So I bought this device to run Spillpass aka homepass. It initially showed me a screen when plugged in via hdmi. Now the tv says no signal. According to the program cycling MAC addresses the device is cycling the Macs properly and the wifi dongle is flashing properly. I am not sure whats wrong or...
@Ghanima Oh thanks! I just downloaded it and its pretty good
@goldilocks Is learning to program really necessary ?
I have a hard time with programming, and since time is money i think it would be cheaper for me to just pay people to create the code to do the automation i need
@Ghanima I was just gonna ping this one - I was wondering at the Academic Achievement level for the OP and I've plonked in a half-decent explanation of SSH but I am not sure they would be able to take it in having taken a quick glance at one of the Spillpass links which TBH does give some pointers...
Got my new Front door today (down a couple of £K - urrgh) but the Electric motor drive lock does exactly what it says on the tin. Bit concerned when the fitters arrived and the cable came out half way down the outside edge of the door frame - which was to go up against a square corner pillar...
... but the additional spacer in between meant we could get the cable out to the inside of the porch and I popped down to a local DIY store to get some trunking to run around the area to where my RPi and UPses and other gear will eventually be.
The lock can be operated with a (supplied 12V 2A PSU) and a three wire (useful) cable the 12V feed and a control voltage (apply 12V to unlock & hold unlock if maintained). No built in swooooshing sounds - but I might rig-up a "Glad to be of service" announcement from the RPi controller...!
The wiring does support the connection of a separate "opener" by two more of the wires but the contact is not present in the lock motor I paid for ( 8-( ) - an opener would have been a nice touch but there wasn't one on offer and I couldn't justify it...
Overly-simplified beginner-friendly SSH tutorial/crash course (Windows):
What is SSH?
SSH, or Secure SHell, is a way to use the command-line interface over the network.
Wait. What's a command line?
A command-line interface is a way to tell a computer what to do. The difference is instead o...
@Freedo As Jacob says, not strictly necessary if you have the budget, but realize paying someone to write custom code for you may quickly and easily run into the thousands of dollars unless you have a nice/interested friend. Of course, if your time is also worth money and you are really determined to do this, it might still be considered cheaper than the time it will take to learn programming sufficiently to do whatever it is you want to do.
@Jacobm001 Well, now you know. It is a whole lifestyle. I was just in the beer store here (they are gov. run) and they were selling tin signs that said, "DAD'S GARAGE: If we can't fix it, it ain't broke".
I hope Google has a Canned beer drinking' channel.
I'm not sure why we don't list them as terrorists. A lot of people I thought were intelligent are rallying behind them, and we're devoting a lot of time and attention to a rather simple issue.
I do occasionally worry about what would happen here if there were some kind of crazy civil war south of the border, or some militia group went berserk. Like, we do not have 4 guns per household. However, there is plenty of room to hide.
I went down to my parents place in Southern Oregon, which is far more red than Corvallis. I saw 6 different people open carrying weapons. 1 guy had an AK-47, another had a 10 gauge shotgun, and another had a 50 cal desert eagle with at least 50 bullets on his hip. THIS DOES NOT MAKE ME FEEL SAFER
What the hell use are those at Walmart? The idiots with a hero complex are far more likely to kill me than an active shooter. Plus, cops only have an accuracy of like 35% in an active shooter situation...
/rant
Ironically, that Walmart had everything on lockdown. Including $9 headphones. Very little is locked like that at the Walmart here :P
But in a place like Southern Oregon, that's often not a good idea for larger businesses. Making the idiot redneck with an assault weapon angry isn't really something anyone wants to handle.
I think that depends on the state. Now y'all gets health care, it would be reasonably on par a lot of places I think. Like, welfare in NYC seemed similar to what it is here. Social housing was probably better. When I arrived on the bus I could see all the NYCHA buildings coming in (covering something like 5% of the population) and thought, Who are these people, communists? I did not even know what they were at that point, it was just the fact they all look the same and are everywhere.
@Ghanima Gun loving rednecks don't need to feel welcome. They have guns.
Oh whoops its the internet.
I don't mind guns or rednecks, actually. You can hear shotguns from my house during duck season. I am glad they do not bring them to the Walmart though.
I don't think we have as many guns, but they aren't that unusual either. However, mostly long guns. It is a lot harder to get a handgun. And no assault rifles, bazooka, tactical nuclear weapons, etc.
@SteveRobillard It's a wow, I've finally got a place of my own and I'm an electronics enthusiast (and Bachelor of Electrical and Electronic Engineering)!
Looks like adding a second SD/MicroSD card reader/writer would be an idea - though the prices of USB 2.0 thumb drives (like Diesel fuel, now down to under £1/litre in UK) are dropping in price at the moment so that is more likely to be the most economic thing to do...
And what exactly is Haskell, what is it parentage (as a programming language) I presume?
@goldilocks Year of Graduation: 1988 - I'm not sure what the Computer Scientists are getting up to NOW - I recall back then they shared some of the simpler? EEE courses in the School of Engineering at University back in the day...
@goldilocks "Creme de la creme" oh, "Crème de la crème" - is it just my Country's closeness geographically to the French why I miss those accents on phrases and words from there?
Mudlet is not yet Internationalized but I worked on it last year for a few weeks (whilst on a extremely unusual for me) holiday - to the French Riviera - and working to get more than just plain ASCII (a.k.a. Latin1) to work was taking a lot of effort with all the assumptions make about a "character" taking up just one byte.
@Jacobm001 Given the resolution of Radio-carbon dating vis-à-vis relativistic effects you'd need to get very close to light-speed to produce resolvable differences between the two siblings anyhow...
I make use of the chat-room facilities provided on Stack Exchange, in particular I visit the main one specifically for the Raspberry Pi, i.e. "The Bakery". It is possible to be notified when someone addresses or targets a message to someone who has been there (recently I believe) - I would like...
Because the charge on my account ended up being significantly more than I expected.
I ordered one of these: blinkstick.com/products/blinkstick-strip, and it's case. It doesn't do the conversion for you. Apparently, the dumb American doesn't do well with fancy European monetary units.
I get pleasantly surprised when I get something from a well-know international auction website from the US of A. At present I'm awaiting the delivery of a remote control for an AV-tuner/amplifier I've had for ages but I'd bought it second-hand with no remote - the Shipping/Delivery of a new one from there is about 66% of the unit cost but with the exchange rate that comes out to about £23 - not too bad as I can't find the exact one even second hand in the UK (it's a USA made unit "Sherwood")...
@Jacobm001 Not for a RPi without a powered Hub I take it?
Overly-simplified beginner-friendly SSH tutorial/crash course (Windows):
What is SSH?
SSH, or Secure SHell, is a way to use the command-line interface over the network.
Wait. What's a command line?
A command-line interface is a way to tell a computer what to do. The difference is instead o...
I make use of the chat-room facilities provided on Stack Exchange, in particular I visit the main one specifically for the Raspberry Pi, i.e. "The Bakery". It is possible to be notified when someone addresses or targets a message to someone who has been there (recently I believe) - I would like...
The Bakery
The Bakery