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dacia and renault radio codes

Sat, 21 Mar 2026 16:00:00 +0100

If your Dacia or Renault has lost power or had its battery disconnected, you might find your radio asking for an unlock code. Instead of paying a dealership to unlock it, you can find the code yourself using our lookup tool below.

How to find your pre-code

Remove the Radio: You will usually need radio removal keys (or sometimes just a couple of small screwdrivers or pens) to gently pull the unit out of the dashboard.
Find the Sticker: On the back or side of the radio, there will be a sticker with various barcodes and serial numbers.
Identify the Pre-Code: Look for a long serial number. The “pre-code” is always the last four characters of this serial number. It consists of one letter followed by three numbers (for example, A123 or V482). Sometimes it is written separately, often prefixed by “T0” (e.g., T0A123).

Radio Code Lookup Tool

Enter your 4-character pre-code (e.g., A123) in the box below to instantly get your unlock code.

Raw Data

If you prefer to view or download the raw data yourself, you can download the full database of codes in JSON format here: radio_codes.json. Alternatively, you can view the original compiled list on GitHub.

plum binding template

Tue, 04 Feb 2025 20:03:00 +0100

Here is a link to a plum binding template that I have found. Useful when drilling your own ski bindings.

Plum Binding Template

Flexit UNI 3 Manuals

Mon, 09 Dec 2024 22:26:00 +0100

Here are a couple of Flexit UNI 3 manuals that I have found:

jotul f-305 parts diagram

Wed, 30 Oct 2024 22:15:00 +0100

Here is a parts diagram for the Jotul F-305. - Download the diagram

dacia duster manual

Tue, 29 Oct 2024 21:30:00 +0100

Here is a link to a manual from 2013 for the duster. The oil capacity is 4.5 liters for the 1.5 dci engine.

Download the manual

Introducing oslo.vision

Mon, 21 Oct 2024 20:34:00 +0200

I would like to introduce a new project I have been working on for the past few months: oslo.vision. This is a web application which allows businesses and individuals to create and share datasets for the training of computer vision models. The platform is designed to be user-friendly and accessible to people with minimal prior experience in machine learning.

I have been working on this project with a very small group of developers and designers, and we are excited to finally share it with the world. We believe that oslo.vision has the potential to revolutionize the way that computer vision models are trained and deployed, and we are eager to see how it will be used by the community.

Modern rails ecosystem

Despite python being a favorite language for machine learning, we decided to build oslo.vision using Ruby on Rails. We believe that the modern Rails ecosystem is well-suited to the development of web applications, and we have been very happy with the tools and libraries that are available to us.

Things like #nobuild, stimulus, solid_queue, kamal-deploy and stripe are a breath of fresh air and a pleasure to work with. We have been able to move quickly and efficiently, and we are confident that we will be able to continue to iterate fast and improve the platform in the future.

Raspberry PI as a web server setup guide

Sun, 29 Sep 2019 00:00:00 +0200

Raspberry PIs are cheap. Static site generators result in sites which are easy to serve. Lets encrypt offers free SSL certificates and a great tool for managing them. Cloudflare has an API which can be used for dynamic dns, which is also free. £35 for one off website hosting with SSL is pretty cool. Note: You can use Netlify which offers hosting of your static site for free with SSL included. This is likely a good choice for a “real” website but if you have a pi lying around this is a fun little project.

Set a static IP on the PI to allow a port forwarding rule to be setup which will survive server reboots.

Open /etc/dhcpd.conf

interface eth0
static ip_address=192.168.2.13/24
static routers=192.168.2.1
static domain_name_servers=1.0.0.1

sudo reboot

Now setup 2 port forwarding rules on your router. One for port 80 and one for port 443. Normally your router will have a web interface where you can configure such things.

Install Nginx to serve your website. Its a relatively lightweight webserver unlike the more traditional apache.

sudo apt update
sudo apt install -y nginx

Link your site to the default

sudo ln -s /home/user/yoursite /var/www/html

Install docker

sudo apt-get install apt-transport-https ca-certificates software-properties-common -y
curl -fsSL get.docker.com -o get-docker.sh && sh get-docker.sh
sudo usermod -aG docker pi

Add the following to /etc/sources.list

deb https://download.docker.com/linux/raspbian/ stretch stable

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

systemctl start docker.service

To check it is installed correctly.

docker info

Move your domain to cloudflare. This process might take 24-48 hours and initially involves opening an account, adding your domain, and then

Install cloudflare dynamic dns updater and run it via docker.

https://github.com/oznu/docker-cloudflare-ddns

Setup certbot

You need to also delete /etc/pip.conf as it will break lets encypt install process.

https://certbot.eff.org/lets-encrypt/pip-nginx

Open 80 and 443 on your router and setup port forwarding to your raspberry pi. Dont expect lightning performance but it is indeed a capable tool for serving static content. Who needs the ‘cloud’?!

SSH Port Forwarding VPS

Thu, 06 Jun 2019 00:00:00 +0200

When developing on a remote server you often need to connect to services running on it from your local machine (db guis / web browser / paw). One option is to open ports in the firewall and connect directly. The downside of this is that often services running in a development environment are unsecured. eg. redis.

A more secure solution is to forward local ports on you local machine to ports on the remote server. The syntax of this is always confusing are there are both local and remote ports involved. Most of the time you need ssh local port forwarding. Generally I use .ssh/config to setup the ssh connection. This allows commandline options to also be used.

eg.

ssh -L 9090:localhost:5432 skopphornet

This will allow you to connect to port 9090 on your local machine and this will in turn connect you to the postgres instance on the remote server skopphornet tunnelled securely through the ssh session.

psql -h localhost -p 9090</pre>

VPS Server for Docker Development

Tue, 02 Apr 2019 00:00:00 +0200

Wow its been a long time. Going to start sharing some rough code snippets again. Mainly for personal reference!

We develop a lot with docker compose for local development nowadays and as the cluster has grown in size its easier for my poor mac mini to not do CPU intensive tasks.

Therefore I have started developing on a VPS! That is until I have my own beefy server at home / new mac mini. Below is a gist embed which include iptables config and a rough script for setting up the VPS (Ubuntu 16.04)

Nissan Patrol GU GR Y61 Workshop Manual

Tue, 27 Dec 2016 00:00:00 +0100

Here is a link to the workshop manual for a Nissan Patrol Y61

Workshop Manual