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Linkstation HG 250

Operating System

Freelink powerpc hdhglan 1.11
Linux LinkStation 2.6.20.2-kuroboxHG

Kuro HG

Operating System

Freelink powerpc hdhglan 1.11
Linux LinkStation 2.6.20.2-kuroboxHG

What I use them for:

Encrypted Filespace with EncFS
To stream video and photos to My XBMC - Using Xbox Media Center with the LinkStation
Mtdaapd/Firefly to create a Music Share. for the XBMC
Display Linkstation status on a USB Palm OS Device as an LCD Display with the PalmOrb emulator.
Download Podcasts with Bashpodder
Stream MP3s to an Airport Express using RAOP-play
Media and Shared storage for my computers over Samba
Using Thttpd as a in house webserver to serve photos using Album - Photo gallery generator which has theme support
Change to a 750GB Seagate PATA Drive originally a 250GB Drive

My Install

FreeLinkomatix - Convert the LinkStation into a Full-fledged Debian Linux Server

Install an Encrypted Filespace with EncFS

USB Palm OS Device as an LCD Display

S.M.A.R.T. hard drive monitoring

This little script generates a small bit of html showing a number of system stats


 tc=$(smartctl -a /dev/hda | grep 194 | colrm 1 87)
 tf=$(echo "scale=2;((9/5) * $tc) + 32" |bc)
 echo " Used   %  Share"
 echo "------ --- -----"
 df -h | grep /dev/hda | colrm 1 27 | colrm 6 11
 df -h| colrm  45 55 | grep /dev/s | grep -v tmpfs | colrm 1 27 | colrm 6 11
 echo "<table>"
 echo "<tr><td>Users:</td><td>"
 users
 echo "</td></tr>"
 echo "<tr><td>Uptime:</td><td> "
 uptime \
  | awk '{
   # chops off "up" and everything before it:
   sub(/.*up[ ]+/,"",$0)
   # chops off ", # users" and everything after it:
   sub(/,[ ]+[0-9]+ user.*/,"",$0)
   # cleans up extra spaces, i think:
   sub(/,/,"",$0)
   # obvious enough, prints the results
   print($0)
 }'
 echo "</td></tr>"
 echo "<tr><td>Load:</td><td>"
 uptime | sed 's/^.*average: / /'
 echo "</td></tr><tr><td>Temp:</td><td>"
 echo $tf " F"
 echo "</td></tr> </table>"
 echo "<hr>"
 date | colrm 20 30"
 echo "<hr>"

Album - Photo gallery generator which has theme support

MarginalHacks/Album: A HTML photo album generator that supports themes. It takes directories of images and creates all the thumbnails and HTML that you need.

apt-get install album

Dominatrix6

Use wget to get and install this theme
To use a theme, download the theme .tar or .zip and unpack it.

mkdir /home/httpd/Themes/
cd /home/httpd/Themes/
wget http://marginalhacks.com/Hacks/album/Themes/Dominatrix6.tar.gz
tar -xvzf Dominatrix6.tar.gz
rm Dominatrix6.tar.gz

Full resolution images are usually too big for a web album, so we'll use medium images on the image pages:
Then call album with the -theme option, with or without -theme_path:

album -medium 33% -theme Dominatrix6 /home/httpd/test/Photos
album -medium 33% -theme Dominatrix6 -theme_path /home/httpd/Themes/ /home/httpd/test/Photos

Small and simple console-based bandwidth monitor

Bandwidth Monitor NG (bwm-ng) is a small and simple console-based live bandwidth monitor. Short list of features:

Supports /proc/net/dev, netstat, getifaddr, sysctl, kstat and libstatgrab
Unlimited number of interfaces supported
Interfaces are added or removed dynamically from list
White-/blacklist of interfaces
Output of KB/s, Kb/s, packets, errors, average, max and total sum
Output in curses, plain console, CSV or HTML
Configfile

wget http://www.gropp.org/bwm-ng/bwm-ng-0.5.tar.gz
tar bwm-ng-0.5.tar.gz
cd bwm-ng-0.5
./configure
make
make install
bwm-ng -T a -o html

Install raop-play for Airport Express

Raop-play is a music file player for the Apple Airport express, the main functionalities are as follows:

Make AEX become your 2'nd sound card device.
Discover Airport Express by Apple Rendezvous
Browse music files (Supported music file format: m4a(alac or aac), wav, mp3, ogg, flac, aac, pls, raw pcm)
Send selected files to the Airport Express
Play mp3 stream data (filename started with "http://")

Required Packages:

openssl library and header
fltk1.1.4 library and header
fluid (this comes with fltk1.1.4)
libglib-2.0 header only
libsamplerate library and header
libid3tag library and header

Get any required packages to take care of dependancies:

apt-get install libssl libssl-dev libfltk1.1-dev libfltk1.1c102 fluid libglib2.0-dev libsamplerate0 libsamplerate0-dev libid3tag0 libid3tag0-dev

Then get raop_play-0.5.1.tar.gz from here, compile, make, and install it:

tar -xvzf raop_play-0.5.1.tar.gz
cd raop_play-0.5.1  
./configure
make
make install

BashPodder

BashPodder is a podcast client written in bash. It is designed to be a simple, fast, and lightweight podcast client that always works. It is designed to conform to the KISS principal ("Keep it simple, stupid"). Various GUIs also exist for BashPodder.

wget http://linc.homeunix.org:8080/scripts/bashpodder/bashpodder.shell
wget http://linc.homeunix.org:8080/scripts/bashpodder/parse_enclosure.xsl
wget http://linc.homeunix.org:8080/scripts/bashpodder/bp.conf
chmod a+x bashpodder.shell

change bp.conf to included desired feeds.

Kernel News

[{PERMALINK} {TITLE}]

{DESCRIPTION}

</feed>

Alpha 220 LED Sign

I am using my Kuro Pro to drive an Alpha 215/220 LED Display I happened to have one of these signs lying around.

Install a Serial Port Interface

First you are going to have to install a serial interface. I ended up installing mine to the serial port on the bottom, but the serial port on the front is easier and the same. I used a board from futurelec, they are dirt cheap, but take forever to get to you

I used a Quick port RJ-12 jack to interface the sign to the serial port converter

Then I shoved the whole thing in a 2 port Quick port surface mount housing

Interface Sign to Serial Port Interface

I used a standard 6 wire telephone cable meant for a two line phone (a 4 wire one will not work) Plug one end into the sign. And one end into the Quick port RJ-12 Jack Wire the jack into the serial port board as such^[1]

Pin 4 of the RJ12 to RS-232 RX.
Pin 3 of the RJ12 to RS-232 TX
Pin 6 of the RJ12 to RS-232 GND

quote -- command-line stock quote display

Using the Alpha 215C with Linux

# /usr/local/bin/setledsign
rm /dev/alpha
ln -s /dev/ttyS0 /dev/alpha
chmod a+rw /dev/alpha
stty 9600 -opost -ocrnl -onlcr cs7 parenb -parodd < /dev/alpha
chmod a+rwx /tmp/textfile
leddisplay

# /usr/local/bin/leddisplay
# Stock ticker symbols
#
stocks="  ^DJI ^IXIC ^GSPC AAPL BA T GRR IFN GLD SLV  MO KFT BRK-B TM KEP AL AA YHOO MSFT GOOG ZAAP.OB GE"

       quote $stocks | cut -d"(" -f1 |sed 's/^/\x1C9 \x7F \x1C3 /' | sed '/ -/s/:/\x1C1/g' | sed '/ +/s/:/\x1C2/g$
        $PTE/alphamon.pl t A  > /dev/alpha
   else

        $EXEC $RSSURI | grep title |\
        sed -e :a -e 's/<[^>]*>//g;/</N' |\
        sed -e 's/[ \t]*//' |\
        sed -e 's/\(.*\)/ \1/' |\
        sed -e 's/\.//' |\
        sed -e 's/\"//' |\
        sed -e 's/\"//' |\
        head -n $(($LINES + 2)) |\
        tail -n $(($LINES)) > /tmp/textfile
        $PTE/alphamon.pl t 1 > /dev/alpha

      exit

# alphamon.pl
#
#!/usr/bin/perl
#
# Script will display the contents of /tmp/textfile to the ALPHA 220C LED
# Display
#
# Usage
#
# alphamon.pl [MODE TAG] [COLORTAG]


# Get the attention of the sign
print "\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0";


# Tell the sign to print the message
$message = `cat /tmp/textfile` ;

print "\001" . "Z" . "00" . "\002" . "AA" . "\x1B" . " $ARGV[0]" . "\x1C" . "$ARGV[1]" . $message . "\004";

===========
MODETAG =
===========
a - Regular smooth scroll, right to left
b - Appear. Centers as much of message on screen, waits, and displays rest of message in similar manner
c - Appear with flashing.
d - Auto. Randomly picks an effect for each part of the message, as opposed to the message as a whole.
e - Scroll up.
f - Scroll down from top.
g - Jerky scroll from right to left.
h - Jerky scroll from left to right.
i - Wipe up from bottom, covering text.
j - Wipe down from top, covering text.
k - Wipe over from right to left, character by character, not by pixels.
l - Wipe over from left to right, character by character.
m - Scroll up. Same as 'e'?
n - This is doing something weird based on message itself. Will have to investigate.
o - Auto/Random (same as 'd'?)
p - --> CENTER <-- Text appears at sides and squishes content in.
q - <-- CENTER --> Text splits in center and pushed content out.
r - --> COVER <-- New text covers old out to in.
s - <-- UNCOVER --> New text uncovers in to out.
t - Compressed text! Using this mode the sign tricks your eyes into seeing more characters
than it is capable of physically producing. Scrolls right to left.
u - Fast Appear.
v - Medium Appear.
w - Maybe medium-slow appear.
x - Same as 'p'?
y - Same as 'q'?
z - Same as 'r'?
@ - The sign went blank.
z - Same as 'r'?
@ - The sign went blank.
=============
COLOR TAGS =
=============
1 - Red
2 - Green
3 - Amber
4 - Dim red
5 - Dim green
6 - Brown
7 - Orange
8 - Yellow
9 - Rainbow 1
A - Rainbow 2
B - Color mix
C - Autocolor

References

</references>

[1]

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 =Alpha 220 LED Sign=
-http://www.circlemud.org/~jelson/software/quote
+I am using my Kuro Pro to drive an Alpha 215/220 LED Display I happened to have one of these signs lying around.
+http://www.ams-i.com/Media/215a.gif
-http://wls.wwco.com/ledsigns/alpha/AlphaLinux.html
+==Install a Serial Port Interface==
+First you are going to have to install a serial interface.  I ended up installing mine to the serial port on the bottom, but the serial port on the front is easier and the same.
+I used a board from futurelec, they are dirt cheap, but take forever to get to you
+http://www.futurlec.com/Pictures/ET-MINI_RS232_3V.jpg
+I used a Quick port RJ-12 jack to interface the sign to the serial port converter
+http://assets.twacomm.com/assets/1915907507/product_images/5493.jpg
+Then I shoved the whole thing in a 2 port Quick port surface mount housing
+http://assets.twacomm.com/assets/1915907507/product_images/8381.jpg
+==Interface Sign to Serial Port Interface==
+I used a standard 6 wire telephone cable meant for a two line phone (a 4 wire one will not work) Plug one end into the sign.  And one end into the Quick port RJ-12 Jack
+Wire the jack into the serial port board as such<ref>[http://wls.wwco.com/ledsigns/alpha/cable.html Building a Data Cable for Alpha LED Scrolling Signs]</ref>
+* Pin 4 of the RJ12 to RS-232 RX.
+* Pin 3 of the RJ12 to RS-232 TX
+* Pin 6 of the RJ12 to RS-232 GND
+[http://www.circlemud.org/~jelson/software/quote quote -- command-line stock quote display]
+[http://wls.wwco.com/ledsigns/alpha/AlphaLinux.html Using the Alpha 215C with Linux]
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 # B - Color mix
 # C - Autocolor
+==References==
+</references>

User:Ramuk

From NAS-Central Buffalo - The Linkstation Wiki

Revision as of 02:23, 9 August 2007

Contents

Linkstation HG 250

Operating System

Kuro HG

Operating System

What I use them for:

My Install

FreeLinkomatix - Convert the LinkStation into a Full-fledged Debian Linux Server

Install an Encrypted Filespace with EncFS

USB Palm OS Device as an LCD Display

S.M.A.R.T. hard drive monitoring

Album - Photo gallery generator which has theme support

Small and simple console-based bandwidth monitor

Install raop-play for Airport Express

BashPodder

Kernel News

Alpha 220 LED Sign

Install a Serial Port Interface

Interface Sign to Serial Port Interface

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