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NFO creator with poster art generator

Created this for usage with Kodi, for our own personal movies, which can’t be scraped by movie scrapers obviously.
(dvd-rip,digital video, mobile movies, OBS, Vuze and Nikon movies for example)

UPDATE V2 added functions

This is a followup on:

Works on Windows also!

Needed libraries: (install with pip)
pathlib, Pillow, pymediainfo,PySimpleGUI,python-vlc

NFO created

Title – editable (generated from filename)
Duration – mediainfo data in seconds
Plot – Single line type it yourself
Actors – Predefined
Tags – Predefined checkboxes
Country – Pulldown ( I use this as location, Scotland, Asia, Garden)
Year – default 2023, copy button from mobile phone metadata year
Genre – Pulldown

Works

  • File select and loaded
  • Play movie, scrub thretro movie
  • Create snapshot
  • Play/Mute/Pause
  • Playtimer
  • Auto update NFO text field with selectable options
  • Poster art – rotate
  • Poster art – brightness
  • Reload Thumb after snapshotting
  • Year extracted from filename
  • add tag field
  • Next file (button AND functionality)
  • checkboxes from text list
  • Read NFO from file into fields
  • Poster art – aspect ratio

Needs work

Wish list

  • Poster art – contrast?
  • Low – more mediainfo?
  • Low – Media rotate??

The GUI in action (V1)

Kodi example

CODE ( WIP ) V2
I place this python script in every library directory. So i can change the checkboxes and the NFO being generated.
I fill the directory with symlinks for every movie I want to have included in this directory, but this is not needed. (thats the way I like to do things)
(This is the directory I scrape into Kodi)

from pathlib import Path
from sys import platform as PLATFORM
import os
import re
import PySimpleGUI as sg
import vlc
from pymediainfo import MediaInfo
from PIL import Image, ImageEnhance, ImageTk, ImageOps, ImageFilter
from xml.etree import ElementTree as ET


'''
WARNING, NFO overwrites previous!!



'''

alltags = ["music", "pipes", "computer","bbq","fun","art","travel","hobby","family","retro","compilation","retro","vuze"]

#------- WINDOWS FIX --------#
if PLATFORM.startswith('linux'):
    print("yeah linux baby!")
else:
    os.add_dll_directory(r'E:\VLC')

duration=0
tmptag=""

def nextFile(currentfile,dir):
        newfile=""
        dirpath = os.path.dirname(dir)
        fileList = []
        for f in os.listdir(dirpath):
            #fpath = os.path.join(dirpath, f)
            fpath = f
            if os.path.isfile(fpath) and f.endswith(('.mp4', '.mov', '.mpg','.avi','.mkv','.3gp')):
                fileList.append(fpath)
        fileList.sort()
        for i in range(len(fileList)):
#            print("fileList[i] " + fileList[i])
            try:
                if (fileList[i]) == currentfile:
                    newfile=fileList[i+1]
                    break
            except:
                newfile=fileList
        return newfile

def loadthumb(thumbfile):
    # IF exists
    path_to_file = thumbfile
    path = Path(path_to_file)

    if path.is_file():
        im = Image.open(thumbfile)
        im=ImageOps.contain(im, (640,640)) 
        thumbimage = ImageTk.PhotoImage(image=im)
        window['thumb'].update(data=thumbimage)
    else:
        window['thumb'].update("")

def loadnfo(file):

    #LOAD NFO
    nfo=file + ".nfo"
    path = Path(nfo)

    if path.is_file():
            f = open(nfo, "r")
            innfo=f.read()
            f.close()
#            print ("file : " + nfo)
            innfo="".join([s for s in innfo.strip().splitlines(True) if s.strip()])

# Clear some fields
            window['year'].update("")
            window['plot'].update("")

            # Update fields test
            if ET.fromstring(innfo).find('country') is not None:
                nfolocation = ET.fromstring(innfo).find('country')
                window['location'].update(value=nfolocation.text)
            if ET.fromstring(innfo).find('year') is not None:
                nfoyear = ET.fromstring(innfo).find('year')
                window['year'].update(nfoyear.text)
            if ET.fromstring(innfo).find('plot') is not None:
                nfoplot = ET.fromstring(innfo).find('plot')
                window['plot'].update(nfoplot.text)
            if ET.fromstring(innfo).find('title') is not None:
                nfotitle = ET.fromstring(innfo).find('title')
                window['-NM-'].update(nfotitle.text)
            if ET.fromstring(innfo).find('genre') is not None:
                nfogenre = ET.fromstring(innfo).find('genre')
                window['genre'].update(value=nfogenre.text)

            window['coline'].update(False)
            window['henri'].update(False)
            window['monique'].update(False)
            for actor in ET.fromstring(innfo).findall('actor'):
                name = actor.find('role').text
                if name == "Coline":
                    window['coline'].update(True)
                if name == "Henri":
                    window['henri'].update(True)
                if name == "Monique":
                    window['monique'].update(True)
            for alltag in alltags:
                window[alltag].update(False)

            if ET.fromstring(innfo).find('tag') is not None:
                for tag in ET.fromstring(innfo).findall('tag'):
                    if tag.text in window.AllKeysDict:
                        window[tag.text].update(True)

            window['coline'].update(False)
            window['henri'].update(False)
            window['monique'].update(False)
            for actor in ET.fromstring(innfo).findall('actor'):
                name = actor.find('role').text
                if name == "Coline":
                    window['coline'].update(True)
                if name == "Henri":
                    window['henri'].update(True)
                if name == "Monique":
                    window['monique'].update(True)
            for alltag in alltags:
                window[alltag].update(False)

            if ET.fromstring(innfo).find('tag') is not None:
                for tag in ET.fromstring(innfo).find('tag'):
                    window[tag.text].update(True)

    else:
        innfo=""
    window['LOADNFO'].update(innfo)





#------- Button definition --------#
def btn(name):  
    return sg.Button(name, size=(6, 2), pad=(1, 1))

#def tag(name):  
#    return sg.Checkbox(name, enable_events=True)

#------- GUI definition & setup --------#
sg.theme('SystemDefaultForReal')


l1=sg.Text("New title")
l2=sg.Multiline(" ", expand_x=True, key='-OUT-', expand_y=True,justification='left', size=(20,15))
l3=sg.Multiline(" ", expand_x=True, key='LOADNFO', expand_y=True,justification='left', size=(20,15))
l4=sg.Text("Plot")
t1=sg.Input("", key='-NM-')
t2=sg.Input("", key='plot',enable_events=True)
cb=[]

for alltag in alltags:
    cb.append(sg.Checkbox(alltag, key=alltag, enable_events=True))




cb.append(sg.Input("", key='addtag',size=(5, 1), enable_events=True))
cb.append(sg.Combo(["Lab","Datacenter","home","Outside","Outside","Lloydwebber","Steenweg","Enschede","Netherlands","Germany","Italy","Scotland","Canada","Egypt","Belgium","Sweden","Ireland","Asia","NewZealand","Hilversum"],default_value='Lab',key='location'))
cb.append(sg.Combo(["Storage","Funny","Vacation","Music","Relation"],default_value='Storage',key='genre'))
nameyear=[]
nameyear.append(sg.Checkbox("Coline", key='coline', enable_events=True,default=True))
nameyear.append(sg.Checkbox("Henri", key='henri', enable_events=True,default=True))
nameyear.append(sg.Checkbox("Monique", key='monique', enable_events=True,default=False))
nameyear.append(sg.Input("2023",key='year',size=(5, 1), enable_events=True))
nameyear.append(sg.Button("copyyear\nmetadata", key='copymeta', size=(20, 1), pad=(1, 1), enable_events=True))
nameyear.append(sg.Input("",key='metayear',size=(5, 1), enable_events=True))
nameyear.append(sg.Button("copyyear\nfilename", key='copyname', size=(20, 1), pad=(1, 1), enable_events=True))
nameyear.append(sg.Input("",key='fileyear',size=(5, 1), enable_events=True))
b1=sg.Button("WRITE NFO", key='write', enable_events=True)
b2=sg.Button("Exit", key='exit', enable_events=True)

#------- Layout total --------#

layout = [[sg.Input(key='-VIDEO_LOCATION-', visible=False, enable_events=True),
          sg.FileBrowse(file_types=(("Video files", "*.mkv *.mov *.mp4 *3gp *avi *mpg"),)),btn('next')],
          [sg.Text('Load media to start', key='-MESSAGE_AREA-')],
          [sg.Image('', size=(600, 480), key='-VID_OUT-', pad=(1, 1)),sg.Image('', size=(600, 480), key='thumb', pad=(1, 1))],
          [btn('mute'), btn('play'), btn('pause'), btn('stop'), btn('snap'), btn('snaprot'), btn('lighten'), btn('darken'), sg.Combo(["4:3","16:9","9:16"],key='aspect',enable_events=True)],
          [sg.Slider(range=(0, 1000), default_value=1, expand_x=True, enable_events=True, orientation='horizontal', key='-SL-')],
          [sg.Text('org title', key='orgtitle')],
          [l1, t1, l4, t2],[cb],[nameyear],[b1, l2, l3, b2],
          [sg.Text('GENERATED                            -= mini nfo writer =-                              PREVIOUS', key='footer')]
          ]

#------- Set window --------#
window = sg.Window('Mini NFO generator', layout, element_justification='center', finalize=True, resizable=True)
#------- VID out window --------#
window['-VID_OUT-'].expand(True, True)               
#------------ Media Player Setup ---------#
inst = vlc.Instance()
list_player = inst.media_list_player_new()
media_list = inst.media_list_new([])
list_player.set_media_list(media_list)
player = list_player.get_media_player()
if PLATFORM.startswith('linux'):
    player.set_xwindow(window['-VID_OUT-'].Widget.winfo_id())
else:
    player.set_hwnd(window['-VID_OUT-'].Widget.winfo_id())

#------------ I Want default mute ---------#
player.audio_set_mute(True)

#------------ The Event Loop ------------#
while True:
    event, values = window.read(timeout=1000)       # run with a timeout so that current location can be updated
    if event == sg.WIN_CLOSED:
        break



    if event == 'mute':
        mutevalue = player.audio_get_mute()
        if mutevalue==0:
            player.audio_set_mute(True)
        if mutevalue==1:
            player.audio_set_mute(False)
    if event == 'play':
        list_player.play()
    if event == 'pause':
        list_player.pause()
    if event == 'stop':
        list_player.stop()
    if event == 'snap':
        list_player.pause()
        filename = values['-VIDEO_LOCATION-']
        shortfilename = filename.rsplit( ".", 1 )[ 0 ] 
        newname = shortfilename + "-poster.png"
        player.video_take_snapshot(0, newname, 0, 0)
        loadthumb(newname)
    if event == 'snaprot':
        list_player.pause()
        filename = values['-VIDEO_LOCATION-']
        shortfilename = filename.rsplit( ".", 1 )[ 0 ] 
        newname = shortfilename + "-poster.png"
        im1 = Image.open(newname)
        im1 = im1.rotate(90, Image.NEAREST, expand = 1)
        im1 = im1.save(newname)
        loadthumb(newname)

    if event == 'lighten':
        list_player.pause()
        filename = values['-VIDEO_LOCATION-']
        shortfilename = filename.rsplit( ".", 1 )[ 0 ] 
        newname = shortfilename + "-poster.png"
        im1 = Image.open(newname)
        im1 = ImageEnhance.Brightness(im1)
        im1 = im1.enhance(1.2)
        im1 = im1.save(newname)
        loadthumb(newname)
        
    if event == 'darken':
        list_player.pause()
        filename = values['-VIDEO_LOCATION-']
        shortfilename = filename.rsplit( ".", 1 )[ 0 ] 
        newname = shortfilename + "-poster.png"
        im1 = Image.open(newname)
        im1 = ImageEnhance.Brightness(im1)
        im1 = im1.enhance(0.8)
        im1 = im1.save(newname)
        loadthumb(newname)

    if event == 'aspect':
        filename = values['-VIDEO_LOCATION-']
        shortfilename = filename.rsplit( ".", 1 )[ 0 ] 
        newname = shortfilename + "-poster.png"
        if values['aspect'] == "4:3":
            im1 = Image.open(newname)
            im1 = im1.resize((1920 ,int(1920/4*3)), Image.ANTIALIAS)
            im1 = im1.save(newname)
            loadthumb(newname)
        if values['aspect'] == "16:9":
            im1 = Image.open(newname)
            im1 = im1.resize((1920 ,int(1920/16*9)), Image.ANTIALIAS)
            im1 = im1.save(newname)
            loadthumb(newname)
        if values['aspect'] == "9:16":
            im1 = Image.open(newname)
            im1 = im1.resize((int(1920/16*9),1080), Image.ANTIALIAS)
            im1 = im1.save(newname)
            loadthumb(newname)


    if event == 'write':
        filename = values['-VIDEO_LOCATION-']
        shortfilename = filename.rsplit( ".", 1 )[ 0 ] 
        newname = shortfilename + ".nfo"
        f = open(newname, "w")
        f.write(out)
        f.close()
        loadnfo(shortfilename)

    if event == 'copymeta':
        if datefromfile is not None:
            window['year'].update(datefromfile)

    if event == 'copyname':
        if fileyear is not None:
            window['year'].update(fileyear)


    if event == '-SL-':
        pos=int(values['-SL-'])
        player.set_position(pos/ 1000.0)

        
    if values['coline'] == False:
         colinetext = ""
    if values['coline'] == True:
        colinetext = """<actor>
  <name>Coline Lastname</name>
  <role>Coline</role>
</actor>"""
    if values['henri'] == False:
         henritext = ""
    if values['henri'] == True:
        henritext = """<actor>
  <name>Henri Aanstoot</name>
  <role>Henri</role>
</actor>"""
    if values['monique'] == False:
            moniquetext = ""
    if values['monique'] == True:
        moniquetext = """<actor>
  <name>Monique Lastname</name>
  <role>Monique</role>
</actor>"""

        
    if event == '-VIDEO_LOCATION-':
        if values['-VIDEO_LOCATION-'] and not 'Video URL' in values['-VIDEO_LOCATION-']:
            media_list.remove_index(0)
            media_list.add_media(values['-VIDEO_LOCATION-'])
            list_player.set_media_list(media_list)
            shortname = values['-VIDEO_LOCATION-']
            shortname = shortname.rsplit( "/", 1 )[ 1 ] 
            nextfile=nextFile(shortname,"./")
            shortname = shortname.rsplit( ".", 1 )[ 0 ] 
            window['-NM-'].update(shortname) # only add a legit submit
            list_player.stop()
            list_player.next()
            thumbname=shortname + "-poster.png"
            loadthumb(thumbname)

            #Print org title
            window['orgtitle'].update(values['-VIDEO_LOCATION-'])


            loadnfo(shortname)


            #DURATION
            mi = MediaInfo.parse(values['-VIDEO_LOCATION-'])
            duration=int(mi.tracks[0].duration/1000)
            
            #DATE FROM media
            metadate=mi.tracks[0].encoded_date
            if metadate is not None:
                datefromfile=next(iter(re.findall(r"[1][9][8-9][0-9]|[2][0][0-9]{2}", metadate)), None)
                window['metayear'].update(datefromfile)

            # YEAR FROM FILENAME 
            fileyear=next(iter(re.findall(r"[1][9][8-9][0-9]|[2][0][0-9]{2}", shortname)), None)
            # year from filename
            if fileyear is not None:
                window['fileyear'].update(fileyear)


    if event == 'next':
        
        values['-VIDEO_LOCATION-'] = nextfile
        window['-VIDEO_LOCATION-'].update(nextfile)

        if values['-VIDEO_LOCATION-'] and not 'Video URL' in values['-VIDEO_LOCATION-']:
            media_list.remove_index(0)
            media_list.add_media(values['-VIDEO_LOCATION-'])
            list_player.set_media_list(media_list)
            shortname = values['-VIDEO_LOCATION-']
 #           shortname = shortname.rsplit( "/", 1 )[ 1 ] 
            nextfile=nextFile(shortname,"./")
            #print(nextfile)
            shortname = shortname.rsplit( ".", 1 )[ 0 ] 
            window['-NM-'].update(shortname) # only add a legit submit
            list_player.stop()
            list_player.next()
            thumbname=shortname + "-poster.png"
            loadthumb(thumbname)

            #Print org title
            window['orgtitle'].update(values['-VIDEO_LOCATION-'])
            

            loadnfo(shortname)

            #DURATION
            mi = MediaInfo.parse(values['-VIDEO_LOCATION-'])
            duration=int(mi.tracks[0].duration/1000)
            
            #DATE FROM media
            metadate=mi.tracks[0].encoded_date
            if metadate is not None:
                datefromfile=next(iter(re.findall(r"[1][9][8-9][0-9]|[2][0][0-9]{2}", metadate)), None)
                window['metayear'].update(datefromfile)

            # YEAR FROM FILENAME 
            fileyear=next(iter(re.findall(r"[1][9][8-9][0-9]|[2][0][0-9]{2}", shortname)), None)
            # year from filename
            if fileyear is not None:
                window['fileyear'].update(fileyear)
#        media_list.add_media(nextfile)
##        shortname = nextfile.rsplit( ".", 1 )[ 0 ] 
##        window['-NM-'].update(shortname) # only add a legit submit
#        print(nextfile)
#        window['-VIDEO_LOCATION-'].update(nextfile)
#        list_player.next()
# hier moeten wat update dingen bij!




    # Add tag
    if event == 'addtag':
        tmptag="<tag>" + values['addtag'] + "</tag>"

#------------ exit ---------#

    if event=='exit':
         exit()
#------------ TAGS ---------#
    
    subs=[x.Text for x in cb if x.get()==True]
    for idx, x in enumerate(subs):
        subs[idx]="<tag>" + subs[idx] + "</tag>"


    if values['year'] == False:
        year=str(2023)
    else:
        year=values['year']
    if values['location'] == False:
        location="Lab"
    else:
        location=values['location']
    if values['plot'] == False:
        plot=""
    else:
        plot=values['plot']
    if values['genre'] == False:
        genre="Storage"
    else:
        genre=values['genre']
#------------ NFO TEXT FIELD ---------#

    out="""<movie>
<title>{}</title>
<plot>{}</plot>
<genre>{}</genre>
<duration>{}</duration>
<year>{}</year>
<country>{}</country>
{}
{}
{}
{}
{}
</movie>
""".format(values['-NM-'],plot,genre,duration,year,location,colinetext,henritext,moniquetext,tmptag, "\n".join(subs))
    out="".join([s for s in out.strip().splitlines(True) if s.strip()])
    window['-OUT-'].update(out)

#------------ Messages and timer ---------#

    # update elapsed time if there is a video loaded and the player is playing
    if player.is_playing():
        window['-MESSAGE_AREA-'].update("{:02d}:{:02d} / {:02d}:{:02d}".format(*divmod(player.get_time()//1000, 60),
                                                                     *divmod(player.get_length()//1000, 60)))
    else:
        window['-MESSAGE_AREA-'].update('Load media to start' if media_list.count() == 0 else 'Ready to play media' )

window.close()

My dosbox assembly directory

Below you can find the files in a zip for writing assemby machine code in dosbox.

I’ve got mine extracted in ~/projects/dos

To automount this i’ve edited

~/.dosbox/dosbox-*.conf
;-------- bottom part
[autoexec]
# Lines in this section will be run at startup.
# You can put your MOUNT lines here.

mount c: /home/myusername/projects/dos
c:

The files

  • A.BAT – Runs editor, masm,linker (start with a<space>progname
  • DEBUG.COM – msdos debugger
  • EXE2BIN.EXE – exe to com (if segments allow)
  • GFX.ASM – example template (see below)
  • LINK.EXE – masm linker
  • MASM.EXE – masm compiler
  • Q* – editor stuff
  • Q.EXE – editor
  • SR.EXE – sourcer
  • SYMDEB.EXE
  • TASM.EXE – turbo assembler
  • TD.EXE – turbo debugger
  • TLINK.EXE – turbo linker

Template

; everything in 64k CS, DS, and SS are the same
.model small
; start pointer
.stack 100h
.code
start:
	; set mode 13 (320x200 * 265 colors palette)
    mov ah,0	
    mov al,13h
    int 10h

    ; set pixel in the middle color 2 (cyan)
    mov ah,0ch
    mov al,2
    mov cx,160
    mov dx,100
    int 10h

	; wait key input
    mov ah,0
    int 16h

	; set mode back to text
    mov ah,0
    mov al,3
    int 10h

	; exit to dos
    mov ax,4c00h
    int 21h
end start

Usage

start dosbox
a gfx (edit gfx.asm example)
esc, q, e
gfx (run program)

Calibrating temperature/humidity with mqtt

Example uses a shelly sensor, which has a offset mode in its new firmware. So below is not needed any more.
But the example can be used for any calibration/adjustments.

I’ve put two examples in the NodeRed function

First the solution

var temperature=msg.payload.tC;
var humidity=msg.payload.tF;
// calc new offset example
// simple offset + 2.3 off real measurement
msg.payload.tC=temperature + 2.3;
// more complex example
// take two measurements (with a big difference)
msg.payload.tF=1.11 * (humidity - 1);
return msg;

First adjustment is plus or minus a value.
Second is more precise when the temperature needs more adjusting

Dots on the red line are measured values
Blue is how it should be

So measured was 2.8 but should be 2
And measured 14.5 but needs to be 15

slope = (14.5-2.8)/(15-2) = 0.9

To get the multiplication factor = 1/0.9 = 1.1111

=(2.8-heightadjust)*1,1111 should give us 2

2/1.1111 = 2.8 – heightadjust

1.8 = 2.8 – heightadjust = 1

So the formula is realhumid = 1,1111 * ( measuredhumid – adjust )

Mikrotik day (dhcp and thedude)

Moving dhcp from isc-dhcp-server to Mikrotik.
And playing with theDude and speedtesting.

I got an old linux gateway which only runs a dhcp server.
Time to move this to a Mikrotik router.

The config on this isc-dhcp-server is huge!
So i was planning to migrate some one by one by hand.
Maybe writing a script to do this automatically later on.

I’ve got loads of static configured hosts, so I change these

  • Change static entry in dhcp to a deny booting entry
  • Add a static lease to the Mikrotik
  • Restart dhcp service

Example host

#                # kodiserver
#                host kodi.example.com {
#                fixed-address 10.11.12.13;
#                hardware ethernet ae:ae:ae:ae:ae:ea;
#                }

host movekodito4011 {
   hardware ethernet ae:ae:ae:ae:ae:ea;
   deny booting;
}

Mikrotik config (static single entry config)
See other post about dhcp config

/ip dhcp-server lease
add address=10.11.12.13 mac-address=EA:EA:EA:EA:EA:EA:EA

The Dude

The dude is a cool tool which connects to your MT and generates all kinds of cool info.
I was trying to get the frequency spectral scan working.
But it generates a nice network map also.

Easy to install under linux

  • Install wine
  • Download thedude from the MT website
  • start “wine dude_install.exe”
  • cd ” /home/$USER/.wine/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/Dude”
  • wine dude.exe

While moving a lot from my gateway to Mikrotik, I still have to come up with a plan to migrate my netboot.xyz PXE server to TFTP/ipxe using a migrated dhcpd server.
I probably end up using a separate dhcp instance which handles only the PXE requests.

Background switcher Ubuntu

I was playing around with Phantomjs a headless browser.
Using this as a scraper for a ajax enabled site.

After scraping a wallpaper site, I wanted to take the big pictures and display these as background.

First sort and resize to a better size.

Below does the following:

  • Image width larger than 1800 AND
  • Image height larger than 900
  • Resize to 1920×1080 ( enlarge or reduce size )
  • Not screen filling (portrait mode) ? Than add black bars on the side.
  • Place the image in wallpaper directory

Convert script, if you resize huge images beforehand, you safe cpu resources later.
You also can place other colors or even another background instead of black.

mkdir -p wallpaper
ls * | while read ; do
info=$(identify "$REPLY" | awk '{ print $3 }' 2>/dev/null)
height=$( echo $info | cut -f2 -dx)
width=$( echo $info | cut -f1 -dx)
if [ $width -gt 1800 ] && [ $height -gt 900 ] ; then
	convert -resize 1920x1080  -gravity center  -background black -extent 1920x1080 "$REPLY" "wallpaper/$REPLY"
fi
done

Set a random wallpaper as background using cron.

#!/bin/bash
DISPLAY=":0.0"
XAUTHORITY="/home/henri/.Xauthority"
XDG_RUNTIME_DIR="/run/user/1000"

cd /home/henri/Pictures/
getranpic=$(ls  wallpaper/ |sort -R |tail -1)
#gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.background picture-options 'wallpaper'
#Set different modes ( enum 'none' 'wallpaper' 'centered' 'scaled' 'stretched' 'zoom' 'spanned' )
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.background picture-uri-dark  "$(realpath wallpaper/$getranpic)"
logger "$(realpath $getranpic)" 

Cron example

* * * * * DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS=unix:path=/run/user/1000/bus /home/henri/bin/setrandom

Top IMDB followup using python (openpyxl)

Using some python and a scraped list I can now mark which movies we’ve seen, or have to see.
(Own the movie or have it seen streamed in the cinema)

I just have to place a X after the title in the first column.
Run the python script, and presto

First column, the list we started with.
Second column, mark the movie.
3rd until the end .. years 2000-2023

Blue – seen
Light Blue – seen but was not in original list (so a new movie)
Green – have this movie, but still have to watch it
Light Green – Have this movie but it’s not in the original list
Orange – New in that year (could be an oldie reemerging in the top 250)

Now the python script, maybe it useful for you.

# 20230813 18:49 IMDB overview
# pip install openpyxl

import openpyxl
from openpyxl.styles import PatternFill
from openpyxl.styles.colors import Color
 
wb = openpyxl.load_workbook("clearsheet.xlsx")
sheet = wb['Sheet1']

colors = ['00660066', '00FFFFCC',
          '007b8cf2', '005ace97', '00ffac58','00dddddd','009bd8ff','007aeeb7']
fillers = []

for color in colors:
    temp = PatternFill(patternType='solid',
                       fgColor=color)
    fillers.append(temp)

# Mark found previous years
for colt in range(4, 27):
    for colr in range(3, colt):
        for rowr in range(2, 252):
            for rowrr in range(2, 252):
                if sheet.cell(row=rowrr, column=colr).value == sheet.cell(row=rowr, column=colt).value :
                    sheet.cell(row=rowr, column=colt).fill = fillers[4]

# Mark Our Old list matched with all years
for titlerow in range(2, 252):
    for colr in range(3, 26):
        for rowr in range(2, 252):
            if sheet.cell(row=titlerow, column=1).value == sheet.cell(row=rowr, column=colr).value :
                sheet.cell(row=titlerow, column=1).fill = fillers[5]

# Mark Have / Seen
for title in range(2, 252):
    for j in range(3, 27):
        for i in range(2, 252):
            if sheet.cell(row=i, column=j).value == sheet.cell(row=title, column=1).value :
                if sheet.cell(row=title, column=2).value == "x":
                     sheet.cell(row=i, column=j).fill = fillers[2]
                else:
                     sheet.cell(row=i, column=j).fill = fillers[3]

# Mark non old list but seen
for title in range(252, 400):
    for j in range(3, 27):
        for i in range(2, 252):
            if sheet.cell(row=i, column=j).value == sheet.cell(row=title, column=1).value :
                if sheet.cell(row=title, column=2).value == "x":
                     sheet.cell(row=i, column=j).fill = fillers[6]
                else:
                     sheet.cell(row=i, column=j).fill = fillers[7]
# Info cells
sheet['D255'] = "Downloaded seen org list"
sheet['D256'] = "Downloaded not seen org list"
sheet['D257'] = "Title matches found in 2000-2023"
sheet['D258'] = "Titles found in 2000-2023 not in org list have"
sheet['D259'] = "Titles found in 2000-2023 not in org list have seen"
sheet['D260'] = "Titles found in 2000-2023 previous years"
sheet.cell(row=255, column=4).fill = fillers[2]
sheet.cell(row=256, column=4).fill = fillers[3]
sheet.cell(row=257, column=4).fill = fillers[5]
sheet.cell(row=258, column=4).fill = fillers[7]
sheet.cell(row=259, column=4).fill = fillers[6]
sheet.cell(row=260, column=4).fill = fillers[4]
wb.save("imdbexport.xlsx")

MartyPC

Perviously i’ve posted about PCem

But I wanted to have a emulator which could load extension biosses also.
This for my own tinkering.

I was told to look at MartyPC and PCE/ibmpc

I don´t like it being written in Rust, but it does the job.

Running the Basic Extension Rom
Running one of my own roms. I knew it didn’t work, now i can use the buildin debug to see why!
Another of my test roms, which is working!

ROM config part i’ve got in martypc.toml

rom_override = [
    { path = "./roms/BIOS_5160_09MAY86_U19_62X0819_68X4370_27256_F000.BIN", address = 0xF0000, offset=0, org="Normal" },
    { path = "./roms/BIOS_5160_09MAY86_U18_59X7268_62X0890_27256_F800.BIN", address = 0xF8000, offset=0, org="Normal" },
    { path = "./roms/myromextension.bin", address = 0xF6000, offset=0, org="Normal" }
]

GLABios for Laser XT/3

In previous post :

I mentioned a 2 ROM setup because the 8086 is 16bits instead of 8.
So I was wondering that maybe a recompile was needed, or the data being split over two roms (odd/even)

The guy from GLABios was so kind to build me two interleaved roms.

So while working on a padded bench, I tested the ROMs.

Working outside .. on the padded bench

Back to the roms, it didn’t work!

But I missed a detail in the technical manual (the bold text)

In Turbo XT /2 and Turbo XT /3, there are two 28-pin sockets for ROM,
both of them are occupied by 2764 which stored the BIOS. The contents
of the two 2764 are identical.
One of them contribute the ODD Byte to the system and the other EVEN Byte. Together they support 16 Bit BIOS
access.

I don’t know why this is how it works, but when I flashed two the same 28C64’s it worked!
(I also tought that is was strange that both original roms had the same markings.

It workes!

Only remarks/observations:

  • There was a longer wait time before the CF Card was detected/accessed
  • GLABios mentions 8088 in the splashscreen, but the machine is a 8086

UPDATE

GLABios was not updated for displaying 8086 yet.
Error 1701 was the (old spinning) harddisk not being connected.

Nice .. harddisk infomation like size, rom address and CHS

8086 sideway scroller ‘n stuff

Today I was working on my own brew ISA card (wirewrapping).
Did some mini modeling stuff.
Sorted some pipetunes.
And played around with my 8086.

Got it on a desk now, and replaced the harddisk with the CF card.
Also got an old SoundBlaster working, so i wanted to see what of my old code could still run.
Apparanty most code was compiled for 386/486 🙁
So i recompiled some stuff.
Below a horizontal scroller example.

Meanwhile i got my new fans in for my NUC (Kodi player, it was making a hell of a noise due to bad ball bearings.