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DDC i2c monitor control

I wanted to control the input of my monitors, these are my findings.

DDC – Display Data Channel
I2C – (Inter-Integrated Circuit, eye-squared-C), alternatively known as IIC, is a synchronous, multi-master/multi-slave (controller/target) bus

Getting monitor information with the ddccontrol -p command

##### PART OF THE OUTPUT #####
Detected monitors :
 - Device: dev:/dev/i2c-9
   DDC/CI supported: Yes
   Monitor Name: VESA standard monitor
   Input type: Digital
  (Automatically selected)
 - Device: dev:/dev/i2c-7
   DDC/CI supported: Yes
   Monitor Name: VESA standard monitor
   Input type: Digital
 - Device: dev:/dev/i2c-6
   DDC/CI supported: Yes
   Monitor Name: VESA standard monitor
   Input type: Digital
Reading EDID and initializing DDC/CI at bus dev:/dev/i2c-9...
I/O warning : failed to load external entity "/usr/share/ddccontrol-db/monitor/AOC2490.xml"

Switching inputs

ddcutil -b 7 setvcp 0x60 0x11 # 7 is Second monitor (starts with 6), 0x60 is the input register (see below) and 0x11 is HDMI
ddcutil -b 6 setvcp 0x60 0x0f # First monitor DP (Displaylink)

alternative command

ddccontrol -r 0x60 -w 15 dev:/dev/i2c-7

List the control registers

ddccontrol -d dev:/dev/i2c-6
ddccontrol version 0.6.0
Copyright 2004-2005 Oleg I. Vdovikin (oleg@cs.msu.su)
Copyright 2004-2006 Nicolas Boichat (nicolas@boichat.ch)
This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
You may redistribute copies of this program under the terms of the GNU General Public License.

Reading EDID and initializing DDC/CI at bus dev:/dev/i2c-6...
I/O warning : failed to load external entity "/usr/share/ddccontrol-db/monitor/AOC2490.xml"
Document not parsed successfully.

EDID readings:
	Plug and Play ID: AOC2490 [VESA standard monitor]
	Input type: Analog
=============================== WARNING ===============================
There is no support for your monitor in the database, but ddccontrol is
using a basic generic profile. Many controls will not be supported, and
some controls may not work as expected.
Please update ddccontrol-db, or, if you are already using the latest
version, please send the output of the following command to
ddccontrol-users@lists.sourceforge.net:

LANG= LC_ALL= ddccontrol -p -c -d

Thank you.
=============================== WARNING ===============================

Controls (valid/current/max) [Description - Value name]:
Control 0x02: +/1/2 C [New Control Value - No changes]
Control 0x04: +/0/1 C [Restore Factory Defaults]
Control 0x05: +/0/1 C [Restore Brightness and Contrast]
Control 0x08: +/0/1 C [Restore Factory Default Color]
Control 0x10: +/90/100 C [Brightness]
Control 0x12: +/50/100 C [Contrast]
Control 0x14: +/5/13 C [???]
Control 0x16: +/50/100 C [Red maximum level]
Control 0x18: +/50/100 C [Green maximum level]
Control 0x1a: +/50/100 C [Blue maximum level]
Control 0x60: +/772/4 C [Input Source Select (Main)]
Control 0x62: +/17/100 C [Audio Speaker Volume Adjust]
Control 0x6c: +/50/100 C [Red minimum level]
Control 0x6e: +/50/100 C [Green minimum level]
Control 0x70: +/50/100 C [Blue minimum level]
Control 0xac: +/6750/65535   [???]
Control 0xae: +/6000/65535   [???]
Control 0xb2: +/1/8   [???]
Control 0xb6: +/3/8 C [???]
Control 0xc8: +/5/65302 C [???]
Control 0xc9: +/8/65535 C [???]
Control 0xcc: +/4/255   [???]
Control 0xd6: +/1/4 C [DPMS Control - On]
Control 0xdf: +/513/65535 C [???]
Control 0xfe: +/4/255   [???]

Setting volume (reg 0x62) of monitor 2

ddcutil -b 7 setvcp 0x62 0x01

AOC monitor PROBLEM

You can’t switch from an input which is not active!
So my workstation is connected via DP, and i can switch to HDMI.
Now i HAVE TO use the hdmi to switch back to DP.
A solution could be to ssh into the machine connected with HDMI (passwordless login) and switch back to DP.
I made a mqtt button sending a topic that was read by the two machines using the mqtt python program elsewhere on this site.
(Rotary Mqtt Volume control)

gddccontrol

Colleage at work brings a Freecom Internet Radio

Big mistake 😉 It a Linux ARM system with Busybox

Less do some searching on the web.
Ah .. enable telnet

Open in a browser:

http://192.168.1.x/admin/cgi-bin/debug.cgi

I was controlling my colleage’s music from the next room

Enable telnet:

Connect and install Pong:

telnet 192.168.1.x (username root)
# wget http://agilo.acjs.net/files/mppong/setup.sh
# chmod 755 setup.sh
# ./setup.sh
# ./start.sh
# ./start.sh musicpal # For the normal player

Links i have to look into:
https://www.qemu.org/docs/master/system/arm/musicpal.html

Garbage display

I wanted to know when trash is being collected. So i made a dual led thingy.

Version without lid .. just to test

When we lived in Utrecht, the website which mentions when, what is collected was easy .. like a API

We live in Hilversum now, so i had to write a scraper.

UPDATE : Script not working anymore. Site has been changed, and I’m not willing to run a headless browser (phantomjs) to scrape the info

See below my new solution

Script to set leds

#!/bin/bash
set -x

if [[ $# -eq 0 ]] ; then
curl  http://10.1.0.46/control?cmd=NeoPixel,1,0,0,0
curl  http://10.1.0.46/control?cmd=NeoPixel,2,0,0,0
exit 0
fi


set -x
if [ $1 = "GFT" ] ;then led1="150,0,0" ;fi
if [ $1 = "Rest" ] ;then led1="150,150,150" ;fi
if [ $1 = "Paper" ] ;then led1="0,0,150" ;fi
if [ $1 = "Plastic" ] ;then led1="75,191,0" ;fi
if [ $1 = "Textiel" ] ;then led1="191,191,191" ;fi
if [ $1 = "Kerstbomen" ] ;then led1="191,0,0" ;fi

if [ "w$2" = "wgft" ] ;then led2="255,0,0" ;fi
if [ "w$2" = "wRest" ] ;then led2="150,150,150" ;fi
if [ "w$2" = "wpapier" ] ;then led2="0,0,255" ;fi
if [ "w$2" = "wplastic" ] ;then led2="100,255,0" ;fi
if [ "w$2" = "wTextiel" ] ;then led2="191,191,191" ;fi
if [ "w$2" = "wKerstbomen" ] ;then led2="191,0,0" ;fi

if [[ $# -eq 1 ]] ; then
led2=$led1
fi
curl  http://10.1.0.46/control?cmd=NeoPixel,1,$led1
curl  http://10.1.0.46/control?cmd=NeoPixel,2,$led2

Scraper ( calls setleds and mqtt )

#!/bin/bash
cd /home/pi/
./afvalleds
curl -s https://inzamelkalender.gad.nl/adres/1222HP:39 > /tmp/afvalcurl
today=$(date +%F)
tomorrow=$(date --date="next day" +%F)
for f in petfles-blik-drankpak-pmd.svg appel-gft.svg kliko-grijs-rest.svg doos-karton-papier.svg shirt-textiel.svg kerstboom.svg ; do
p1=$(cat /tmp/afvalcurl | grep -i  -A2 "$f" | grep class | cut -f2 -d\> | cut -f1 -d\< | cut -f2- -d" ")
p2=$(echo $p1 | sed s/mei/may/g | sed s/okt/oct/g )
p3=$(date --date="$p2" +%F)
dater=$p3
now=$(date -d $(date --date="1 days ago" +%F) +%s)
p3epoch=$(date --date="$p3" +%s)
diff=$(expr $p3epoch - $now)
if [ $diff -lt 0 ] ; then
                dater=$(date -d "$p3 1 year" +%F)
fi
whatdate=$(echo $f | sed s/petfles-blik-drankpak-pmd.svg/Plastic/g |sed s/appel-gft.svg/GFT/g | sed s/kliko-grijs-rest.svg/Rest/g | sed s/doos-karton-papier.svg/Paper/g | sed s/shirt-textiel.svg/Textiel/g | sed s/kerstboom.svg/Kerstbomen/g)
mosquitto_pub -h 127.0.0.1 -p 1883 -t "afvalwijzer/$whatdate" -m "$dater"
if [ "w$today" == "w$dater" ]; then
alltoday="$alltoday $whatdate"
fi
if [ "w$tomorrow" == "w$dater" ]; then
alltomorrow="$alltomorrow $whatdate"
fi
done
mosquitto_pub -h 127.0.0.1 -p 1883 -t "afvalwijzer/Today" -m "$alltoday"
mosquitto_pub -h 127.0.0.1 -p 1883 -t "afvalwijzer/Tomorrow" -m "$alltomorrow"
./afvalleds $alltomorrow

Utrecht scraper

#!/bin/bash
set -x
curl -s "http://json.mijnafvalwijzer.nl/?method=postcodecheck&postcode=3543eh&huisnummer=72&" > /tmp/afv
cat /tmp/afv | python -mjson.tool > /tmp/afv.json
today=$(cat /tmp/afv.json | grep -A1 $(date +%Y-%m-%d) | grep nameType | cut -f4 -d\" | paste -sd "/" -)
today=$(echo $today | sed s/\ /,/g)

tomorrow=$(cat /tmp/afv.json | grep -A1 $(date -d "+1 days" +%Y-%m-%d) | grep nameType | cut -f4 -d\" | paste -sd "/" -)
tomorrow=$(echo  $tomorrow" | sed s/\ /,/g)

cat /tmp/afv.json | grep -B1 nameType | grep -B1 gft | cut -f4 -d\" | grep 202 > /tmp/gft.afv
cat /tmp/afv.json | grep -B1 nameType | grep -B1 papier | cut -f4 -d\" | grep 202 > /tmp/papier.afv
cat /tmp/afv.json | grep -B1 nameType | grep -B1 plastic | cut -f4 -d\" | grep 202 > /tmp/plastic.afv
cat /tmp/afv.json | grep -B1 nameType | grep -B1 kerst | cut -f4 -d\" | grep 202 > /tmp/kerst.afv
(
(
for f in $(seq 1 31) ; do
 dater=$(date -d "+$f days" +%Y-%m-%d)
 grep $dater /tmp/gft.afv > /dev/null &&  echo "$dater GFT" | head -1
done ) | head -1

(
for f in $(seq 1 31) ; do
 dater=$(date -d "+$f days" +%Y-%m-%d)
 grep $dater /tmp/papier.afv > /dev/null && echo "$dater Papier"  | head -1
done ) | head -1

(
for f in $(seq 1 31) ; do
 dater=$(date -d "+$f days" +%Y-%m-%d)
 grep $dater /tmp/plastic.afv > /dev/null && echo "$dater Plastic"  | head -1
done ) | head -1

(
for f in $(seq 1 31) ; do
 dater=$(date -d "+$f days" +%Y-%m-%d)
 grep $dater /tmp/kerst.afv > /dev/null && echo "$dater Kerstboom"  | head -1
done ) | head -1

) | sort -n -k1 | sed s/\ /,/g > /tmp/afv.sorted
gft=$(cat /tmp/afv.sorted | grep GFT | cut -f1 -d,)
papier=$(cat /tmp/afv.sorted | grep Papier | cut -f1 -d,)
plastic=$(cat /tmp/afv.sorted | grep Plastic | cut -f1 -d,)

mosquitto_pub -h 127.0.0.1 -p 1883 -t "afvalwijzer/Today" -m "$today " 
mosquitto_pub -h 127.0.0.1 -p 1883 -t "afvalwijzer/Tomorrow" -m "$tomorrow " 
mosquitto_pub -h 127.0.0.1 -p 1883 -t "afvalwijzer/Papier" -m "$papier" 
mosquitto_pub -h 127.0.0.1 -p 1883 -t "afvalwijzer/GFT" -m "$gft" 
mosquitto_pub -h 127.0.0.1 -p 1883 -t "afvalwijzer/Plastic" -m "$plastic" 

Update new solution

My home assistant has a hacs addon installed which does the heavy lifting for me.
Why not use this info?

I wrote about NR and HA here

So getting the info for NR to parse:

I only need to use the lightblue node bottom right!

It is the current state node, inject a timestamp every day to get new values.
Parse this and send using Mqtt to my Led display thingy

Old phones, organisers and gadgets

Old ones

  • Ericsson PF768?
  • One in between ?? with fancy wood cover
  • Nokia 7110 (Symbian)
  • Nokia 7650 (Symbian 6)
  • Nokia 6630 (Symbian  8)
This is not the one .. but simular .. still looking if i can find this one

Playing around with these i made a :

  • MMS server
  • Wap server
  • SMS gateway
  • Netsaint ( pre check_mk/icinga/nagios ) web thingy

Androids

  • G1 – First android phone (2009)
  • HTC Desire Z (2011)
  • Nexus (2013)
  • OnePlusOne (2015)
  • Realme (2019)
G1, HTC, Nexus and OnePlusOne
Current phone

Work phones

  • ??
  • Iphone for work ( stopped using this crap )
    • (funny story, got more for cheap to embed in my flightsim dash)
  • Sony Xperia XZ for work

Organizers

  • Multiple sharps
  • Xircom Rex
  • Sharp Zaurus SL-5500 (Linux)
  • Nokia 770

Organizing programs

  • Hyper (dos) – hyplus.exe (1989)
  • Twiki/Foswiki
  • Google docs
  • Joplin (Current)

Action LSC Alarm/Siren

Update 20221208 – removed internals

I’ve modded several LSC devices, most of them i could flash with esp-easy or tasmota.
Why mod it? Because it uses the cloud .. i’d like to keep control myself.
Just connect/solder a USB to TTL Converter UART Module like below.
(See other posts)

But this alarm was different, i ended up removing the chip and replace it with a ESP12.

Warning .. loud! .. Yes almost xmas
A WR3 is almost like a ESP-12

So now i had to figure out which GPIO pins and how to control them.

#1/bin/bash
# Flashed ESP Easy on this one
# When i did this, 2019, you needed version 2.1-beta1 
# GPIO 4 controls LED
sleep 10
curl http://10.1.1.251/control?cmd=GPIO,4,1
sleep 1
curl http://10.1.1.251/control?cmd=GPIO,4,0
sleep 1
curl http://10.1.1.251/control?cmd=GPIO,4,1
sleep 2
curl http://10.1.1.251/control?cmd=GPIO,4,0
sleep 5
# Sending rtttl ringtone
curl "http://10.1.1.251/control?cmd=rtttl,5:d=4,o=5,b=112:8a,8a,a,8a,8a,a,8a,8c6,8f.,16g,2a,8a-,8a-,8a-.,16a-,8a-,8a,8a.,16a,8a,8g,8g,8a,g,c6"



alarm sound
 curl "http://10.1.1.251/control?cmd=rtttl,5:d=4,o=5,b=160:2g,2c6,2g,2c6,2g,2c6,2g,2c6"
pager
 curl "http://10.1.1.251/control?cmd=rtttl,5:d=4,o=5,b=160:8d6,16p,2d6,16p,8d6,16p,2d6,16p,8d6,16p,2d6"

Update 20221208 – removed internals

Removed my old hack and replaced it with a Wemos D1.
Added a LED
Next to do .. add a amplifier using a LM356/358

Cocktail pictures and notebook

I like mixology

Some pictures of the drinks i’ve made, in the last years.

Most are in my notebook, i can perfect the drink now individually for a person.

I really have to put the names of the drinks on this page.
(And the tasting notes!)

Lidar POC for Vincent

Using Python, Raspberry, a lidar module, a servo, display .. and a 3Dprinted holder.

Proof of concept was to see if it was easy to implement a lidar radar for boat navigation.

#!/usr/bin/env python
import math
import random
import pygame
from pygame.locals import *
import time
import serial
import pigpio

GPIO = 18
ser = serial.Serial("/dev/ttyUSB0", 115200)

pi = pigpio.pi()
distance = 0
pygame.init()
screen = pygame.display.set_mode((480, 320))
while True:
        screen.fill((0,0,0))
        pygame.draw.circle(screen, (0,128,0), (240,320), 100,1)
        pygame.draw.circle(screen, (0,128,0), (240,320), 200,1)
        pygame.draw.circle(screen, (0,128,0), (240,320), 300,1)
        for deze in range(10,170,5):
            count = ser.in_waiting
            if count > 8:
                    recv = ser.read(9)
                    ser.reset_input_buffer()
                    if recv[0] == 'Y' and recv[1] == 'Y': # 0x59 is 'Y'
                        low = int(recv[2].encode('hex'), 16)
                        high = int(recv[3].encode('hex'), 16)
                        global distance
                        distance = low + high * 256
            res = distance
            #print res
            x =  res * math.cos(math.radians(deze))
            y =  res * math.sin(math.radians(deze))
            xreal = x + 240
            yreal = 320 - y
            pygame.draw.line(screen, (0, 255, 0), (240, 320), (xreal, yreal))

            pygame.time.wait(15)
            pygame.display.flip()
            #print(res)
            pi.set_servo_pulsewidth(GPIO, deze * 11 + 500)
            time.sleep(0.2)
        screen.fill((0,0,0))
        pygame.draw.circle(screen, (0,128,0), (240,320), 100,1)
        pygame.draw.circle(screen, (0,128,0), (240,320), 200,1)
        pygame.draw.circle(screen, (0,128,0), (240,320), 300,1)
        for deze in range(170,10,-5):
            count = ser.in_waiting
            if count > 8:
                    #print count
                    recv = ser.read(9)
                    ser.reset_input_buffer()
                    if recv[0] == 'Y' and recv[1] == 'Y': # 0x59 is 'Y'
                        low = int(recv[2].encode('hex'), 16)
                        high = int(recv[3].encode('hex'), 16)
                        global distance
                        distance = low + high * 256
            res = distance
            x =  res * math.cos(math.radians(deze))
            y =  res * math.sin(math.radians(deze))
            xreal = x + 240
            yreal = 320 - y
            pygame.draw.line(screen, (0, 255, 0), (240, 320), (xreal, yreal))
            pygame.time.wait(15)
            pygame.display.flip()
            pi.set_servo_pulsewidth(GPIO, deze * 11 + 500)
            time.sleep(0.2)
#pi.set_servo_pulsewidth(GPIO, 0)

Music Page Turner

UPDATE: 20230320 new version

My first version of the Bluetooth page turner.

This was made using an Arduino and some buttons.
I’m using Fbreader and Ebookdroid on the tablet.

Code:

Note: Volume buttons work for both apps, if you want to use other keys, you need to put a keymap.xml file in your fbreader books directory on your android device to remap those!

#include <BleKeyboard.h>

#define RIGHT_TURN 4
#define LEFT_TURN 5

BleKeyboard bleKeyboard("fashpageturner", "Bluetooth Device Manufacturer", 100);

void setup() {
  bleKeyboard.begin();
  
  pinMode(LEFT_TURN, INPUT_PULLUP);
  pinMode(RIGHT_TURN, INPUT_PULLUP);
}

void loop() {
  if (bleKeyboard.isConnected() && !digitalRead(RIGHT_TURN)) {
    bleKeyboard.press(KEY_MEDIA_VOLUME_UP);
    delay (100);
    bleKeyboard.releaseAll();
  }
  if (bleKeyboard.isConnected() && !digitalRead(LEFT_TURN)) {
    bleKeyboard.press(KEY_MEDIA_VOLUME_DOWN);
    delay (100);
    bleKeyboard.releaseAll();
  }

}

NEW Version

Arpscanner

Changed stuff in my arpscanner

I want to know whats on my network, and be informed when a alien device connects.
This also helps me gathering all devices and macaddresses for a cmdb.

I’ve got below in my crontab

5 * * * * root /usr/local/bin/arpscanner

And the script:

#!/bin/bash
# Using a scanner on a specific vlan/interface
arp-scan -l -g  -I p1p1.10 | grep ^10 | grep -vi packets > /var/log/arpscanner
cat /var/log/arpscanner | awk '{ print $2 }'| while read ; do
grep $REPLY /var/local/arpscanner.lst >/dev/null || echo $REPLY | mail -s arpscanner henri@henriaanstoot.nl
done

New and checked devices i put in the file mentioned above:
/var/local/arpscanner.lst

                00:21:5d:gg:gg:7a       Description
                ac:67:b2:gg:gg:a0       Liligo Twatch
                b8:27:eb:gg:dd:fd       Nieuwe octoprint
                d8:f1:5b:gg:gg:4a       WLAN Dungeon
                48:3f:da:gg:gg:fe       Uboot ESP
                8e:93:79:gg:gg:5d       Tablet Monique
                d8:f1:5b:gg:gg:06       ESP Radar
                dc:a6:32:gg:gg:fb       RPI4
                00:1e:ec:gg:gg:ab       laptop
                68:05:ca:gg:gg:68       storage bak

        etcetera