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.

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.

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.

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.