User:Ramuk
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Linkstation HG 250
Operating System
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- 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
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- 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
<feed url="http://hvkls.dyndns.org/index.rss">
[{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.
220 Full Matrix, (Case 37.7" x 3.8" x 2.9 ") Tricolor
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Install a Serial Port Interface
First you are going to have to install a serial port 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/Mini_RS232_TTL_3V.shtml
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[2]
- 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
Setup the serial port
You will have to adjust the serial port settings. I use a script to do this. My information came from a FAQ on using the Alpha sign with Linux[3].
setledsign
# /usr/local/bin/setledsign #!/bin/sh rm /dev/alpha ln -s /dev/ttyS0 /dev/alpha chmod a+rw /dev/alpha stty 9600 -opost -ocrnl -onlcr cs7 parenb -parodd < /dev/alpha
Wake up the sign and display something on it
I use a script that I stole from the above site.
alphamon.pl
# 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";
MODE TAG and COLORTAG
The key parts of this are the MODE TAG and COLORTAG, there is full documentation available for this[4] but here are the pertinant parts.
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Stock Ticker
I do use the sign for a number of other purposes, to display RSS feeds and weather forecasts. But the most complicated script is to display a live stock ticker that gets it's data from yahoo. It then colors the prices green if they are positive/up and red if they are negative/down for the day.
First you should install perl and make
apt-get install perl make
Then install the quote package [5]
wget http://www.circlemud.org/pub/jelson/quote/quote-0.05.tar.gz tar -xvzf quote-0.05.tar.gz cd quote-0.05 ./configure ./make ./make install
you may as well install curl and lynx so that you can use them to get content from the web later
apt-get install curl lynx
Lastly here is a shell script to display the ticker
leddisplay
# /usr/local/bin/leddisplay
#!/bin/sh
# 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
