What is YouLess YouLess is a cheap and small energy meter you attach to your the energy-meter you get from your electricity company. It is a small device that you can attach (using Ethernet cable) to your network. For more information see the youless.nl website. The device has a few downsides; a) it has read more
Monthly Archives: April 2012
Squishybox: Squeezebox replacement
April 22, 2012 – 5:57 pm
My sd card broke down, my cross-build vm gone, so I had to re-do things. pre: configure the network in logitech gui. Do a first step on: https://github.com/DaveDavenport/squishybox/wiki/SqueezeBox-Touch (disable watchdog) Format an empty SD card. (I used ext3, because I am shutting down, rebooting etc alot.. normally use ext2 for better lifetime of the read more
libmpdclient bitbake file.
April 22, 2012 – 10:47 am
I love it is this simple: ?View Code BASH1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 DESCRIPTION = "Music Player Daemon (mpd) library" HOMEPAGE = "http://www.musicpd.org" SECTION = "console/multimedia" LICENSE = "GPLv2" PR = "r0" SRC_URI = "${SOURCEFORGE_MIRROR}/musicpd/libmpdclient-${PV}.tar.bz2" inherit autotools binconfig
Compile a cross-compiler for microblaze xilinx
April 18, 2012 – 10:46 am
The following script builds a cross-compiler for microblaze-xilinx. Took some time to get it ‘right’. Subtle things like gcc refusing (with very strange errors) to build inside it own source directory, made it take a while. Hope somebody can use it. https://github.com/DaveDavenport/CrossCompilerGCCScript/blob/master/gcc_cross_compiler.sh ?View Code BASH1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 read more
EnergyPoint
April 9, 2012 – 3:25 pm
Energy Point This is a small tool to parse and display statistics from a youless. See: http://youless.nl/ Download data Download json file from youless. Do this atleast every 30 minutes. Overlap is no problem, EnergyPoint will check for this. wget http://youless/a?f=j -o output.json Import data Import download json files: ep import output.json This will import read more
setting up HTPC with linaro
April 8, 2012 – 1:06 pm
Mostly for my archive: (might be userfull for others) Fix a small ‘hick-up’ every 10 seconds for i2c polling of monitor: (/etc/rc.local) echo 0 > /sys/module/drm_kms_helper/parameters/poll Turn off leds: (/etc/rc.local) echo 0 > /sys/devices/platform/leds-gpio/leds/pandaboard\:\:status1/brightness echo 0 > /sys/devices/platform/leds-gpio/leds/pandaboard\:\:status2/brightness Fix screenblanking: (thx to comment in here) Create /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/30-monitor.conf and add this Section “Monitor” Identifier “Monitor0″ read more
Gnome3 weirdness
April 3, 2012 – 1:37 pm
I just had (this happend before, crappy intel drivers) had X go strange.. I rebooted my PC (normal reboot) now gnome-shell uses 100% cpu and hangs, empathy uses 100% cpu and hangs.. So just ‘randomly’ my desktop became completely un-usable. So back to the good old openbox+tint2.
Uploading old code to github
April 1, 2012 – 8:36 pm
Gnome Wireless PC Lock is a Gnome applet that locks your desktop when you walk away from your desk. A small gnome program that locks your desktop when you walk away from your desk. It is tested with a Sitecom cn-129 Wireless PC Lock. Requirements: GTK+ version 2.10.x libusb You can find it here: https://github.com/DaveDavenport/GWSL. read more