If you’re trying to shrink a video by half along the lines of this, you may encounter an error about “width not divisible by 2” during processing, or you just might get an empty mp4 file: The problem happens when you get interesting video dimensions, such as a vertical video that might be 1080 wide […]
How’s this for cool. It’s possible to embed Gutenberg into any backend plugin page, with a custom save callback. You can get access to the rendered Gutenberg HTML or raw blocks array to do fun things with. This is the minimal amount of code to render a functional Gutenberg Block Editor in the backend: The […]
This technique uses the following Hardware: Sonoff RF Bridge ($14) RaspberryPi Zero W ($10) + SD Card 433MHz open/close magnetic sensor ($6) 433MHz PIR sensor ($5) Micro USB cables (to power Sonoff + Raspberry Pi) USB to Serial adaptor (to flash Tasmota software onto the Sonoff) And the following free and/or open source Software: Tasmota […]
This post will guide you through how to monitor your solar panels using some free open source tools running on your local network. Required technical level: Moderate to Advanced experience with programming/networking/sql/docker. This certainly isn’t a point and click solution. Here’s a summary of the setup: Solar System: 18 x REC 350W panels 18 x […]
You may be wondering: “What is an Elementor Template Kit?” A Template Kit contains pretty visual layouts that are compatible with your page builder. It may contain a nicely designed Home Page, a Contact page, or some Testimonial Blocks that you can drag & drop onto any page. Each of these pre-made templates are fully […]
Lets say you have a PHP script that returns a value, based on a query string: Getting the result of that PHP script into Google Sheets is rather easy. Open Tools > Script Editor in Google Sheets and create a function like this: function getMyQueryValue(value) { var response = UrlFetchApp.fetch(“https://mysite.com.com/query.php?string=” + value); Logger.log(response.getContentText()); return JSON.parse(response); […]
If your curious what programs are attempting to read your Linux webcam then it’s possible to use the auditctl and ausearch tools to see what process is using the webcam. First install the auditd package: sudo apt-get install auditd Then run auditctl to start monitoring the /dev/video0 device for access: sudo /sbin/auditctl -w /dev/video0 -p […]
This can happen if you’re manually messing around with the location of docker configuration files on the hard drives. If the orphan image is from a Community Applications installed docker image, simply follow these steps: Go to the App menu Choose Previous Apps on the left hand side Click the reinstall icon on the app […]
After falling in love with unraid I wanted to improve my test install with new larger hard drives. I had 100GB of docker related files that I wanted to keep spread across 3 old data drives + 1 parity drive. In the below process I consolidate the 100GB into a single drive, install the new […]