Category Archives: Computer

Upgraded my mattermost server 4 days ago.

2023-07-01 fash Leave a comment

If you are a old friend/colleage/whatever .. give me a ping to get you connected.

I’ve been using IRC a long time, we even had our own interconnected servers with our group ICE.
Lipperkerk, GMC and Pixnet.
Overkill I know, but we could so we did.

Last few years i’ve been using Mattermost. After testing many alternatives.

Whatsapp – not own hosted, hate it, and was not allowed for work.
Zulip – tested this for a long time
IRC at work, implemented this at 2 places i’ve worked. Once using a web gui.
A ajax chat server
??
??

After installing this in my Lab, a few colleages from work used it. After that the whole department and more.
Running for more than a year, it was time got get this running on the servers at work.
I’ve reinstalled a server for my friends.

Last update gave me a nice insights desktop. Quiet days in june.

I love the webhooks and plugins.

In the past i’ve implemented a whatsapp to mattermost bridge, i will post about this .. sometime.

Below a implementation using a arduino and a 3D printed flag.

Mattermost Mqtt Flag Integration

Computer

ISA prototyping board – IO chips

2023-07-01 fash Leave a comment

Followup on

UPDATE 20230702 20230703 20230714

ISA Prototyping print

While working on a Lidar project, my mouser components came in.

Now I have to find a IO address decoder schematic I made a while ago.

This ISA board is going to have a Wirewrapped setup. There is a 8255 IO chip, and uses 3x 74138 for IO address decoding, OR i will use a setup i’ve made for my 6502 using an atf22v10.

What to controll using this 8255? First some Leds, later a LCD display.

Below the 3 mentioned IC’s

The 8255 is a chip like the 6522 used in my DIY 6502 elsewhere on my site.

Overview of comparable IO chips. ( Not interchangeable due to bus timing!)
Most of them have 8 data lines and 2x 8 IO bi-directional lines.

CHIP	NOTES
6522	6502 based machines
8255	8088/8068 based machines
Z84C2008	Z80 (called PIO)
8155	8085 / 8088
8520	68000 amiga
6821	6800

UPDATE 20230702

Started wirewrapping, luckily i’ve got a big choice of colors. That makes finding the right signals a breeze.

UPDATE 20230703

Found my schematic

Above uses 3 74138 decoders, address can be “programmed” using jumpers (not used on my prototype board) . Address 0400h in above example.

A15 – 0
A14,13,12 – decodes to OUT-0
A11 – 0
A10,9,8 – decodes to OUT-4
A7 – 0
A6,5,4 – decodes to OUT-0
A3 and A2 are not used (see note)
A1 and A0 are register select on the 8255

Address 0000,0100,0000,xxrr
xx can be a 0 or 1
the 8255 can be controlled using
0400h 0401h 0402h
but also
0404h 0405h 0406h
0408h 0409h ….
040Ch ……

UPDATE 20230714 – Alternative address decode test with ATF22V10

UPDATE 20230803

UPDATE

Miswired second 74138.
Tested with below code

mov dx,503h # control register
mov al,80h # output port a,b,c as standard IO/output
out dx,al # 16 bit IO mapped IO out
mov dx,500h # data register
mov al,0  # 0/ff all on/all off
out dx,al

Computer

Micro cassettes with computer programs.

2023-06-30 fash Leave a comment

I’ve got some micro cassettes with programs for P2000 and the Microtrainer (SDK-85).

Lets try to get this into executable code again.

(I sold my Philips P2000 last year before I found these tapes)

I bought a Cassette player (voice memo recorder) from Marktplaats (dutch ebay), and a mini jack cable (2.5mm to 3.5mm)

There are two things i’m going to try.

Converting the recorded audio into executable code using python or Puredata.
And making a print to connect the tape player to the SDK-85.

Connecting the player to a soundcard gave me:
Signed 16bit 44.1 kHz

(there are simular projects like this for C64 tapes and alike)
So there will be FFT tricks involved.

While browsing though this book:

I found this schematic: (page A1-39)

So that’s next to build

Computer, Music

Python Spotify Genre Cube v2

2023-06-30 fash Leave a comment

Spotify version

Next to do: Lasercut a wooden cube with better lettering.

Run the python part on a server

Spotify control using python

and

RFID music playlist genre selector.

First export some API credentials

export SPOTIPY_CLIENT_ID=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
export SPOTIPY_CLIENT_SECRET=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
export SPOTIPY_REDIRECT_URI="http://localhost:8080/callback"

Code below:

from flask import Flask, request, redirect
from requests_oauthlib import OAuth2Session
from requests.auth import HTTPBasicAuth
import requests
import json
import spotipy
from spotipy.oauth2 import SpotifyOAuth
from pprint import pprint
from time import sleep
import spotipy.util as util
import sys
import paho.mqtt.client as mqttClient
import time
import os
import subprocess

Connected = False


broker_address = "MQTTSERVER"
port = 1883


def on_connect(client, userdata, flags, rc):
    if rc == 0:
        print("Connected to broker")
        global Connected
        Connected =True
    else:
        print("Connection failed")

def on_message(client, userdata, message):
    print (message.payload)
    myurl = 'spotify:playlist:' + str(message.payload.decode())

    results = sp.start_playback(context_uri=myurl, offset={"position": 1})

client = mqttClient.Client("PythonSpotifyGenreCube")
client.on_connect = on_connect
client.on_message = on_message

client.connect(broker_address, port=port,keepalive=60 )
client.loop_start()
time.sleep(4) # Wait for connection setup to complete
client.subscribe('spotify/playlist')
#client.loop_stop()    #Stop loop

#while Connected != True:
#    client.loop()
#    time.sleep(0.1)
#    print("test")
#    client.subscribe('spotify/playlist')



app = Flask(__name__)

AUTH_URL = 'https://accounts.spotify.com/authorize'
TOKEN_URL = 'https://accounts.spotify.com/api/token'
REDIRECT_URI = 'http://localhost:8080/callback'
CLIENT_ID = "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"
CLIENT_SECRET = "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"
SCOPE = [
    "user-read-email",
    "playlist-read-collaborative"
]

@app.route("/login")
def login():
    spotify = OAuth2Session(CLIENT_ID, scope=SCOPE, redirect_uri=REDIRECT_URI)
    authorization_url, state = spotify.authorization_url(AUTH_URL)
    return redirect(authorization_url)

@app.route("/callback", methods=['GET'])
def callback():
    code = request.args.get('code')
    res = requests.post(TOKEN_URL,
        auth=HTTPBasicAuth(CLIENT_ID, CLIENT_SECRET),
        data={
            'grant_type': 'authorization_code',
            'code': code,
            'redirect_uri': REDIRECT_URI
        })
    return json.dumps(res.json())


username = "fashice"
scope = "user-read-playback-state,user-modify-playback-state,playlist-read-private"
util.prompt_for_user_token(username,scope,client_id='xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx',client_secret='xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx',redirect_uri='http://localhost:8080/callback')

sp = spotipy.Spotify(client_credentials_manager=SpotifyOAuth(scope=scope))

# Shows playing devices
res = sp.devices()
pprint(res)


# Change track
#sp.start_playback(uris=['spotify:track:6gdLoMygxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'])
#results = sp.start_playback(context_uri=myurl, offset={"position": 1})


## Change volume
#sp.volume(100)
#sleep(2)
#sp.volume(50)
#sleep(2)
#sp.volume(100)
#


playlists = sp.user_playlists(username)

#for playlist in playlists['items']:
#    print(playlist['name'])


playlists = sp.current_user_playlists()
#print (playlists)
for playlist in playlists['items']:
    print(playlist['id'] + ' ' +  playlist['name'])



#if __name__ == '__main__':
#   app.run(port=8080,debug=True)


while Connected != True:
    time.sleep(0.1)
    client.subscribe('spotify/playlist')

try:
    while True:
        time.sleep(1)


except KeyboardInterrupt:
    print ("exiting")
    client.disconnect()
    client.loop_stop()

Computer

ISA Prototyping print

2023-06-30 fash Leave a comment

Got a delivery today …
Woot .. let the 8088/v20 hardware hacking commence!

https://www.pcbway.com/project/shareproject/PC_XT_ISA_8_bit_retro_Protoboard.html

First to do: LEDs, everybody loves blinking leds.
Next: Probably a address decoder with a VIA/CIA and a LCD Display.

Now I have to wait for my mouser order to be delivered.

Computer

Machine code Monitor in ROM on real BBC Acorn Hardware

2023-06-27 fash Leave a comment

My BBC Acorn model B is working again. The original monitor is still dead.

Time to play with some machine code and ROMs.

My machine has a NFS rom installed. (NetFS)

Econet was Acorn Computers’s low-cost local area network system, intended for use by schools and small businesses. It was widely used in those areas, and was supported by a large number of different computer and server systems produced both by Acorn and by other companies.

I found a ROM online called Gremlin. It is a 16K rom file. But at the moment I only got some 28C64 (8k) or 28C256 (32k) eeproms.

32k it is. But de beeb having address line A14 floating high, I need to flash the upper 16k of the 32k ROM.

So I made the 16K rom into a 32K using cat

cp Gremlin\ v1.21\ \(1983\)\(Computer\ Concepts\).rom 16k.rom
cat Gremlin\ v1.21\ \(1983\)\(Computer\ Concepts\).rom >> 16k.rom

minipro -w 16k.rom -p AT28C256

I got the rom from this page:
https://acorn.huininga.nl/pub/unsorted/roms/Gremlin%20v1.21%20(1983)(Computer%20Concepts).rom

Below booting straight into the monitor program.

Manual:

CC_Gremlin_ROM Download

Computer

6502 and Wozmon

2023-06-23 fash Leave a comment

Ben posted a youtube about Wozmon running on his 6502.

In 1976, Steve Wozniac wrote what’s commonly known simply as Wozmon.

Wozmon is a machine-code monitor program written by Wozniak for the Apple 1. In Only 256 bytes ! Being pure 6502 code easily adaptable.
A monitor program allows you to view/edit and run machine code using simple commands.

I’ve got a different setup as Ben’s computer.
But changing the necessary, and it will run on my 6502.

I’m not using rs232 voltage levels (-7 till -25 and +7 till +25 volts).
I’m using a usb serial uart standard 5v leveling stick …

For address decoder see other post

Compiling the Wosmon gave me an error, DEC is not a valid opcode for a bare 6502 .. but we have a 65c02.
Solution: Add -c02 extra opcodes

error 1 in line 187 of "wozmon.s": illegal operand types
>                DEC                    ; Decrement A.

# fix .. add -c02
vasm6502_oldstyle -c02 -Fbin -dotdir wozmon.s

Below Apple I Manual with the sourcecode for Wozmon

apple.applei.1976.102646518 Download

Computer

Debugging a cool robot

2023-06-23 fash Leave a comment

A friend bought a mini robot for his son.
But it didn’t work as it should.

No way i let this opportunity pass to play with it!

This is the one:
https://elektronicavoorjou.nl/product/maqueen-plus-v2/
Maqueen Plus V2 – Geavanceerde STEM Educatie Robot voor micro:bit

https://wiki.dfrobot.com/SKU_MBT0021-EN_Maqueen_Plus_STEAM_Programming_Educational_Robot#target_0

So you can program this in a blockly like manner.

Problems we encountered:

Uploading didn’t work
Solution: Using chrome it had access to the usb port to upload, firefox didn’t work
The program didn’t compile, faulty or zero size hex file.
Solution: Wrong Maqueen library was in the examples
(After changing, needed version update also, see below)
Not everything is in Dutch (I like English, but this is for the boy), maqueen V2 needed a lot of translation.
(So we joined https://crowdin.com/project/makecode/nl to help translating the libraries)

Apparently my AI camera can be connected to this robot!

HuskyLens Test

Computer

GLaBios and own code

2023-06-22 fash Leave a comment

Altered glabios to run code at F600:0000 instead of basic rom.
(Needs to have code to check if rom exists)

My test code and generating rom is below:
It should set leds on the keyboard to on .. we will see tomorrow.

NAME mycode
.model small
ORG 0h

.code
start:	mov al, 11000000b
        out 80h, al
loop1:  nop
	jmp loop1
ORG 1fffh ; end of rom
	db 0
END

makefile is:

@ECHO OFF
MASM /DARCH_TYPE="T" /DCPU_TYPE="V" MYROM;
LINK MYROM;
EXE2COM MYROM.EXE
REN MYROM.COM MYROM.ROM

That looks okay!

MOV AL = B0
C0 = 11000000
OUT = E6
80h = 80h
90 = NOP
EB = relative jump
FD = -3 to NOP instruction

Computer, IOT / Domoticz

Shelly Dimmer and NodeRed an update ..

2023-06-21 fash Leave a comment

Shelly Devices

Our bedroom has a shelly dimmer, this one is connected with a wall switch and is being controlled by Domoticz, Home Assistant and NodeRed.

I had to fix some stuff, so this was a perfect time to jot down some notes.

I’ve wired it up like this:
(I’ve got a Line wire in my ceiling socket, so i placed the module there instead of the wall socket)

Configure the Shelly as mentioned in the manual. After that do the following:
Advance > Developer settings :
(Enable CoIot if you want a easy auto detect for Home Assistant)
Enable MQTT (This will DISABLE cloud ! )
Server: the ip number of your Mqtt Broker

Next I did was:

Now the wall switch will change/toggle what the current state is.
(If the light is off, and you switch it on using Mqtt, you probably needed to hit the switch two times to turn it off again. Not so with this setting.)

My Nodered Flow ( Not using the Shelly palette nodes in this example)

The Mqtt IN node sets the state of the switch when you use the wall switch!
Cozy turns light on at a specific level.
The slider send an off command when 0% selected, else an on command and the sliders value.

# Cozy function
msg.payload = {};
msg.payload.turn="on";
msg.payload.brightness=30;
return msg;

# Slider function
var varlevel = msg.payload;
msg.payload = {};
if(varlevel == 0){ 
msg.payload.turn="off";
} else
{
    msg.payload.turn="on";
}
msg.payload.brightness=varlevel;
return msg;

DashBoard

The Flow

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        "type": "ui_switch",
        "z": "746c372deb597681",
        "name": "",
        "label": "Bedroom lights2",
        "tooltip": "",
        "group": "c387df0cfc06c60e",
        "order": 3,
        "width": 0,
        "height": 0,
        "passthru": false,
        "decouple": "true",
        "topic": "",
        "topicType": "str",
        "style": "",
        "onvalue": "on",
        "onvalueType": "str",
        "onicon": "",
        "oncolor": "",
        "offvalue": "off",
        "offvalueType": "str",
        "officon": "",
        "offcolor": "",
        "animate": true,
        "className": "",
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        "y": 940,
        "wires": [
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        "type": "ui_slider",
        "z": "746c372deb597681",
        "name": "",
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        "group": "c387df0cfc06c60e",
        "order": 4,
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        "outs": "end",
        "topic": "",
        "topicType": "str",
        "min": 0,
        "max": "100",
        "step": 1,
        "className": "",
        "x": 230,
        "y": 900,
        "wires": [
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                "d9c299ec7c0c82b0"
            ]
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    },
    {
        "id": "d9c299ec7c0c82b0",
        "type": "function",
        "z": "746c372deb597681",
        "name": "Get level",
        "func": "var varlevel = msg.payload;\nmsg.payload = {};\n\nif(varlevel == 0){ \nmsg.payload.turn=\"off\";\n} else\n{\n    msg.payload.turn=\"on\";\n}\n\nmsg.payload.brightness=varlevel;\nreturn msg;",
        "outputs": 1,
        "noerr": 0,
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        "finalize": "",
        "libs": [],
        "x": 460,
        "y": 900,
        "wires": [
            [
                "315ffbe441467c10"
            ]
        ]
    },
    {
        "id": "df432d3faea35f38",
        "type": "mqtt out",
        "z": "746c372deb597681",
        "name": "",
        "topic": "shellies/shellydimmer-CFE204/light/0/command",
        "qos": "",
        "retain": "",
        "respTopic": "",
        "contentType": "",
        "userProps": "",
        "correl": "",
        "expiry": "",
        "broker": "8c74c5f6.9a7a48",
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        "wires": []
    },
    {
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        "type": "mqtt out",
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        "broker": "8c74c5f6.9a7a48",
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        "wires": []
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        "type": "function",
        "z": "746c372deb597681",
        "name": "Cozy",
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        "outputs": 1,
        "noerr": 0,
        "initialize": "",
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        "libs": [],
        "x": 450,
        "y": 860,
        "wires": [
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            ]
        ]
    },
    {
        "id": "57fb1210d37e5325",
        "type": "ui_button",
        "z": "746c372deb597681",
        "name": "",
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        "order": 5,
        "width": 0,
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        "tooltip": "",
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        "className": "",
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]

Prutser ..

Category Archives: Computer

Upgraded my mattermost server 4 days ago.

ISA prototyping board – IO chips

Micro cassettes with computer programs.

Python Spotify Genre Cube v2

ISA Prototyping print

Machine code Monitor in ROM on real BBC Acorn Hardware

6502 and Wozmon

Debugging a cool robot

GLaBios and own code

Shelly Dimmer and NodeRed an update ..

"If something is worth doing, it's worth overdoing."