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18May 2022 by jowens No Comments

stream your radio station on alexa for free

DIY, Electronics, Linux, Technical
How to stream your radio station on Alexa A tool to help you stream your radio station to Amazon's Alexa devices.Used by Internet, AM, FM and DAB stations around the world! Not technical? Don't worry. Every step is covered.If you can cut and paste you have this covered.One to one guidance and help available. Step 1. - Pick Station Name, Website and stream address Step 2. Adjust below code to suit the previous choices Below is the JSON you will use as a baseline and adjust for your own names, etc { "interactionModel": { "languageModel": { "invocationName": "radio tincup", "intents": [ { "name": "AMAZON.CancelIntent", "samples": [ "Cancel" ] }, { "name": "AMAZON.HelpIntent", "samples": [ "Help" ] }, { "name": "AMAZON.StopIntent", "samples": [ "Stop" ] }, { "name": "Play", "samples": […
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18May 2022 by jowens No Comments

How to stream your radio station on Alexa

DIY, Electronics, Linux, Technical
A tool to help you stream your radio station to Amazon's Alexa devices.Used by Internet, AM, FM and DAB stations around the world! Reading Timee: 12 minutes In this post I’ll explain how to run your own Internet radio station. On top of that, I’ll show you how to build an Alexa skill to deploy your station in the cloud, so anyone with Alexa can say: “Alexa, play <whatever_station>” and hear your Internet radio station. There are many tutorials that describe this, but most of them require that you pay for some radio station hosting. If that’s easier for you, then you can skip this tutorial. If you want to have your own radio on the Internet (build from scratch) and deploy it or not on Alexa, than this guide is for you.…
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01Jul 2021 by jowens No Comments

Ninja Kitchen System Pulse Disassembly

DIY, Electronics, Repair
Ninja Kitchen System Pulse Blender - Model BL201 We have had our Ninja Kitchen System Pulse blender Model: BL201 for some years now, over time there has been a build up of things that may have leaked from the blender container or single serving blending cups. That residue has got into cracks where you cannot readily clean and is making it rather hard for the switches to engage that turn on the blender when the cup is in the right position. This normally would result in the blender no longer working and someone getting rid of it, for me on the other hand I look how I can tear it apart and clean/fix the issue. This one was a rather oddball as first thing I did was search online for…
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24Nov 2020 by jowens No Comments

Removing Duplicate E-mail Messages From A Mailbox

Linux, SysAdmin, Technical
Occasionally your mail delivery scheme might hiccup, leaving you with duplicate copies of email messages sitting in your mailboxes. I find this happens occasionally if something goes wrong with fetchmail - you kill the fetchmail process before it has expunged the deleted email from the remote POP3 server, so the next time you run fetchmail it downloads a second copy of each email. This is a simple process that I came up with to remove duplicate email messages from a maildir format mailbox. As a bit of background, a maildir mailbox is a small directory tree: $ du .boxes.xml-dev 4 .boxes.xml-dev/tmp 124 .boxes.xml-dev/new 52340 .boxes.xml-dev/cur 52920 .boxes.xml-dev $ Hierarchy is represented by components of the mailbox name separated by dots, so the mailbox above is called xml-dev and it is in the boxes mailbox. Messages are files in…
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13Jun 2020 by jowens No Comments

Whatcom County, WA Scanner Info

Whatcom Scanner
Lingo LE – Law enforcement AOB – Alcohol on Breath ATL – Attempt to Locate BBL – Birch-Bay Lynden Rd CAD or “Screen” – Computer Aided Dispatch (in-car computers) MVA – Motor Vehicle Accident RP – Reporting Party MP – Mile Post NB or SB- Northbound, Southbound DV – Domestic Violence VD – Verbal Domestic DOA – Dead on Arrival RO – Registered Owner DOL – Dept of licensing PSE – Puget Sound Energy MRAP – Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (Vehicle) BearCat – Ballistic Engineered Armored Response Counter Attack Truck Title 69 issues – Usually related to Drugs, reference is to Title RCW 69 481 issues – Mental Health related 301 – DUI related Flagged CPL – Has concealed pistol license “Cold Report” – incident that occurred hours, days or…
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22Mar 2020 by jowens No Comments

Fujitsu ScanSnap ix1500 not staying connected

Electronics, SysAdmin, Technical
Fujitsu ix1500 does not stay connected to Windows 10 Computers. So far the only thing that seems to work to get them to re-connect is a reboot, not exactly a great solution in most of my user's cases. Have tried all known troubleshooting, even some pretty far out there stuff. OK, so the issue was... drum roll please... Another Imaging device had been taking over the Scanner, my main suspect was an HP printer with scan function, once I had disabled the drivers for the other imaging units (that were not needed) it started working perfectly again. I appreciate the responses. So to be clear, the solution was Device Manager>imaging devices>disable all other devices https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/2176006-scansnap-fujitsu-ix500-not-staying-connected
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07Mar 2020 by jowens 1 Comment

How to run xmrig-proxy as a service

Crypto, Linux, SysAdmin, Technical
Create a systemd service unit for it. See the examples on the man page. The simplest example shows how easy it can be to create a service unit: [Unit] Description=Xmrigproxy [Service] User=ubuntu Group=ubuntu ExecStart=/home/ubuntu/xmrig-proxy-5.5.1/xmrig-proxy-notls Restart=always [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target Alias=xmrigproxy.service Store this unit under /etc/systemd/system/xmrigproxy.service, then reload systemd to read this unit file with: $ sudo systemctl daemon-reload Start the service with: $ sudo systemctl start xmrigproxy.service And enable it during startup with: $ sudo systemctl enable xmrigproxy.service You can check the status of the service with: $ systemctl status xmrigproxy.service View the output of the program by using: $ journalctl -u xmrigproxy.service -f
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25Nov 2019 by jowens No Comments

How to use a YubiKey for Two-Factor Secure Shell Authentication

Linux, SysAdmin, Technical
What is Yubikey? YubiKeys are small USB dongles that you can plug into your computer. They can simulate keyboard input, allowing you to enter One Time Passwords (OTPs) with the press of a button to authenticate with services like Google, Dropbox and GitHub. YubiKeys can also be used when logging into a remote server. This guide will show you how to configure your server so that a YubiKey must be plugged in and tapped in order to log in to your server using ssh. Depending on your needs, you can also configure a password in addition to the YubiKey for an extra level of security. If you want to work through this guide but don’t have a YubiKey, you can find one at this link. As of this writing, any key that supports…
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