I wanted to learn Bella Ciao on my Concertina. I find the sound of the Concerina fitting the tune. So i used vi and conversion tools to create a pdf for my concertina tunebook.
(While being popular nowadays because it was used in La Casa de Papel (Money Heist). It has a interesting history) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bella_ciao
X:
T: Bella Ciao
M: 4/4
L: 1/8
R: reel
K:C
Zz EAB | cA-A z EAB | cA-A z EAB | c2 BA c2 BA |
e2 e2 eede | ff-f2 z fed | | fe-e z edc | B2 e2 c2 B2 |
A4 z z de | ff-f2 z fed | fe-e2 z edc | B2 e2 c2 B2 |
w: "repeat\ from\ beginning"
A4 z EAB | cA-A z EAB | cA-A z EAB | c2 BA c2 BA |
e2 e2 e2 de | ff-f2 z fed | fe-e z edc | B2 e2 c2 B2 |
A4 z EAB | cA-A z EAB | cA-A z EAB | c2 BA c2 BA |
e2 e2 eede | ff-f2 z fed | fe-e2 z edc | B2 e2 c2 B2 |
A4 z ede | ff-f2 z fed | fe-e2 z edc | B2 e2 ^f2 ^g2 | a4 Zz |
I’ll probably automate this, for example include this in the tunebook generator. Something like : “If abc file in subdir create pdf to include”
# Reads every file in abcsources and writes filename.pdf in current directory
ls abcsources/*abc | while read abc ; do abcm2ps -x -O - "$abc" | ps2pdf -sPAPERSIZE=a4 - "$(echo $abc | cut -f2 -d/ | sed 's/abc/pdf/g')" ;done
These are my lists, but i’m open for discussions/questions Work in progress
Actors
Tom Hanks
John Lithgow
Dennis Lee Hopper
Jack Nicholson
Clint Eastwood
Dustin Hoffman
Rutger Hauer (RIP) .. see “De kijk van Koolhoven” why
Art
H.R. Giger
M.C. Escher
César Manrique
Comics ( Details from André Franquin, Dark Humor Koen Hottentot, Don Lawrence, Don Martin ) to name a few, they are spot on
One of my comic collections – Don Martin
Classical Music
Paganini
Ludovico Einaudi
Composers
Ennio Morricone
Hans Zimmer
John Williams ( with a remark ) Some of the Starwars Suite was taken from already existing music ( See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DN3vl-JnUF8 ! ) Gustav Holst – The Planets Suite – Mars part for example
Folk/pipers (composers)
Gordon Duncan (RIP)
Fred Morrison
RS MacDonald
Paddy Keenan
A (bad) comic i drew about Gordon Duncan in 2012
Opera
Bands (non folk)
Rammstein – I know, seems like a obvious populair choice. But hear me out.
I like classical till metal. But it has to be musically interesting.
Most (non-german) people don’t listen to the lyrics, i did not either. I found the music okay. Then i started to listen to the lyrics.
The lyrics are surprisingly deep. Layers in the text, word jokes like: Du… (you) Du hast… (you have, but sounds like hasst .. You hate) Du hast mich… ( You have me, or sounds like you hate me) Du hast mich… Du hast mich gefragt… (You have asked me)
Although people think they are fascists or far-right. Coming from the punk scene, they are kind of the opposite.
Everything they do has a meaning, but sometimes you can “paste” different stories about the song.
Listen to Ohne Dich, and then see the Music Video.
Have a good listen to Germany, and Man gegen man. There are others better in explaining .. see:
And a AI generated Music Video .. perfectly matching the Lyrics
Bonus: Check out this YT channel, all kinds of musicians .. transcripted (is this a word?) by this dude.
I previously had these smartplugs flashed with EspEasy (I hate cloud enabled devices) I will post something about flashing these and others. Maybe … because you can find a lot of information on the internet. But i’ve used several tools, and made tools for this process. ( Raspberry Zero mobile tool and 3D printed PCB holder for example)
Well ..
I was using these devices in our previous home using curl commands and on a main wifi network. So i have to change the SSID and migrate from Espeasy to ESPhome so i can use these devices with Home Assistant.
Step 1 : Start in Access Point mode and migrate to my current Wifi Iot network.
Using my phone i made the necessary changes.
Goto HomeAssistant and ESPhome (you need to install this first via HACS) Press the green + Add device and give it a name
Next select the device type (Sonoff S20 in this case)
Press install and select manual download
Above will compile a binary for the Sonoff device.
Go back to your Sonoff interface and go to the tools tab. We can reflash the device without connecting this with wires to our computer.
Press Firmware load and select your downloaded binary
Back in HA it should say “online”
Pressing edit gives us a config page. Nothing works .. yet We need to add some yaml entries. ( use https://esphome.io/devices/sonoff_s20.html )
binary_sensor:
- platform: gpio
pin:
number: GPIO0
mode:
input: true
pullup: true
inverted: true
name: "Sonoff S20 Button"
- platform: status
name: "Sonoff S20 Status"
- platform: gpio
pin: GPIO2
name: "Sonoff S20 Sensor"
switch:
- platform: gpio
name: "Sonoff S20 Relay"
pin: GPIO12
output:
# Register the green LED as a dimmable output ....
- platform: esp8266_pwm
id: s20_green_led
pin:
number: GPIO13
inverted: true
light:
# ... and then make a light out of it.
- platform: monochromatic
name: "Sonoff S20 Green LED"
output: s20_green_led
BeforeAfter
Now press install
Now we can use wirelessly to upload the config
After this the device can be discovered by HA
Click add, and use the encryption key found in the yaml config to add
And found this! The fluxengine https://github.com/davidgiven/fluxengine
An open source project using a small controller board. “Flashing” some software on the board and soldering a pinheader was easy. When connecting a flat cable and a floppy drive, you end up with a device which can read many formats. Including dos 1.44/720 and amiga.
Nice package it came in
Using the power from a sata/ide harddisk adaptor
Reading and writing a MSDOS disk, no problem. Imaging an amiga disk .. easy!
You need to compile some software, but it was well documented
For a while i’ve been using the wireless shelly button for all kinds of notifications. Most of the time i like to use it as a kind of alarm/need-help-now button.
The f*ckin’ awesome button i’m talking about (pictured above) is a small (45x45mm 16mm height) button, which can connect to your wifi and send MQTT messages. It even has a strap thingy to attach it to your keychain,
Four types of messages:
short press
2x short presses
3x short presses
and long press
When using pushover, you can push alarm and messages to your android (even overriding mute/silent if you configure it that way!)
Configuring the button: https://www.shelly.cloud/documents/user_guide/shelly_button_1.pdf
I have several ip cameras which monitor movement in and around our home.
I’m using Zoneminder and other home automation systems but i want to scan through a bunch of files uploaded by the security cameras to my secondary fileserver.
So what is interesting?
Major movement compared to a base image
Movement compared to a previous uploaded image
Setting a threshold when to output information (note the 65% mark)
Looking at the output we see: At 76% of the captured images (image 1438) the threshold was above 3000 and the minus gives us the information of the difference between this image and the previous, the X marks the difference between current image and the baseline. | percent | image number | filename | difference | graphbar
Bash script:
#!/bin/bash
threshold=3000
baseline=$( ls SDAlarm*jpg | head -1)
previous=$( ls SDAlarm*jpg | head -1)
total=$( ls *.jpg |wc -l)
echo "Number of files : $total"
nr=1
ls *jpg | while read; do
graph="....................................................................................................."
diff=$(compare -verbose -metric MAE $baseline $REPLY /dev/null 2>&1 | grep all | awk '{ print $2 }' | cut -f1 -d. )
prevdiff=$(compare -verbose -metric MAE $previous $REPLY /dev/null 2>&1 | grep all | awk '{ print $2 }' | cut -f1 -d. )
line=$( echo "100 / $total * $nr" | bc -l | cut -f1 -d.)
line=$(( $line + 1))
#echo -n "$line | $nr | $REPLY | "
#echo $diff
draw1=$(( $diff / 100 + 1))
draw2=$(( $prevdiff / 100 + 1))
graph=$(echo $graph | sed "s/./X/$draw1")
graph=$(echo $graph | sed "s/./-/$draw2")
if [ $diff -gt $threshold ] ; then
printf "| %4s %% | %3s | %30s | %5s | %102s \n" $line $nr $REPLY $diff $graph
fi
nr=$(( $nr +1 ))
previous=$REPLY
done
Want to see only difference with previous image?
change:
if [ $diff -gt $threshold ] ; then into if [ $prevdiff -gt $threshold ] ; then
We take a lot of pictures, with our Nikon camera and our mobile phones.
(Apparently in 2019 5544 pictures)
Some stats
757 20190803 - on a single day (Holiday)
Average pictures per month
locate "/2019/" | egrep -i "photoalbum|gsm" | egrep -i "mp4$|jpg$" | grep -Eo '2[[:digit:]]{3}[[:digit:]]{2}[[:digit:]]{2}' | cut -c-6 |sort | uniq -c | sort -n | awk '{ sum += $1; n++ } END { if (n > 0) print sum / n; }'
461
Besides android pictures being automatically uploaded to our nextcloud, I’m using some apps and scripts to get pictures and movies stored on my fileserver. (bash scripts/andftp)
For sorting those media files, i made a sorting script. (Today I added a location sorting addition using GPS information stored in the exif information.
jpg and jpeg (add your own extentions)
mp4 and mov (for mobile and nikon)
Sorts by camera model/year/date/location
tries to extract date from filename when not found in exifinfo
Sorts whatsapp media
Sorts Raw
INSTALLING
pip3 install reverse_geocoder You need python3, exiftool, exiftime and mediainfo
copy below python script in ~/bin/reverse2.py
( need more info? change last print entry admin1/admin2) [{‘lat’: ‘-39.45556’, ‘lon’: ‘173.85833’, ‘name’: ‘Opunake’, ‘admin1’: ‘Taranaki’, ‘admin2’: ‘South Taranaki District’, ‘cc’: ‘NZ’}]
#!/bin/bash
#set -x
reversepath=/home/henri/projects/reversegeo/reverse2.py
#RAW
rawcnt=`ls | grep -i nef$ | wc -l`
if [ "$rawcnt" = "0" ] ; then
echo "no raw"
else
mkdir raw 2>/dev/null
ls | grep -i nef$ | while read ; do mv $REPLY raw ; done
fi
ls | egrep -i "jpg$|jpeg" | while read ; do
location=""
getmodel=$(exiftool "$REPLY" |grep "Make " | awk '{ print $3 }')
if [ "$getmodel" != "" ] ; then
getmodel=$getmodel/
fi
echo "$REPLY" | grep WA0 >/dev/null && getmodel=whatsapp/
gpsinfo=$(exiftool -c "%+.6f" "$REPLY" |grep "GPS Position" | cut -d":" -f2 | tr -d ' ' | sed s/,/\ /g)
if [ "$gpsinfo" != "" ] ; then
location=$(python3 $reversepath $gpsinfo | grep -vi load | sed s/\(NL\)//g)
fi
dater=$(exiftime "$REPLY" 2>/dev/null | egrep "Created|Digitized" | sed s/Digitized/Created/g | tail -1 | cut -c 16-19,21,22,24,25)
if [ "$dater" = "" ] ; then
# echo "Trying from filename"
dater=$(echo $REPLY | grep -Eo '2[[:digit:]]{3}-[[:digit:]]{2}-[[:digit:]]{2}')
if [ "$dater" = "" ] ; then
# echo "Trying from filename - maybe without dashes"
dater=$(echo $REPLY | grep -Eo '2[[:digit:]]{3}[[:digit:]]{2}[[:digit:]]{2}')
fi
fi
if [ "$dater" != "" ] ; then
year=$(echo $dater | cut -c-4)
mkdir -p "${getmodel}$year/${dater}/$location"
mv "$REPLY" "${getmodel}${year}/${dater}/$location"
else
mkdir -p "${getmodel}unknowndate/$location"
mv "$REPLY" "${getmodel}unknowndate/$location"
fi
done
ls | egrep -i "mov$|mp4$" | while read ; do
location=""
getmodel=$(exiftool "$REPLY" |grep "Make " | awk '{ print $3 }')
if [ "$getmodel" != "" ] ; then
getmodel=$getmodel/
fi
echo "$REPLY" | grep WA0 >/dev/null && getmodel=whatsapp/
gpsinfo=$(exiftool -c "%+.6f" "$REPLY" |grep "GPS Position" | cut -d":" -f2 | tr -d ' ' | sed s/,/\ /g)
if [ "$gpsinfo" != "" ] ; then
location=$(python3 $reversepath $gpsinfo | grep -vi load | sed s/\(NL\)//g)
fi
dater=$(mediainfo "$REPLY" | grep Encode | tail -1 | cut -f2- -d: | cut -f3 -d" " | sed s/-//g)
if [ "$dater" = "" ] ; then
# echo "Trying from filename"
dater=$(echo $REPLY | grep -Eo '2[[:digit:]]{3}-[[:digit:]]{2}-[[:digit:]]{2}')
if [ "$dater" = "" ] ; then
# echo "Trying from filename - maybe without dashes"
dater=$(echo $REPLY | grep -Eo '2[[:digit:]]{3}[[:digit:]]{2}[[:digit:]]{2}')
fi
fi
if [ "$dater" != "" ] ; then
year=$(echo $dater | cut -c-4)
mkdir -p "${getmodel}$year/${dater}/$location"
mv "$REPLY" "${getmodel}${year}/${dater}/$location"
else
mkdir -p "${getmodel}unknowndate/$location"
mv "$REPLY" "${getmodel}unknowndate/$location"
fi
done
Example running in a directory with mixed media
# Raw images get moved into a RAW directory
no raw
# Samsung phone detected with date and GPS location
mkdir -p samsung/20220717/Hilversum
mv 20220717_133453.jpg samsung/20220717/Hilversum
# OnePlus phone
mkdir -p OnePlus/20021208/Voorburg
mv IMG_20190109_091825.jpg OnePlus/20021208/Voorburg
# Realme (Added country when not NL)
mkdir -p realme/20220607/Isle of Islay(GB)
mv IMG20220607213630.jpg realme/20220607/Isle of Islay(GB)
# Whatsapp has no date embedded so it gets it from filename
Trying from filename
Trying from filename - maybe without dashes
mkdir -p whatsapp/20221021/
mv IMG-20221021-WA0000.jpg whatsapp/20221021/
# Nikon without GPS
mkdir -p NIKON/20220613/
mv DSC_1423.MOV NIKON/20220613/
# Whatsapp video without exif
mkdir -p whatsapp/20170528/
mv VID-20170528-WA0006.mp4 whatsapp/20170528/
# No camera name detected in exif from mobile movie
mkdir -p 20190114/Maarssen
mv VID_20190114_142455.mp4 20190114/Maarssen
# Location in mp4
mkdir -p 20220607/Lamlash(GB)
mv VID20220607155044.mp4 20220607/Lamlash(GB)
I bought a XT Laser/3 a while ago. And i wanted to get my old programs running on it again.
One of the disk i found was a 5.25 inch boot disk which should contain a boot demo i’ve made in the past with Edk. But it is the secondary drive in this system. Those old machines lack a bios you can change. And change A: for B: for example. Some machines had a program which could alter boot settings. (not this one) So i was playing with jumpers and dipswitches on the motherboard. ( Drive select / Termination / drive before or after the twist in the flatcable. )
Dipswitches on the motherboard
Wellll leave the boot order for now, i needed to get software on the machine using floppy’s. I could not find empty HD disks (1.44MB which i wanted to use) So i took a DD disk and a drill ..
(Image from the internet)
I bought an external usb floppy drive.
Now i have everything to get my programs on the msdos machine.
EXCEPT ….
Diskette didn’t work in the drives. So i bought new old stock diskettes online.
Now i have everything
WRONG again
Formatted 1.44 disk in USBfloppy drive .. OK Read in 3.5 drive on the MSDOS machine .. NOT OK Check drive in MSDOS machine .. is 1.44MB .. OK … check floppy controller in MSDOS machine .. NOT OKAY (720kb is 300kbits per second and 1.44 HD 500kbits per second) So i’m limited to 720kb due to the controller ..
Can the USB Floppy drive read/write 720kb disks .. NO! ( A cheap series made with drives only supporting HD disks )
Alternatives? .. Serial maybe, there is Norton Commander on the MSDOS machine so i could use “link”
Do i still have a USB-RS232 sub-d cable ? YES! Nullmodem cable? NO Make a null modem cable .. i’ve made those before .. BUT no sub-d connectors.
I’ve been throwing away too much in the past.
Now i have to buy those things again:
VGA – 8bit ISA – have 2 now Floppy drive – have one for 1.44 8bit soundblaster compatible – TODO Nullmodem – well i’ve bought connectors for those
I’m using below scripts to generate tunebooks. These books I can print OR view on a tablet using my DIY bluetooth page turner. ( see other post )
I often work on tunes, add notes, text or write other versions. So i needed a fast and simple way to re-generate a tunebook. ( hence the date on the title page and in the name, so i know whats the most recent version ) Now i have a separate tunebook for each instrument, with the same looks
What does this script?
Generates a title page using Latex
Generates a tune index, with page numbers ( works with multipage tunes )
Adds bookmarks to the tunes, so you can use the bookmark link in your reader.
000 title 001 index 002 – 099 xyz (extra pages, not in index) 100 – 999 Tunes (sorting)
000 title.pdf
001aIndex.pdf
002 tuneinfo.pdf
100 The Battle of Aughrim.pdf
101 I was born for sports.pdf
105 Cerlew Jig.pdf
110 Chanters Song.pdf
115 Gander at the Pratie Hole.pdf
120 honeymoon.pdf
125 Kitty Goes a-Milking.pdf
130 Terribus.pdf
./generatebook
Tune PDFs in directory : 8
Needed index pages : 1
Extra pages : 1
Total pages for tunes : 3
create column page as text
Create Index pdf
Create title page pdf
Add bookmarks : ........