The plugin AutomaticShutdown (https://plugins.octoprint.org/plugins/automaticshutdown/) is great if you want to turn off your Printer after your print is finished. In my case I have the Octopi, the printer and a LED-lamp attached to a Fritz!Dect 200 remote controlled powersocket and configured it to turn itself off when the powerconsumption sinks below 12 Watts for 5 Minutes. So if the print is finished the autoshutdown-plugin shuts down the OctoPi. The socket detects the lower powerconsumption and shuts off itself off after the specified time… Save some energy here…
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Running your own matrix-server
Matrix is an open standard and communication protocol for real-time communication. In short: something like Signal, Threema or WhatsApp. With one exception: while the former are centrally managed via a company Matrix Servers are federated: Everybody can run a Matrix server. Furthermore every server is able to communicate with any other matrix server. Like e-mail servers. Signal cannot (yet) talk the Threema and vice versa. Matrix has even been chosen by the german army to be there messenger of choice for obvious reasons: The army can run their own servers and is independent from others running servers for them (that...
Continue reading...Invidious – alternative youtube frontend
Youtube is a great source for music and videos. Nobody will doubt that. However there are “flaws” like user-tracking and annoying advertisement. Therefore Invidious is a great tool. It provides a alternative frontend to youtube without any of the flaws. It can be installed on your own vps. You can find the source on github: https://github.com/iv-org/invidious Please feel free to use my invidous instance on https://video.arvidortwig.de
Continue reading...weather info from cli
I stumbled across a nice service: wttr.in It shows weather forecast in ASCII. In order to look up the weather forecast for a desired city type in: The source can be found at github: https://github.com/chubin/wttr.in
Continue reading...Raspi Babycam v3 with MotionEye
On the open source social network Mastodon I am following gnulinux.ch who brings up interesting news all around GNU/Linux. So gnulinux.ch has recently posted news about a release of the MotionEye Software which is a web-based frontend for motion. Usually motionEye and motion are used to record videostreams when motion is detected on one of the attached cameras. This is especially useful for security and surveillance cameras but I wanted to simply use MotionEye to show a videostream on a Website vor app and use it for a better version of my babycam v.1 and babycam v.2 MotionEye is using...
Continue reading...Donations 2021
At the end of the year people usually tend to be generous and start donating. So am I 😉 Here is an overview about my donations: Organisation Explanation Amount Sterntaler e.V. children’s hospice in Mannheim 100 € Digital Courage e.V. Organization fighting for rights in a digital world 100 € Netzpolitik.org Journalists fighting for rights in a digital world 50 € NABU e.V. environment association 100 € Free Software Foundation Europe Supports FLOSS in Europe 100 € I am thankful for a prosperous year and even more thankful that I can support the organizations I care about.
Continue reading...Use own letsencrypt ssl certs with Fritzbox
If you want to access the webui of the fritzbox underneath your own domain (static or dynamic dns) you can import the letsencrypt certs from your webserver (e.g. nginx in my case) to the fritzbox. First Step: Collect and install cert First login to your webserver and copy the certs for the fritzbox: Make sure you really paste privkey.pem AND fullchain.pem into the combined pem-file. Then import the fritz.pem file underneath: Internet –> Freigaben –> Fritzbox-Dienste –> Zertifikat Write down the IP and port at which the Fritzbox is reachable. Second step: Configure Fritzbox DNS-Rebind: Add your own domain e.g....
Continue reading...Resize Images with Gnome the easy way
Description for setting up the Plugin for Nautilus can be found here https://itsfoss.com/resize-images-with-right-click/ Nice !
Continue reading...Free Mediaserver “Jellyfin”
The podcast Radio Tux reported in August about the mediaserver software Jellyfin. The website can be found at https://jellyfin.org/ The usage is quite similar to Plex but everything is open source and freely available. The features are: Streaming over a webserver with multiple user accounts Streaming of movies, series and music DLNA provisioning for your home network Apps for iOS and Android (even from F-Droid) Plugin for KODI Integration of Metadata databases like musicbrains or moviedatabase to display pictures and additional information On the fly transcoding of music files (nice if you have mainly “huge” FLACs and want to stream...
Continue reading...Camera App for Pixel4a from GrapheneOS
I was unhappy with OpenCamera and the Stock camera app that comes with lineagos. It takes forever to focus the first picture if you open the camera app. I tried many settings, also the camera2api but nothing really fullfilled my expectations. On twitter I found out about GrapheneOS and that the guys are working on a camera app for Pixel Phones: https://github.com/GrapheneOS/Camera/releases I installed it and its really snappy. Let’s see how it turns out in the long run. Btw: I am not quite sure what to think about GrapheneOS: It seems like the most secure Android available atm but...
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