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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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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29Oct 2016 by jowens No Comments

Raid Calculations

Electronics, Linux, SysAdmin, Technical
The only redundant storage technique available that uses 3 drives is called RAID-5. This storage array allows one drive in your system to fail, while still retaining all of your data. The basic math behind Raid-5 is (# of Drives * GB per drive) – ( GB per one Drive) Raid can only use the maximum disk space for the smallest drive you have. In your case, a typical 3TB drive is 2794 GB. This plugged into the equation gives: (3 * 2794) – (2794) = 5588 GB of usable storage. (5.58 TB) Your 5TB drive will essentially waste it's extra 2TB and be used as a 3TB drive. http://superuser.com/questions/1100833/calculate-usable-storage-space-with-different-size-drives-in-windows-storage-spa
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29Oct 2016 by jowens No Comments

A little “Storage Spaces” tidbit

Electronics, SysAdmin, Technical
Although Storage Spaces in Windows 8, 8.1 and 10 allow mixing drives of different sizes, it is recommended to use drives that have similar capacity to avoid wasting disk space. For example, if you put one 300 GB disk and one 750 GB disk into a two-way mirror, you'll get a Storage Space (virtual disk) of 525 GB in size. The calculation is (300+750)/2 – to provide fault tolerance, only half of total disk space is available while using two-way mirror. The other half is used for data redundancy in case one of the drives goes offline for some reason. But mirroring means that all member drives contain exactly the same data. That's why the real usable space in this example maxes out at 300 GB (the smaller physical disk…
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