Category: os

Streaming Digital TV with the Raspberry Pi

Posted on November 19, 2019 by Gus

TVHeadend is now in the Raspbian software repo and if you have a USB Digital TV Tuner (DVB-T) you can stream live TV, timeshift and record.
Before you get the pitchforks out and start with the “HaVEn’T YoU heARd AboUT CaTChUP Tv?!” on me, let me explain.

Have a Shitty TV and no DVR? sorted

no internet? you’re good

love Kodi or vlc? it works with them

someone is using the TV and someone else is choking your connection with bittorrent? yep, you can still watch TV

The only other things you need to know is that the web interface is useless for streaming in the brower. A Pi 3 can only stream radio channels on it and a Pi 4 with 4gb of ram can only do standard definition. Don’t bother trying transcoding either. Sadly not all HD Channels are rebroadcast in SD so what you need to use it smoothly is Kodi or Vlc.

The play program button in the web frontend will download a m3u file which will open in Vlc or other video players.

Kodi will integrate the TV Guide and other features too.

This probably doesn’t appeal to everyone but it can be done. The people it does appeal to probably don’t watch much TV and the remainder will be pissed that this is not a tutorial.

Raspberry Pi in the car

Posted on November 19, 2019November 19, 2019 by Gus

This project was a big one. Displaying text only GPS information on the screen in the car. The Pi has no way to use the touchscreen input so you control it with Tasker on a smart watch, using services from your phone. It shows you your speed, GPS Coordinates and the street you are on by default but can show more with a push of a button.

I recommend NOT trying this but the startonbt.sh code was fun so have a look if bluetooth and bash are your thing.

more info and code here

Raspberry Pi Answering Machine

Posted on November 19, 2019April 23, 2022 by Gus

Only get scam calls or telemarkers that don’t respect the “do not call” list on your home phone?

Got a Raspberry Pi and a recent/shitty USB Modem?

This script will answer the phone, play a greeting and record a short message and let you listen to it at your leisure in a web browser.

By default it will store the message as an mp3 and play it if you have speakers attached.

There is logging and some conditions to see what you can do, if you want to add touch tone menus and run scripts.

This script was made for the fish but the motor movements have been removed in the link.

more details and the files can be found here soon

gglist

Posted on November 18, 2019September 8, 2021 by Gus

the code

A python script for windows to log selected running programs to CSV for use in excel.
I will generate some reports with it one day but for now it works well enough for me just logging the data.

ggconnect

Posted on November 18, 2019September 8, 2021 by Gus

get the code

A script to open programs from various URI in links, bookmarks, shortcuts and even into the run prompt or address bar. It will open SSH and Telnet links with Putty, SFTP with Filezilla, RDP with the built in Windows Terminal Server Client, VNC with RealVNC Viewer and will even ping hosts with a link!

This was written out of frustration as it should be a feature of windows and or each application. The links that this code handles work on Mac and Linux without needing this, except for ping

It will log successful and blocked attempts to a CSV file

There is no installer so put it into c:\ggconnect\
Run the Reg File to associate the URI’s to the script which formats the links and send them to the appropriate programs (which need to be installed if you don’t already use them) and away you go.