[Dorset] On Second Entry to MP3 Player Function Program Stops Responding to External Commands

Hi (Again), I'm inching towards squashing the (known) bugs in my Music Player and Bells software. By and large the Flask code is doing exactly what it should do and displays the current status of the two programs and also sends the correct commands to them when the control buttons are

Re: [Dorset] Wireless dropping out

N3000RPv3, which is now very old and is no longer available except at a vastly inflated price. However, it defaults to creating a new AP on the same channel and ESSID as the original, but it also allows everything to be changed. -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Online, Jitsi

Re: [Dorset] Wireless dropping out

lug%20in%20wifi%20booster:1:15:1 -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Online, Jitsi, Tuesday, 2021-03-02 20:00 Check to whom you are replying Meetings, mailing list, IRC, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk New thread, don't hijack: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk

Re: [Dorset] Wireless dropping out

ew one with an Ethernet cable and set the old one ups as an AP with the same ESSID and credentials. You'd need to have them in the same room in that case (or drill holes in your walls). -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Online, Jitsi, Tuesday, 2021-03-02 20:00 Check to wh

Re: [Dorset] Terminate a Python Program Conditionally (or Alternatively Trace a Running Program)

format_exc())+"\n\nwhile running. Exiting...") bells_socket.wait_for_handler_to_exit() bells_socket.reset() That was also code written by Hamish for the River System Pis. -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Online, Jitsi, Tuesday, 2021-03-02 20:00 Check to

Re: [Dorset] Terminate a Python Program Conditionally (or Alternatively Trace a Running Program)

ine 444, in check_webserver_commands sys.exit() SystemExit but it doesn't actually exit the program and I have to Ctrl-C to get out fully, which means it doesn't save the trace. Any ideas? -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Online, Jitsi, Tuesday, 2021-03-02 20:00 Check

Re: [Dorset] Terminate a Python Program Conditionally (or Alternatively Trace a Running Program)

ram stopped. :-) However, this only works once at the moment, so I've obviously got a variable somewhere that needs cleaning out, but at least I have some tools to help me do it. Thanks Keith for the suggestion. -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Online, Jitsi, Tuesday, 2

Re: [Dorset] Terminate a Python Program Conditionally (or Alternatively Trace a Running Program)

ly homing in on the point where the mp3 player gets restarted. -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Online, Jitsi, Tuesday, 2021-03-02 20:00 Check to whom you are replying Meetings, mailing list, IRC, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk New thread, don't hijack: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk

Re: [Dorset] Terminate a Python Program Conditionally (or Alternatively Trace a Running Program)

; difference between the debugger commands 'next' and 'step'. Thanks Keith that looks as if it might do the job. -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Online, Jitsi, Tuesday, 2021-03-02 20:00 Check to whom you are replying Meetings, mailing list, IRC, ... http://dorset.lug.

[Dorset] Terminate a Python Program Conditionally (or Alternatively Trace a Running Program)

() function has completed. I've been unable to find such a statement. Alternatively, is there a way to get trace to do it's stuff while the program is executing? -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Online, Jitsi, Tuesday, 2021-03-02 20:00 Check to whom you are replying

Re: [Dorset] Wireless dropping out

location. This allows you to set a fixed Channel on the Router (temporarily at least) to see if it helps. -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Online, Jitsi, Tuesday, 2021-03-02 20:00 Check to whom you are replying Meetings, mailing list, IRC, ... http://dorset.lug.org

Re: [Dorset] Wireless dropping out

uter issue affects the WiFi Card in your laptop more than Lily's Tablet. Do they both connect to the same Channel? (In other words is the tablet on 2.4 GHz and the Laptop on 5? -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Online, Jitsi, Tuesday, 2021-03-02 20:00 Check to who

Re: [Dorset] Wireless dropping out

egular intervals. A Router reboot cures this. Have you tried rebooting the Router? -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Online, Jitsi, Tuesday, 2021-03-02 20:00 Check to whom you are replying Meetings, mailing list, IRC, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk New thread, don't

Re: [Dorset] Wireless dropping out

in on their device. -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Online, Jitsi, Tuesday, 2021-03-02 20:00 Check to whom you are replying Meetings, mailing list, IRC, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk New thread, don't hijack: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk

Re: [Dorset] Permissions Quandary with nginx

ead foo.py as that user and group. > > It depends how locked down you're trying to make access to the Python > source. I suspect not very, so www-data being classed as ‘other’ for > searching and reading could be fine. > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File-system_permissions#Permiss

Re: [Dorset] HP Printers and Flash

the IP Address that it has been allocated by your router's DHCP server. -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Online, Jitsi, Tuesday, 2021-03-02 20:00 Check to whom you are replying Meetings, mailing list, IRC, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk New thread, don't

Re: [Dorset] Permissions Quandary with nginx

ve always thought of remotes as being something like GitLab. -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Online, Jitsi, Tuesday, 2021-03-02 20:00 Check to whom you are replying Meetings, mailing list, IRC, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk New thread, don't hijack: mail

Re: [Dorset] Permissions Quandary with nginx

o a logs directory which is outside the html directory at /home/ pi/logs. I'll be looking into that. -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Online, Jitsi, Tuesday, 2021-03-02 20:00 Check to whom you are replying Meetings, mailing list, IRC, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk New thread, don't hijack: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk

Re: [Dorset] Permissions Quandary with nginx

tml, they take on the www-data ownership and I don't need to do the extra chown. I can live with that. -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Online, Jitsi, Tuesday, 2021-03-02 20:00 Check to whom you are replying Meetings, mailing list, IRC, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk New thr

Re: [Dorset] Permissions Quandary with nginx

On Saturday, 6 February 2021 10:55:23 GMT Terry Coles wrote: > What do I need to do to get this to work? I may have partially solved this. Since in the Tutorial the application directory is created before the App is download directly to it using wget, I assume that the conte

Re: [Dorset] Router Wifi configs

an extender. -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Online, Jitsi, Tuesday, 2021-03-02 20:00 Check to whom you are replying Meetings, mailing list, IRC, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk New thread, don't hijack: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk

Re: [Dorset] HP Printers and Flash

On Saturday, 6 February 2021 11:09:29 GMT Tim wrote: > I am using a Laser jet Pro M277 (Scanner copier printer) and it loads > the web interface for me OK. Both the Browser and HPLIP are working here with my HP OfficeJet Pro 7720. -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting:

[Dorset] Permissions Quandary with nginx

to get this to work? -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Online, Jitsi, Tuesday, 2021-03-02 20:00 Check to whom you are replying Meetings, mailing list, IRC, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk New thread, don't hijack: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk

[Dorset] Next Meeting - Tonight at 8 pm

.AppImage ./jitsi-meet-x86_64.AppImage and then entering ‘dorset-lug’ as the meeting ID. Hope to see you all this evening. -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Online, Jitsi, Tuesday, 2021-02-02 20:00 Check to whom you are replying Meetings, mailing list, IRC, ... http

Re: [Dorset] Python Slicing Problem

On Sunday, 31 January 2021 15:00:08 GMT Stephen Wolff wrote: > 3-5=-2, which might be what you meant (2 from the end of the list). But my > guess is that you mean [3:5]? Doh! And it was right in the Test.py program... Thanks. -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting:

[Dorset] Python Slicing Problem

it isn't really. If so, do I have to write the data one element at a time? -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Online, Jitsi, Tuesday, 2021-02-02 20:00 Check to whom you are replying Meetings, mailing list, IRC, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk New thread, don't hijack

Re: [Dorset] Problem using Chromium to log in to Web Page Secured with flask-httpauth

emembered' across sessions? -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Online, Jitsi, Tuesday, 2021-02-02 20:00 Check to whom you are replying Meetings, mailing list, IRC, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk New thread, don't hijack: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk

Re: [Dorset] Problem using Chromium to log in to Web Page Secured with flask-httpauth

than hanging around the WMT trying to hack into the system. Thanks for the suggestion though. -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Online, Jitsi, Tuesday, 2021-02-02 20:00 Check to whom you are replying Meetings, mailing list, IRC, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk New t

Re: [Dorset] OT: WiFi Device Generating Multiple DHCP Requests

On Tuesday, 12 January 2021 09:48:43 GMT Terry Coles wrote: > My EV Charger is generating multiple DHCP Requests. This was first noticed > on Saturday when my son checked the router log and saw that one device was > being allocated an IP Address every 5 minutes or so. I isolated the

Re: [Dorset] Problem using Chromium to log in to Web Page Secured with flask-httpauth

On Tuesday, 26 January 2021 18:16:58 GMT Patrick Wigmore wrote: > Sorry for any confusion I may have injected. Any confusion is definitely created by me. -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Online, Jitsi, Tuesday, 2021-02-02 20:00 Check to whom you are replying Meeti

Re: [Dorset] Problem using Chromium to log in to Web Page Secured with flask-httpauth

s. A very slack handful. :-) Probably no more than half a dozen. > - Do the users share devices provided at the site? No they use their own. > - How long should a ‘login’ last? Probably only 10 to 15 Minutes. -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Online, Jitsi, Tuesday, 2021-0

[Dorset] Next Meeting - One Week Tonight

. -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Online, Jitsi, Tuesday, 2021-02-02 20:00 Check to whom you are replying Meetings, mailing list, IRC, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk New thread, don't hijack: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk

Re: [Dorset] Problem using Chromium to log in to Web Page Secured with flask-httpauth

Oh. OK. I understand that is the code the Flask method and not the code for the Flask Development Server, but surely it's the server that sets the cookie? As you can see, I have little idea how these things work. -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Online, Jitsi, Tuesday

Re: [Dorset] Problem using Chromium to log in to Web Page Secured with flask-httpauth

f cookies by the site is better understood, it's hard to > reason about the risks of using cookies. :-) Once the site is deployed it will be running on nginx, where presumably I'll be able to configure it to do what I want / need. -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: O

Re: [Dorset] Problem using Chromium to log in to Web Page Secured with flask-httpauth

sumably I should be able to see the cookies now I know how these developer tools work. -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Online, Jitsi, Tuesday, 2021-02-02 20:00 Check to whom you are replying Meetings, mailing list, IRC, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk New thread, don'

Re: [Dorset] Problem using Chromium to log in to Web Page Secured with flask-httpauth

hod updating a session, unlike > HTTPDigestAuth, for example. I believe that Hamish spotted the problem; it's a cookie issue. When I cleared browsing data in Chromium, it made me log in again. -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Online, Jitsi, Tuesday, 2021-02-02 20:00 Ch

Re: [Dorset] Problem using Chromium to log in to Web Page Secured with flask-httpauth

obably the best approach. -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Online, Jitsi, Tuesday, 2021-02-02 20:00 Check to whom you are replying Meetings, mailing list, IRC, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk New thread, don't hijack: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk

Re: [Dorset] Problem using Chromium to log in to Web Page Secured with flask-httpauth

OK. Any comments on this? -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Online, Jitsi, Tuesday, 2021-02-02 20:00 Check to whom you are replying Meetings, mailing list, IRC, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk New thread, don't hijack: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk

Re: [Dorset] Problem using Chromium to log in to Web Page Secured with flask-httpauth

that, the thief would have to not only be a scrote but also know about browsers etc; probably not a common situation. -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Online, Jitsi, Tuesday, 2021-02-02 20:00 Check to whom you are replying Meetings, mailing list, IRC, ... http://do

[Dorset] Problem using Chromium to log in to Web Page Secured with flask-httpauth

. In that instance I am challenged again when I surf to the protected page. Chromium has not saved the password. Can anyone explain what is going on and is this likely to be a security issue? -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Online, Jitsi, Tuesday, 2021-02-02 20:00 Check to whom

Re: [Dorset] Flask web development book

SO solution uses request.method and request.form, whereas the book only mentions request.form once as an example of what can be done with it and it's not to manage buttons). -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Online, Jitsi, Tuesday, 2021-02-02 20:00 Check to whom you

Re: [Dorset] Using Flask to render a set of Buttons.

e been discontinued. When I search for it in the extensions store on Chromium, or the add-ons store on Firefox, nothing comes up. There are old links to reviews, but they are dead. I'm not surprised really because if it allowed copying of text that would be a copyright violation. --

Re: [Dorset] Using Flask to render a set of Buttons.

he right reader. -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Online, Jitsi, Tuesday, 2021-02-02 20:00 Check to whom you are replying Meetings, mailing list, IRC, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk New thread, don't hijack: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk

Re: [Dorset] Using Flask to render a set of Buttons.

my Kindle device. -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Online, Jitsi, Tuesday, 2021-02-02 20:00 Check to whom you are replying Meetings, mailing list, IRC, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk New thread, don't hijack: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk

Re: [Dorset] Using Flask to render a set of Buttons.

there's an awful lot about validation and authentication and very little about buttons It simply never occurred to me that I might use a form with associated Submit buttons because I don't need a form on my page, just a bunch of buttons. -- Terry Coles -- Next m

Re: [Dorset] Using Flask to render a set of Buttons.

le button and not multiple buttons each carrying out a single action. -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Online, Jitsi, Tuesday, 2021-02-02 20:00 Check to whom you are replying Meetings, mailing list, IRC, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk New thread, don't hijack: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk

Re: [Dorset] Using Flask to render a set of Buttons.

Hamish and LXF as posted by Peter would also work, but I think it would rapidly get a bit bloated with more than half a dozen buttons. Anyway, I'm going to try the method(s) at stack overflow first. -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Online, Jitsi, Tuesday, 2021-02-02 20:00

Re: [Dorset] Using Flask to render a set of Buttons.

On Thursday, 21 January 2021 13:55:09 GMT PeterMerchant wrote: > Go-car.sh used to start programs when I am testing. These lines go into > rc.local for running at startup That seems to be the way that Hamish proposed it. -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Online,

Re: [Dorset] Using Flask to render a set of Buttons.

GPIO pins to > drive the motors. Peter, Which issue was that? I sunscribe to LXF. -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Online, Jitsi, Tuesday, 2021-02-02 20:00 Check to whom you are replying Meetings, mailing list, IRC, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk New thread,

Re: [Dorset] Using Flask to render a set of Buttons.

That's the next problem :-) -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Online, Jitsi, Tuesday, 2021-02-02 20:00 Check to whom you are replying Meetings, mailing list, IRC, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk New thread, don't hijack: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk

Re: [Dorset] Using Flask to render a set of Buttons.

ssing databases and authentication etc. -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Online, Jitsi, Tuesday, 2021-02-02 20:00 Check to whom you are replying Meetings, mailing list, IRC, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk New thread, don't hijack: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk

Re: [Dorset] Using Flask to render a set of Buttons.

ode that we already have (written by Hamish for the River System) to pass messages between the two running programs, eg the Webserver and the Player. -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Online, Jitsi, Tuesday, 2021-02-02 20:00 Check to whom you are replying Meetings, mail

Re: [Dorset] Using Flask to render a set of Buttons.

k only mentions buttons in around four five places and that's more of the same. I'm assuming that If I had a template with the buttons defined in it, I might be able to get the button press to invoke the python code somehow, but again I can't seem to see how to do that. -- Terry

Re: [Dorset] Using Flask to render a set of Buttons.

ginal WMT Webserver), but they all simply redirect to another page. I need to execute a line of Python. -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Online, Jitsi, Tuesday, 2021-02-02 20:00 Check to whom you are replying Meetings, mailing list, IRC, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk N

[Dorset] Using Flask to render a set of Buttons.

tc. Can anyone help? -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Online, Jitsi, Tuesday, 2021-02-02 20:00 Check to whom you are replying Meetings, mailing list, IRC, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk New thread, don't hijack: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk

Re: [Dorset] Raspberry Pi Pico

On Thursday, 21 January 2021 11:45:36 GMT PeterMerchant wrote: > About the USB connections, I thought that the specified length for USB > connections was 5 Metres? Are you going further than that at WMT? No. The two Pis are in the same Equipment Case. -- Terry

Re: [Dorset] Raspberry Pi Pico

of USB Networking and Ethernet in that scenario. -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Online, Jitsi, Tuesday, 2021-02-02 20:00 Check to whom you are replying Meetings, mailing list, IRC, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk New thread, don't hijack: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk

Re: [Dorset] Raspberry Pi Pico

dware and would probably be higher than if an Ethernet Adaptor is used because traffic has still to be carried over USB and then be converted to TCP/IP in the Adaptor. -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Online, Jitsi, Tuesday, 2021-02-02 20:00 Check to whom you are replying

Re: [Dorset] Raspberry Pi Pico

inster hardware. -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Online, Jitsi, Tuesday, 2021-02-02 20:00 Check to whom you are replying Meetings, mailing list, IRC, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk New thread, don't hijack: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk

Re: [Dorset] Raspberry Pi Pico

ight be hard to use for novices. Since Python was going up the popularity charts even then, and is quite powerful, I felt it was the right choice. I still do. -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Online, Jitsi, Tuesday, 2021-02-02 20:00 Check to whom you are replyin

[Dorset] Raspberry Pi Pico

-write. However, the hardware costs would have been roughly halved in may cases had it been available three to four years ago. -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Online, Jitsi, Tuesday, 2021-02-02 20:00 Check to whom you are replying Meetings, mailing list, IRC, ... http

Re: [Dorset] OT: WiFi Device Generating Multiple DHCP Requests

s is visible in the 'Attached Devices' list and there are no devices unaccounted for. None of the attached devices are running a DHCP Server; the Pi that did that is in the cupboard and it did it on another sub-net anyway. -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Online, Jitsi, Tues

Re: [Dorset] OT: WiFi Device Generating Multiple DHCP Requests

ertainly hasn't been apparent when I've examined the logs previously. -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Online, Jitsi, Tuesday, 2021-02-02 20:00 Check to whom you are replying Meetings, mailing list, IRC, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk New thread, don't hijack: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk

[Dorset] OT: WiFi Device Generating Multiple DHCP Requests

been preceded by a large spike (nothing else failed though). The Charger is under Warranty, so I want to marshal my facts before I call back. -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Online, Jitsi, Tuesday, 2021-02-02 20:00 Check to whom you are replying Meetings, mailing

Re: [Dorset] Recommendations for webcam?

r site the cheapest don't have all the features that mine does unless you pay £80-£90. I'm sure I didn't pay that. There seem to be a few on eBay: https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html? _from=R40&_trksid=p2546172.m570.l1313&_nkw=Logitech+Quickcam+Deluxe+S7500&_sacat=0 --

Re: [Dorset] Laptop cooling

ained how they work. Apparently it is not uncommon for the pipe to leak allowing the partial vacuum to fill and the vaporisation process to stop. Just in case you didn't know :-) -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Online, Jitsi, Tuesday, 2021-01-05 20:00 Check to whom you are

Re: [Dorset] Old Books - Junk?

d of some (originally) quite expensive but out of date text books some years ago. The charity shops didn't want them because they had more books than they could easily shift and those were novels etc. -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Online, Jitsi, Tuesday, 2021-01-05 20:0

[Dorset] Next Meeting - Tonight at 8 pm

.AppImage ./jitsi-meet-x86_64.AppImage and then entering ‘dorset-lug’ as the meeting ID. Hope to see you all this evening. -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Online, Jitsi, Tuesday, 2021-01-05 20:00 Check to whom you are replying Meetings, mailing list, IRC, ... http

[Dorset] Next Meeting - One Week Tonight

(and hopefully somewhat better than the last one). -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Online, Jitsi, Tuesday, 2021-01-05 20:00 Check to whom you are replying Meetings, mailing list, IRC, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk New thread, don't hijack: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk

Re: [Dorset] No Response in alsamixer and Error from amixer

the system (8 so far). The Minster Music and Bells System will only ever have two Pis (which is one more than it was before). -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Online, Jitsi, Tuesday, 2021-01-05 20:00 Check to whom you are replying Meetings, mailing list, IRC, ... http://dorset.lu

Re: [Dorset] No Response in alsamixer and Error from amixer

On Friday, 18 December 2020 12:41:27 GMT Terry Coles wrote: > amixer: Invalid command! > > After this failure alsamixer has no control over the volume level. However, > once the amixer command is working so is alsamixer. I fixed this by re-installing everything from scr

Re: [Dorset] No Response in alsamixer and Error from amixer

Also, I'm launching alsamixer from the command line. -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Online, Jitsi, Tuesday, 2020-01-05 20:00 Check to whom you are replying Meetings, mailing list, IRC, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk New thread, don't hijack: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk

[Dorset] No Response in alsamixer and Error from amixer

it seems to refuse to do anything. -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Online, Jitsi, Tuesday, 2020-01-05 20:00 Check to whom you are replying Meetings, mailing list, IRC, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk New thread, don't hijack: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk

Re: [Dorset] Distributed computing for COVID

C because the 2020.10 update to Kubuntu broke it. Even back in October it looked as though work on COVID had all but stopped on Rosetta, so I didn't expend too much energy trying to fix the problem. -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Online, Jitsi, Tuesday, 2020-01-05 20:0

Re: [Dorset] Issues with mpg321 / mpg123 - Part 1

ten so that the program spends the bulk of it's time in the delay: while 1: # Idle until Opening Hours is true and an event occurs. time.sleep(2**31-1) which if I recall correctly was suggested by you :-) -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Online, Jitsi, T

Re: [Dorset] Issues with mpg321 / mpg123 - Part 2

ope that I didn't offend you by being so defensive. If I did, then I apologise too. -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Online, Jitsi, Tuesday, 2020-01-05 20:00 Check to whom you are replying Meetings, mailing list, IRC, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk New thread, don't hij

Re: [Dorset] Issues with mpg321 / mpg123 - Part 1

bal_view_of_ALSA_config_file_f > ramework.2C_executive_summary describes how the configuration files tie > together. Thanks. I'll have a look at that. -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Online, Jitsi, Tuesday, 2020-01-05 20:00 Check to whom you are replying Me

Re: [Dorset] Issues with mpg321 / mpg123 - Part 2

ix it badly enough to > actually do it. I would agree with your last statement up to a point. If there is an alternative, why would I want to fix it? However, I still say that I would have fixed it if I could. -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Online, Jitsi, Tuesday, 202

Re: [Dorset] Issues with mpg321 / mpg123 - Part 2

nyone can shed any light on the original issue with mpg321 in my other post, since it is clearly a better solution to my requirement. -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Online, Jitsi, Tuesday, 2020-01-05 20:00 Check to whom you are replying Meetings, mailing list, IRC,

Re: [Dorset] Issues with mpg321 / mpg123 - Part 2

123/bugs/198/#9153 Hmmm. So the author thinks legions of people will want to play the individual tracks multiple times but not loop the entire playlist like every MP3 Player I've ever used. I can't see why anyone wouldn't want to do that. -- Terry Coles -- Next mee

Re: [Dorset] Issues with mpg321 / mpg123 - Part 1

mment : 0 Genre : Classical Playing MPEG stream from 01 Marche Episcopale.mp3 ... MPEG 1.0 layer III, 160 kbit/s, 44100 Hz joint-stereo Can't open libao driver with device hw:0,0 (is device in use?) -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Onli

Re: [Dorset] Issues with mpg321 / mpg123 - Part 2

. (I'm running it now to see what happens.) However mpg 123 is supposed to do this itself (as mpg321 does) and I feel that it has to be simpler and use less resources to use the functionality provided. -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Online, Jitsi, Tuesday, 2020-01-0

[Dorset] Issues with mpg321 / mpg123 - Part 2

, but (obviously) does not loop. If I include the looping switches, it loops round the first file in the playlist and not the playlist. Can anyone shed light on what I've done wrong? -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Online, Jitsi, Tuesday, 2020-01-05 20:00 Check to whom

[Dorset] Issues with mpg321 / mpg123 - Part 1

) but have been unable to shed any light on the problem. Part 2 of this description will detail an Issue that arose when I tried to use mpg123 instead of mpg321 (since that is what is recommended). -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Online, Jitsi, Tuesday, 2020-01-05 20:00

[Dorset] Online Meeting Tonight at 8 pm

.AppImage ./jitsi-meet-x86_64.AppImage and then entering ‘dorset-lug’ as the meeting ID. Hope to see you all this evening. -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Online, Jitsi, Tuesday, 2020-12-01 20:00 Check to whom you are replying Meetings, mailing list, IRC, ... http

[Dorset] Next Meeting - One Week Tonight

Hi, The next Meeting will be one week tonight 2020-12-01 at 2000 using Jitsi. Details are as for the previous meetings, but they will be re-posted on the day. -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Online, Jitsi, Tuesday, 2020-12-01 20:00 Check to whom you are replying

Re: [Dorset] funny in python software

Kate didn't know what to do with a .2 file. -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Online, Jitsi, Tuesday, 2020-12-01 20:00 Check to whom you are replying Meetings, mailing list, IRC, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk New thread, don't hijack: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk

Re: [Dorset] Waveshare 1.5 inch OLED Display

ot available) -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Online, Jitsi, Tuesday, 2020-12-01 20:00 Check to whom you are replying Meetings, mailing list, IRC, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk New thread, don't hijack: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk

Re: [Dorset] Waveshare 1.5 inch OLED Display

- ppa_amd64.deb and it worked! What's more the resulting image loaded on the Tiny-TV screen properly :-) Tomorrow, I'll modify the script to fetch a directory full of images and spit them all out as png files. Thanks Ralph. -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Online, Jitsi, Tues

Re: [Dorset] Waveshare 1.5 inch OLED Display

I can probably > provide the equivalent pipeline as a gmic(1) command. :-) It may come to that if I can't work out what is going on with the PPA. -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Online, Jitsi, Tuesday, 2020-12-01 20:00 Check to whom you are replying Meetings, m

Re: [Dorset] Waveshare 1.5 inch OLED Display

Can you tell me how to fix this? Also. I assume that 'pamseq 1 15' is telling pnmremap to change the image colormap to 16 levels. I would have expected the numbers to be 0 & 15 or 1 & 16. Any reason why 1 & 15 are used? -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Onl

[Dorset] Raspberry Pi 400 Design

for the kit it seems to be a pretty good buy for someone who hasn't much prior knowledge of computing in general and physical computing in particular. (I am a bit of an RPi fan BTW.) -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Online, Jitsi, Tuesday, 2020-11-03 20:00 Check to whom you

[Dorset] Online Meeting Tonight at 8 pm

.AppImage ./jitsi-meet-x86_64.AppImage and then entering ‘dorset-lug’ as the meeting ID. Hope to see you all this evening. -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Online, Jitsi, Tuesday, 2020-11-03 20:00 Check to whom you are replying Meetings, mailing list, IRC, ... http

Re: [Dorset] Next Online Meeting - One Week Tonight

lable, so it seems that I can't do it no matter how little time it might take. -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Online, Jitsi, Tuesday, 2020-11-03 20:00 Check to whom you are replying Meetings, mailing list, IRC, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk New thread, don

[Dorset] Next Online Meeting - One Week Tonight

Hi, The next Meeting will be one week tonight 2020-11-03 at 2000 using Jitsi. Details are as for the previous meetings, but they will be re-posted on the day. -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Online, Jitsi, Tuesday, 2020-11-03 20:00 Check to whom you are replying

Re: [Dorset] KDE - How to Disable Plasma Widgets

picked up on that until Patrick said that it was different for him. Anyway. Thanks for the help. -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Online, Jitsi, Tuesday, 2020-11-03 20:00 Check to whom you are replying Meetings, mailing list, IRC, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk New thre

Re: [Dorset] KDE - How to Disable Plasma Widgets

the > long-run, if nobody can work around them by locking widgets. Perhaps the developers don't use the middle mouse button to simulate a double click. -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Online, Jitsi, Tuesday, 2020-11-03 20:00 Check to whom you are replying Meetings,

Re: [Dorset] KDE - How to Disable Plasma Widgets

a meta-package. It is not, it appears to have all of the widgets encapsulated in one file which installs around 375 component files. My best bet seems to be pursuing the 'Lock Widgets' functionality mentioned by Patrick which seems to have been removed from this version. --

Re: [Dorset] KDE - How to Disable Plasma Widgets

ck functionality seems to have been removed in 5.18.5. -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Online, Jitsi, Tuesday, 2020-11-03 20:00 Check to whom you are replying Meetings, mailing list, IRC, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk New thread, don't hijack: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk

Re: [Dorset] KDE - How to Disable Plasma Widgets

he plasma-widgets-addons Package which gets rid of a lot of stuff that I do use. -- Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Online, Jitsi, Tuesday, 2020-11-03 20:00 Check to whom you are replying Meetings, mailing list, IRC, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk New thread, don'

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