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HDHomerun experiment

3/5/2015

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Last year I experimented with a couple of HDHomerun units. I wrote some scripts to access the units to allow some DXing experiments. Scans are usually performed every hour on two HDHOMERUN units, with a total of 4 tuners. One unit is connected to a Delhi CYD-1430 UHF antenna. The other unit is connected to my homemade channel 21 yagi. The direction of the antennas varies as I move it around for testing, sometimes towards Plattsburg, occasionally Montreal, but usually Watertown. If both antennas receive the station the table will only show the last scan, which is with the Delhi. 

My regular reception is with a third antenna (Winegard HD-8800) directly pointed towards South Coulton N.Y. and is not shown here, it receives 22 channels 24/7.

The results are available on this web page/widget.
The results are also available on a submenu in my free OTA Ottawa app.
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2015 Update

2/6/2015

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After a very successful and busy Christmas season I spent some time catching up at home. Home projects on the go include installing a furnace, replacing an air exchanger, replacing a stovetop, installing a Hydrogen-Sulphide Iron filter, and making a child proof home office.

I have starting back to my coding projects. I currently have a new IOS app half finished and will start another to program concurrently. Also when bored I am tinkering with my Kiosk Mac app so that it will work with all printers, not just my industrial printer.

Child Proof Home office

My office was displaced from room to room, so many times, since my twins arrived. All I was left with was a desk the kids loved to crawl on and mess up. I hoped to find some cheap ikea wardrobes and make an "wall" office. Luckily ikea was redoing their kitchen line so I snagged two deep Akurum cabinets for $15 and bought 56$ in shelves. 

I wanted secure doors on the cabinets to keep the kids out so I decided to buy a PAX sliding door. After three different IKEA associates told me it wouldn't fit, I bought the cheapest PAX doors HASVIK. The PAX door went on easily.

Knowing how well it worked I wished I had bought a nicer sliding PAX door. I left the bottom open to allow easy access to containers. I found 2 sliding child proof locks from Lowes. It effectively keeps the curious twins out.
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PerlMagick on Mac OS X Mavericks

10/2/2014

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For the third time I reinstalled Mac OS X Mavericks on one of my minis that I use for my Santa projects. I had to reinstall as I had installed wordpress as a test. Wordpress worked but it wrecked all my normal goodies I use with the apache server.

I installed Yosemite on a second partition - more on this later.

Thus I had to reinstall imagemagick. Here are my install instructions.Your install may be different. I installed it like this:


1) I first install x11. Get x11 from here as recommended by apple and install.
http://xquartz.macosforge.org/landing/
2) Make sure you have Xcode installed and the command tools for Xcode also installed

xcode-select -p
if you dont

xcode-select --install
and follow the install instructions if appropriate

3) Next get homebrew by doing this:
ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.github.com/mxcl/homebrew/go/install)"

tested it with these terminal commands
brew doctor
brew --version
Next I install using homebrew
brew install imagemagick --with-x11
4) I had my imagemagick install folder from before so I just used the same version (ImageMagick-6.8.7-1), already tarred. I reinstalled imagemagick with the commands below:

cd ImageMagick-6.8.7-1
./configure -with-perl
make
sudo make install
and it "magickally" worked.
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Weebly Test

10/2/2014

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I am a little fed up with the latest version of the Apple Server Wiki that I am using for my web page, so I am testing Weebly. Web Design Purists scoff at web site creation pages such as Weebly. But so far it looks good as I don't want to out design anyone in that space just have a quick portfolio of my apps and achievements.
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New Blackberry

10/2/2014

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Blackberry just released their comeback business handset. Personally I think it is great but maybe too late. They really should have concentrated their resources on making the best keyboard based handset (not in hindsite, I said this way back when) not compete with everyone from the back. Oh well, I would still like to do a blackberry app (or two), but only if they give me a handset, which is unlikely.
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IOS App Update

10/2/2014

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I have put my current new IOS app on hold as I prepare for my Santa work this season. I will have to rewrite my North Pole and North Pole Hires apps to handle two sites and make it bilingual. In addition I will need to update my Santa Server iPad app to make it bilingual also. I have already started a new Mac app which takes a "net order mode" output and prints not just on a Noritsu as usual but also on a normal event printer such as a DNP DS-40. I actually have written a working version already. After christmas I will use this software and update my mac app "Kiosk Net Order Controller" to include the ability to print to a local event printer not just a high end Noritsu printer.
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