Re: [PLUG] Evil thermostat

2022-01-03 Thread Erik Lane
You don't mention this, but since it's always 2 hours, is there a time zone setting in there that has gotten off? Maybe it's talking to a NTP server? On Mon, Jan 3, 2022 at 8:49 PM Chuck Hast wrote: > Folks, > Not sure where to take this but figured that I would get more > info here. > > I have

Re: [PLUG] Android question

2021-07-08 Thread Erik Lane
Raspberry Pi is ARM, so anything that runs on it, including Ubuntu, at least have distro support for ARM chips. I have no idea how well that would cross over to your hardware. Also, as an example, searching for installing Android on a Raspberry Pi gets all kinds of results, and they have links to

Re: [PLUG] scanning photo prints

2021-07-04 Thread Erik Lane
I had an Epson V- something. (Maybe 600, but the pictures don't look quite right.) This was probably 2007-8 or so. It did transparencies as well as photographs. It did a good-enough job for my needs. It would work with Linux, but the automatic color adjustments and AI-dust removal were

Re: [PLUG] OT: Looking for FOSS Recommendations for Telephone Speech to Text Devices for the Hard of Hearing

2021-02-22 Thread Erik Lane
I'm not sure it's what you're looking for, as again it's software, and it might take a decently fast cpu/gpu to run it, but Mozilla is working on an open source speech recognition engine. https://github.com/mozilla/DeepSpeech I've come across mentions of it multiple times, but I've never sat

Re: [PLUG] Silent addition of Microsoft repo to Raspi OS

2021-02-07 Thread Erik Lane
does have > the effect of telling Microsoft about every installed version of > Raspberry Pi OS as it does package archive updates. > > sudo rm /etc/apt/sources.list.d/vscode.list > > fixes the problem. > > On Sun, Feb 7, 2021 at 12:56 PM Erik Lane wrote: > > > >

Re: [PLUG] Silent addition of Microsoft repo to Raspi OS

2021-02-07 Thread Erik Lane
Well, I had just done a dist-upgrade on a raspberry pi this past week, so I checked it, and the sources.list file only has a single entry: the raspbian.raspberrypi.org one. This is on the latest 'buster' version on a model 4B V1.2 with 4GB, but I doubt that matters. Just to be sure, I ran another

Re: [PLUG] Resolved: No sound

2020-12-19 Thread Erik Lane
I've had stuff like that happen when it was confused and thought that it was a sound output when it was an input. Though I don't remember how I fixed it. Probably just whatever GUI sound configuration tool was installed. On Sat, Dec 19, 2020 at 9:42 PM Dick Steffens wrote: > The solution to my

Re: [PLUG] Recording non-downloadable videos

2020-09-23 Thread Erik Lane
On Wed, Sep 23, 2020 at 5:37 AM Rich Shepard wrote: > On Tue, 22 Sep 2020, Nat Taylor wrote: > > > looks pretty easy with ffmpeg too if you're feeling all command line and > > not wanting to install extra stuff... > > https://www.markbuckler.com/post/cutting-ffmpeg/ > > This is that dude's

Re: [PLUG] monitoring camera

2020-07-24 Thread Erik Lane
I saw a review of the Wyze security camera that was pretty positive on it. It's dirt cheap ~$26 at Amazon. I was impressed because of all it packed in for that price, but I'm not really in the market, so I didn't pay a ton of attention. Sorry, but I can't give any more in depth info. Looks like

Re: [PLUG] Plex shuffling of music

2020-07-24 Thread Erik Lane
https://forums.plex.tv/t/how-can-i-get-plex-to-shuffle-all-songs-in-my-library-and-not-just-shuffle-the-ablums/235643/4 It will shuffle all if you have the music shown by track instead of by album or artist and then hit the shuffle button. On Fri, Jul 24, 2020 at 12:52 PM Michael Rasmussen

Re: [PLUG] Raspberry Pi component/sub-assembly selection guides

2020-05-03 Thread Erik Lane
Darn it, I left off the touchscreen part. My actual search was meant to be "raspberry pi zero touchscreen battery" On Sun, May 3, 2020 at 11:49 AM Erik Lane wrote: > I'm not sure what the difficulty is. If you simply search for "raspberry > pi zero battery" you'll fin

Re: [PLUG] Raspberry Pi component/sub-assembly selection guides

2020-05-03 Thread Erik Lane
I'm not sure what the difficulty is. If you simply search for "raspberry pi zero battery" you'll find examples of people doing this. Unless you're also thinking of other hardware that you also want to add to it? At least so far, it sounds like a super-basic thing that has already been done plenty

Re: [PLUG] Remote video conferencing [RESOLVED]

2020-03-25 Thread Erik Lane
You can fully participate in a Zoom call by telephone. You don't need a webcam to ask questions. If there's video, of course you would need a computer running for that, but dial-in works for both listening and talking, just like any teleconference service. On Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 11:54 AM Rich

Re: [PLUG] Disney +

2019-12-17 Thread Erik Lane
der how I came up with what I said! > > Great that it works. > > On Tue, Dec 17, 2019, 20:30 Erik Lane wrote: > > > I went ahead and tried this on my laptop that has Linux. It worked just > > fine. It only asked me to push a button that allowed DRM playback. (Just > a >

Re: [PLUG] Disney +

2019-12-17 Thread Erik Lane
I went ahead and tried this on my laptop that has Linux. It worked just fine. It only asked me to push a button that allowed DRM playback. (Just a little authorization banner on the top of the screen.) It wasn't the best video quality, because that laptop is old and couldn't quite handle it. If I

Re: [PLUG] Meraki MR24 WAP and PoE

2019-11-18 Thread Erik Lane
ot; and used lower (12-24V) voltage PoE instead. > Meraki > > isn't price sensitive hardware. > > > > On Mon, Nov 18, 2019 at 9:01 PM Erik Lane wrote: > > > >> If this will do it, it would be a cheap and easy fix. > >> > >> > https://www.amazo

Re: [PLUG] Meraki MR24 WAP and PoE

2019-11-18 Thread Erik Lane
If this will do it, it would be a cheap and easy fix. https://www.amazon.com/BeElion-Passive-Injector-Splitter-Connector/dp/B01HMNJHII/ I've been planning something similar to run a raspberry pi in a location away from a power outlet. Since I don't need hardly any power, the 12V will be just fine

Re: [PLUG] Reverse SSH tunneling with HTTP proxy

2019-07-08 Thread Erik Lane
On Mon, Jul 8, 2019 at 11:56 AM Rodney W. Grimes wrote: > > On Sun, Jul 7, 2019 at 4:44 PM Rodney W. Grimes < > free...@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> > > wrote: > > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > > > I'm very possibly going about this the wrong way. I've tried all > manner > > > of > > > > search terms that I

Re: [PLUG] Reverse SSH tunneling with HTTP proxy

2019-07-08 Thread Erik Lane
ll. I think that should be enough, since I can get SSH access to the server at his house anytime I want. It's just the http forwarding that is stymieing me at the moment. Thanks! Erik -Tomas > > On Sun, 2019-07-07 at 16:29 -0700, Erik Lane wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I'm very po

Re: [PLUG] Reverse SSH tunneling with HTTP proxy

2019-07-08 Thread Erik Lane
On Sun, Jul 7, 2019 at 4:44 PM Rodney W. Grimes wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I'm very possibly going about this the wrong way. I've tried all manner > of > > search terms that I can think of with variations of what I put in the > > subject line. > > > > Basically, for a long time it worked very

[PLUG] Reverse SSH tunneling with HTTP proxy

2019-07-07 Thread Erik Lane
Hello, I'm very possibly going about this the wrong way. I've tried all manner of search terms that I can think of with variations of what I put in the subject line. Basically, for a long time it worked very well to just open an SSH tunneling command to connect to the network at my dad's house

Re: [PLUG] HP G62 AMD Dual Core laptop...

2019-05-27 Thread Erik Lane
You know, I bet that the best place to ask about a vendor to purchase a pre-installed Linux laptop with Labview would simply be National Instruments themselves. They might not sell it themself, but I bet they have a handle on their main customers and would have heard through support of who is

Re: [PLUG] circuit design and simulation software

2019-03-22 Thread Erik Lane
The way I learned it, from an engineer who worked at Intel for many years doing this stuff, was that the only serious tools in this space were text based, as the gui ones hid too much and provided less flexibility. Yes, you can still use text files, but it's not their default. (I don't remember

Re: [PLUG] circuit design and simulation software

2019-03-21 Thread Erik Lane
Hi Rod, Well, this is not a front end for the Spice that you have. (Spice is good, and very useful, but it's not so much 'drag and drop' as it feels like you're asking for.) When I was in school, I was told of this simulator by a classmate, and it was a wonderful thing to get a sense of what is

Re: [PLUG] Modem Retrains Every 1/2 hour or so

2019-03-21 Thread Erik Lane
019 at 7:20 PM Erik Lane wrote: > > > Sounds like a bad connection to me. > > > > > Yes, sounds like a bad wire or bad connection to me also. You could run a > speed test and see if your bandwidth is being degraded also. > > Bill > > > > > >

Re: [PLUG] Modem Retrains Every 1/2 hour or so

2019-03-21 Thread Erik Lane
Sounds like a bad connection to me. But I'm not an expert and haven't seen that particular problem before. However, my best advice to take care of it is to ignore the call centers and find your closest retail store. Go there in person and talk to someone. They'll likely send out a tech, and

Re: [PLUG] DSL Issues

2019-03-21 Thread Erik Lane
While I'm not an expert on it, I think that the frequencies used by DSL currently are about the same as they always were. It's possible that they leave a little more 'buffer room' between the DSL frequencies and the lower phone ones. While people would complain about the DSL noise, I thought that

Re: [PLUG] Free server Racks

2019-03-01 Thread Erik Lane
nt-helens-45u-server-rack/6822313862.html > > Are you sure? That looks the same, and it works for me in incognito mode, > that's the link CL provided anyway. > > On Fri, Mar 1, 2019 at 11:12 AM Erik Lane wrote: > > > Just a heads-up that the link is broken for those of us

Re: [PLUG] Free server Racks

2019-03-01 Thread Erik Lane
Just a heads-up that the link is broken for those of us who don't own that account. :) Here's what worked for me: https://portland.craigslist.org/wsc/ele/d/saint-helens-45u-server-rack/6822313862.html On Fri, Mar 1, 2019 at 11:01 AM Ronald Bynoe wrote: > My last email to the list got eaten due

Re: [PLUG] Need New Computer

2019-02-22 Thread Erik Lane
Well, if a 12-year old computer was meeting your needs, perhaps my sister's old computer would be good enough for you. It looks like she wiped it out by reinstalling windows back on it. It does have SATA, and the sticker on the side of it claims 320GB drive, but I didn't verify that. She's not the

Re: [PLUG] Linux and renewable energy?

2018-11-16 Thread Erik Lane
Well, at this point I would be surprised if Linux wasn't being used in all of those places, but I've never looked into it. As far as home automation, there's quite a bit, and at least a large portion of it would run very happily on a Raspberry Pi. See this page for some links to different

Re: [PLUG] Rsync again

2018-10-06 Thread Erik Lane
That would be nice to be able to stop it in that way. I'm not a Linux guru, so I'd also like to hear if there's some way to do that. However, I just wanted to say that I always use -P as one of the options, and this will resume partial downloads. So if you have to stop it and then resume later,

Re: [PLUG] Kicad help needed

2018-07-15 Thread Erik Lane
by the footprint name. Is there a way to tell the drill file how to use > the Cmts.user layer? > > -Denis > > On Sat, Jul 14, 2018 at 6:05 PM, Erik Lane wrote: > > > That sounds to me like you're actually creating a plated hole, if the > drill > > size is larger t

Re: [PLUG] Kicad help needed

2018-07-14 Thread Erik Lane
gt; denis.heidtm...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > Erik, > > > > Thanks for the offer. I will let you know if I do not undo the logjam in > > a reasonable time. Paul has offered some very helpful suggestions which > I > > hope will get me where I need to be. > > >

Re: [PLUG] Kicad help needed

2018-07-12 Thread Erik Lane
I'm out of town for the next ten days or so, but over I'm back if you still need help with this I can meet you somewhere. I live in Vancouver, so would usually prefer something North of the river, unless he can coordinate with some other errands in running over there. I'm by no means an expert,

Re: [PLUG] Another SpiritOne Question

2017-12-11 Thread Erik Lane
I've also had mostly good luck with Century Link. I had issues with their corporate people, but my local office (I'm in Vancouver) took care of me no problem. I found it much quicker and easier to get things taken care of and fixed by going into the office in person. I've never had a wait there