Plex - Management tools

Plex is a great media server, but sometime is necessary to have something extra to perform some operations, like for example extract the list of movies available on the server.

There is something out there, let see some choices.

Repairs - bread toaster

Our current bread toaster, a West Bend Model 78824, has now 6 years (given or taken) and half of it stopped to work.

One of the two levers is not engaging anymore.
So ... let's repair it !! 

Home Automation - remotely controlling lights from HA server via ssh

In order to control lights are years I'm using Heyu and HA-Bridge, running on a server.

Originally (and possible it will return there) was hosted by Opus, my server.

It is quite  a while now is running over a Raspberry Pi.
This article is about how to control X10 via Heyu from another computer in the network (hint, the network is not exposed to the outside)

The Old Lady Project - Introduction

Years ago (I think was the 2009) I  did buy, with the idea to restore it, an old tube radio, immediately called "The Old Lady".

The radio is a Truetone D-1001.

However the electronic was really in bad shape and of course, who the heck has time to work on it ?

So the Old Lady went in a box, waiting.

Server chronical - Digitemp - reading from DS1490F

Digitemp is a software capable to read Dallas 1Wire sensors for the temperature, the DS18S20.

It was in use on the old server for years in order to acquire different temperatures and thus control automatically some Fans in the server room.

Let's see if it can be revived in the new server.

Server chronicles - Drobo on ProLiant

 On the old server I used a USB Drobo unit to backup data.

In theory should be enough to connect the unit to the server to see it .. and in part is true, but there are some unexpected problems.

Updating the Ender 3 Pro - the controller

 

After 1 year of playing with the 3D printer Ender 3 Pro I decided to do some upgrades.

Changing the controller to improve accuracy, speed and noise, changing the display to better locally control some options and add the BLTouch, to simplify the leveling.

This article is about changing the controller and the TFT display

Ubuntu - media, from iso to mp4/mkv

This is a brief note to describe how to solve a problem.

After reinstalling my media server I decided to do some spring cleaning.

I did find many movies I did record years ago and created as iso image.

In this way unfortunately is not easy to see them directly on Plex, the best way is to convert them in mp4 (or mkv).

Server chronicles - Plex on ProLiant

 One of the goals I want to achieve rebuilding the server is to reinstall services in a better way.

One of the services is my Plex server

PiKVM - a KVM <-> IP on System76

Is always better to have a Plan B if the main plan fails.
My server has an embedded KVM (with an extra module installed - see the article Fixing the server - KVM <-> IP) but surprise surprise the actual KVM functionality is not working because the motherboard is not supporting an extension module.

This article discuss about the KVM <-> IP solution with a Raspberry Pi on the open source project PiKVM as a way to have the KVM functionality on my server.