(line,2,len(line))
            SerialNumber = Trim(line)
            Str = ""
        End If

        If InStr(Str,"sysName") <> 0 Then
            line = proc.StdOut.ReadLine
            line = Trim(Line)
            line = Mid(line,2,len(line))
            SystemName = Trim(line)
            Str = ""
        End If

        If InStr(Str,"[1]") <> 0 Then
            line = proc.StdOut.ReadLine
            line = Trim(Line)
            line = Mid(line,2,len(line))
            snmpstring1 = Trim(line)
            Str = ""
                proc.StdIn.WriteLine("0")
                proc.StdIn.WriteLine
                proc.StdIn.WriteLine("0")
                proc.StdIn.WriteLine
                proc.StdIn.WriteLine("0")
                proc.StdIn.WriteLine
        End If

    Loop
        outputfile.Writeline(IPS & "," & SystemName & "," & SerialNumber & "," & snmpstring1)
Loop

LUBUNTU - VirtualBox Guest Addition Install

2012-01-09T14:56:00.004+10:00

Have been fiddling with LUBUNTU as a VirtualBox guest on my Ubuntu Server Host.

To get these installed I had to install a couple of things to LUBUNTU.

apt-get install make
apt-get install gcc
apt-get install dkms

Rerun the VboxGuest installation and you should find it installs fine now.