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On Saturday, 6 August 2016 19:59:47 BST Patrick Wigmore wrote:
> On Saturday 06 Aug 2016, at 18:45:45, Terry Coles wrote:
> > ...what I need to know is can people play the samples on the
> > page below with a Windows Phone or older iPhone or iPad?
>
> I tried the page in Sa
as I'm aware, .mp3 has worked on Android for ever, but if anyone knows
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On Wednesday, 1 February 2017 12:32:15 GMT Ralph Corderoy wrote:
> Glad to hear work on the Wimborne Model Town time machine has continued
> apace.
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On Monday, 6 February 2017 16:19:26 GMT Terry Coles wrote:
> I have just installed a shiny new Netgear VSDL Router to replace the never
> updated Plusnet supplied one.
>
> The main reasons that I bought it is that the Plusnet router has the above
> mentioned lack of s
, a YouView TV box and this Dell Optiplex
running Kubuntu.
I'm assuming that the problem is the incredibly early version of Android on
the Transformer, but has anyone got any other ideas?
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happens afterwards that seems to be the problem.
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riginal plan was to have the landing
page automatically open when the user connects to the WiFi (rather like the
cloud does in the pub). If I can't work out how to do that (I haven't really
looked at that bit yet), then a QR code would be a good alternative.
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filenames, because it worked
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t
works!
Presumably, Apache works some magic to ignore the case, whereas nginx doesn't.
Thanks for all the clues (which I didn't always get).
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Guide and Quiz was what was
needed.
Why would that be?
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Repo
Quiz, by typing in
the links I gave you to my own webserver and it works. On the Raspberry Pi
they didn't, even when the code (meaning directory names) was identical to
that on my domain. When I shortened the directory names (and changed the
Audio Guide html page to index.html), everything worked.
there are
three tracks to play.
So you see, for most cases it isn't enough to simply kill the MP3 player.
There are generally at least one other thing that needs doing; hence my query
about threaded or multi-processed function calls.
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getting inside the Minster Model, so they will be relying on counting
the switches from one end. This was to give them confidence that they had
pressed the right switch and it had worked.
I may have more questions after I've had a chance to try all this ;-)
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function. These functions are where I put my code to change the state of the
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in and ensure it doesn't
> happen?
No I've proved that. The chimes are fired off using subprocess.Popen() and so
is the mp3 player, change rings etc. It works well.
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the GIL.
> Your callbacks will need a `gpio' or `channel' parameter else I'd expect
> an error when GPIO tries to call them.
I never tried it without one; if I copy code then I don't change anything that
doesn't look as if it needs changing :-)
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. This is going to take a bit of thinking about.
Unfortunately, I'll have to sleep on it, because my daughter came to stay for
the weekend this morning, so I'll not be able to dedicate as much time to it
as I'd have liked.
I'll report back tomorrow with an update on what's working, (or not).
-
On Sunday, 19 February 2017 17:48:48 GMT Stephen Wolff wrote:
> might be mime types but i'd have thought nginx would have mp3s by default
> (if thats the audio file type)
They are all MP3s. What should I be looking for?
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can't see that that is relevant.
Any ideas what could be going on here?
The latest pages are working on my website at:
http://hadrian-way.co.uk/Audio_Guide/audio_guide.html
and
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> *Bah*
Peter,
The change was not unreasonable, because the device was wide open otherwise,
with SSH on by default, with login to a default username and password.
Do you really not have any means to access the Pi other than SSH? I bought a
cheap HDMI to VGA adapter off amazon and an almost
mplicted browser
> isn't involved. What `hostname' are you using in the URL?
>
> curl -sS http://127.1/now.txt # On the Pi.
> curl -sS http://FIXME/now.txt # Elsewhere.
I'll report back tomorrow.
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On Wednesday, 22 February 2017 15:10:21 GMT Terry Coles wrote:
> while chr_control:
> c_player.poll() # check to see if terminated
> if c_player.returncode != None:
> break
> time.sleep(0.1)
>
> if c_play
I'm still working my way through the rest of your message and the earlier one,
but I have other stuff to do elsewhere today, so I may not get round to trying
out your suggestions until tomorrow.
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BTW, pylint is extremely useful and does a far better job of checking for
errors than Idle. Most important of all is that it doesn't stop when it hits
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m/product/0636920028154.do[1] )
in
paper and ebook versions.
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rry/Development/Wimborne_Model_Town/Winter_2016-17_Projects/
Code/Minster_Bells/Scheduler_V2.py
>>>
2016-08-21 15:15:00.006585
No handlers could be found for logger "apscheduler.scheduler"
The debugger doesn't really help, so how can I find out what I'm doing wrong?
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> > Add `import logging' to your other imports, and then immediately after
> > try `logging.basicConfig()'.
>
> I've done that and am currently waiting for the next schedule job to occur
> (1600). Where should I expec
Pi Zero,
but I never thought of compiling it to check the error.
Thanks for your help. I have another question, but I'll start a new thread ;)
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+ "O'clock")
Unfortunately, when I tried it I got run-time errors because of argument
mismatches (I tried (1) and ('One'). I couldn't see an example in my Python
book, so kind of ran out of ideas.
Does anyone know what will work?
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ong as the user is made aware of the possibility of delay.
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threading.html#threadin
On Thursday, 2 March 2017 13:34:19 GMT Terry Coles wrote:
> I think that I should be testing for not r in the if statement (because it
> works) and adding a timeout. What would be a reasonable timeout in this
> case? If I've understood the documentation correctly, it doesn't really
e meeting.
We can certainly have a look. There is 'The Cloud' Internet access there, so
you might have to sign up to download packages, etc , if you haven't already
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from 'logging on' on the Web using his phone. Could this have
> caused the problem?
He should get in touch with the GMX administrator and get them to sort it out
toot sweet. Whether the blacklisted IP is yours or his, neither should be, so
they either need to change their DNSBL or sort out thei
better off by the Windows one and dual-booting that.
Anyway, thanks Ralph for sorting it out for me.
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up questions in the past
> with interesting answers.
No such luck I'm afraid. Very few hits on 9350 and only about a dozen on
XPS-13. Nothing that was useful.
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, I
would never have known *why* it broke in the first place.
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ost, the XPS-13 is a really nice machine, but it
is let down by the total lack of support from Dell.
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On Wednesday, 5 October 2016 18:29:58 BST Terry Coles wrote:
> My main gripe with Dell in this instance is that they actually charged more
> for this machine than its Windows counterpart, but provided less support.
> Windows customers get access to downloads of the driver, utilities and a
at they couldn't help me
because this Operating System was unsupported. In the end I took legal advice
and they gave me a new machine, but they still don't support it.
How not to keep your customers happy.
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grub menu? I'll be bringing
the
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re-install Kubuntu, it might all burst into life, but
that's a bit drastic, so I
might just wait until (K)ubuntu 16.10 is released next week. That will include
kernel V 4.8
which brings several extras to the party which will (hopefully) enable some
more of my
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u have secure boot disabled, you shouldn't need a UEFI partition AFAIK.
> Have I done it correctly.
It seems not. Can anyone else help?
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him for the details of what he did and what his
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Try:
* Checking the connection
* Checking the proxy and the firewall[1]
ERR_CONNECTION_CLOSED '
I saw no Advanced option, just a link to a boilerplate page about security in
either
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The problem is in the low-level bluetooth code somewhere, not in the GUI tool
provided to make the connections. I tracked it down on a x86 forum, but I
can't remember which one.
Do these symptoms look anything like yours?
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All I did was click reply.
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Reporting bu
rks fine. I also find that people who
send to me and CC the list also cause me to get it wrong.
Ralph, I have a vague recollection that this was changed some years ago to
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this from the OS), but I haven't found a way to obtain the PID of the mpg321
instance from within my script yet. That method also seems a bit 'harsh'.
Has anyone got any suggestions?
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ard inputs.
I'll see where this takes me.
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On Sunday, 6 November 2016 14:37:53 GMT William R Sowerbutts wrote:
> Whipped this quick demo up; it will play at most five seconds of each MP3
> file in the current directory. Tested with both mpg321 and mpg123.
Will,
Thanks for this. I had got as far as getting Popen to play the music, (it
On Sunday, 6 November 2016 16:46:16 GMT Andrew wrote:
> seem to just work on Ubuntu 16.04. I've attached a simple player program
Andrew,
The list doesn't accept attachments, can you send it to my address instead of
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that, the following line was also stripped out:
'I've tried every possible incantation of -f that I can think of, but always
get the same result.'
On Friday, 11 November 2016 10:55:32 GMT Terry Coles wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've just received a set of these:
>
> https://thepihut.com/pro
is it that doesn't like the format; the device or the tool?
2. If it's the tool; how do I write it to make it work.
BTW. I really want to do this using mpg123 eventually, but I haven't found a
tutorial to
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Now I am trying to work out how to direct the output of mpg123 to the same
audio devices. The format of the command seems to be different to aplay and
it keeps defaulting to the PC sound card.
Any thoughts on that anyone?
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On Friday, 11 November 2016 13:35:27 GMT Terry Coles wrote:
> Now I am trying to work out how to direct the output of mpg123 to the same
> audio devices. The format of the command seems to be different to aplay and
> it keeps defaulting to the PC sound card.
>
> Any thoughts
On Friday, 11 November 2016 13:47:40 GMT PeterM wrote:
> On 11/11/16 13:38, Terry Coles wrote:
> > Never mind, I've done it.
>
> Usually Thunderbird stacks all responses under the initial email so
> that they are easy to follow, but on this occasion it has not happened.
>
ED is dead. Bah!
Exactly. There was me racking my brains to work out why the music wouldn't
play, only to find out that there was nothing wrong with what I was doing; it
was the music that was faulty ;-)
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versatile.
Assuming that no-one on this list has got this to work, is anyone aware of a
tool that can be used under any OS? Could something be done with some kind of
Portable App perhaps?
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I meant to send this to the list, but Tim CCs the List, so my message went to
him instead...
On Tuesday, 25 October 2016 12:46:50 BST Tim wrote:
> On 25/10/16 11:18, Terry Coles wrote:
> > Assuming that no-one on this list has got this to work, is anyone aware of
> > a tool t
copied the text from within a terminal displaying the output of 'man
aplay'.
The last missing line, I typed myself.
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start now, since we're still waiting for some
hardware, but the priority is the bells, so I may not get far on this for a
few weeks or months.
I'll report on progress (with more questions I expect) in due course.
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a starter (preferably in Python), I'd
definitely give it a go.
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the user doesn't
break things,
but since the data to be changed is all in simple strings, I see no need to
rewrite what I
have to put the data into a database. String handling I've done (in C and some
other
languages). Database queries have always seemed a bit of a black art to simple
old me :-)
Any co
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ep threatening to abandon KDE, but the trouble is that I like more than I
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://www.kubuntuforums.net/showthread.php?70939-Kontact-Error-Akonadi-Service-Not-Running=393896=1#post393896
Hopefully this might save one or two people some grief.
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is currently unavailable because Dell are updating the
XPS-13 to the Kaby Lake processor.
Here we go again
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the
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On Saturday, 10 December 2016 10:14:35 GMT Terry Coles wrote:
> My cunning plan thereby comes crashing around my ears. I only have one of
> the devices here at the moment, but it advertises iSerial as '0', so I've
> no doubt the others will also be called that.
>
> The sys
one's a spare) until
Monday, but I'll certainly have a look then.
It'll need extensive testing to be sure of the solution though.
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ut that would require that the
Wimborne Model Town Staff have a means to create the specially crafted mp3
files. I'd rather not go down that path.
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On Saturday, 10 December 2016 12:00:37 GMT Terry Coles wrote:
> On Saturday, 10 December 2016 11:45:03 GMT William R Sowerbutts wrote:
> > You can write a udev rule to name the device according to the USB port it
> > is plugged into (either on the host or a downstream hub). This sh
On Thursday, 1 December 2016 17:28:16 GMT Terry Coles wrote:
> All,
>
> This last week has been just one damn thing after another so I forgot the
> usual reminder on Tuesday. Hopefully, I'm over the bad patch, so:
>
> The next meeting is now less than one week tonig
/wiki/doku.php?id=meetings:pub#the_broadway
Paul,
Are you going?
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On Thursday, 5 January 2017 14:10:38 GMT Terry Coles wrote:
> It looks as though I could fix this with a multi-TT hub, as suggested by
> William, but the cost may be prohibitive. There is a hub that is specific
> to the Zero that is sold by the Pi Hut for £10. I would need to
o be
interactive, so that they don't try to fight each other and so that we can play
a wedding sequence which consists of bells chiming in the Tower, a Wedding
March and Widor's Toccata in the Chancel and then more bells in the Tower.
Doing it in a single device makes that much easier.
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other post).
The main reason I've avoided it to date is that we would need another PSU
brick as well as another Pi. The equipment and case for the mains supplies
has already been procured and only has room for two bricks, so the knock on
effect is fairly expensive.
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for. The file
'messages' seems
to contain a conglomeration of messages from the kernel and elsewhere, but I
can't see
anything that leaps out of the screen at me.
Does anyone know where I should be looking?
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Hi,
Don't forget the meeting tonight; 8 pm at the Broadway.
See:
http://dorset.lug.org.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=meetings:pub#the_broadway[1]
Paul and I will be there.
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[1] http://dorset.lug.org.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=meetings:pub#the_broadway
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d it when
> running my Pi off a battery bar, not that I had any operating issues.
No it's not overclocked.
Also, I forgot to mention; I get the same behaviour with my Pi 2.
I'm waiting for responses on various forums.
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okup
:-) I just answered this off-list (I didn't notice that steampunkprofessor
sent to me direct).
The answer is yes; that's exactly what I am doing.
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On Tuesday, 3 January 2017 14:23:45 GMT Terry Coles wrote:
> My previous request for a loan of a powered Hub took me a step closer to
> resolving my problem (thanks David). The problem is that although I think
> I know now what is causing the problem, I don't know what it
t make any sense. The sudo is
> required.
I added a line to config.txt; 'max_usb_current=1, which doubles the current
available to each device (in this case the whole hub) to 1.2 A. This was
advised by Jake on the ModMyPi forum, but it didn't help.
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aker-phone adaptors that I can borrow.
Otherwise, I suppose I could scrape together some USB hard disks, but they
tend to be self-powered, so not necessarily conclusive if they work.
I've now raised this on the Raspberry Pi Forum, so my next move is to see what
they say.
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rt of the development. We would either live without the spare or
bite the bullet and buy one more.
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ould need to ask them these questions to find out if they support at
least one
multi-TT channel.
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[1] http://hadrian-way.co.uk/Misc/Pi3_lsusb-v.txt
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functionality,
assuming
that my choice of scheduler is the best one for us. Those who have followed
this saga will
recall that I want to create and MP3 player to play organ music as well as ring
the bells
and I want the functions to be interactive.
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