Just another tech blag
I picked up a Dreame X40 Ultra with the intent of installing Valetudo on it. Valetudo is an open source project that cuts the vacuums ties to the cloud and allows it to run entirely locally. This means the map of your house remains your own, the camera feeds from the vacuum remain yours, and all other sensor data remains local and isn’t sold to the nearest bidder.
Continue reading “Installing Valetudo on a Dreame X40 Ultra”I needed a Linux desktop with Wi-Fi capabilities for a project I was working on, flashing valetudo to a dreame x40. The only problem is that my extra computer that I could install the specified Linux flavor on, was a mini PC with no onboard Wi-Fi. So I did some research and found this adapter that has good Linux support:
For Debian, the driver install is a single quick install away.
sudo apt install firmware-mediatek
The adapter ended up working out great and I was able to finish up the valetudo setup with it.
I ran into a weird problem that I wanted to chown a bunch of hidden files and folders, which took a bit of an odd set of arguments to do. It wasn’t difficult, but I wanted to document it
chown -R /path/to/.[^.]*
I ran into some issues with my unraid server recently. The docker image usage started skyrocketing at an alarming rate. I started digging into multiple ways it could be getting filled up and ran into a very odd file while doing so (sadly it didn’t contribute to the docker image usage, but good to have it removed anyway). I ran into a 20GB log file being generated by docker.
Continue reading “Docker Log File Usage”
I made a cyberbrick model and posted it to makerworld, but while telling folks about it, someone mentioned that it would be nice to have a video of it driving to reference when deciding if they wanted to make it. I could record one easily enough on my phone, but I haven’t tried to convert it to a GIF before for use on the various 3d printing websites. I do have VSDC though, so lets use that!
Continue reading “Exporting Gifs using VSDC”
After making This Side Up, I have wanted to make another bot, this time a bit more controllable. I picked motors that were too high of RPM and an ESC without too little finesse to drive it around well. I also felt like trying out the cyberbrick kit from Bambu Labs. So here I am designing a sibling bot using the brick.
Continue reading “Bot 2: Pinch Hazard”
Just trying a new thing here I guess, just a gallery of projects, linking out to the blog posts covering them. Not sure if I’ll do this often, probably not though.
I recently setup the dokuwiki Android app on my phone. The setup was simple enough with one catch. The server URL had to be the URL to the xmlrpc.php file on the server. This couldn’t be just the wiki domain to function. I’m not sure if I missed the note in the setup docs, but felt like ensuring it’s included here for reference.
I noticed that my roku integrations in home assistant weren’t functioning. They were instead throwing an error that “ECP command not allowed in Limited mode”. Luckily this is a pretty easy thing to fix in Roku settings.
Additional options were added to Settings > System > Advanced System Settings > Control by mobile apps > Network access. This is now defaulted to “Limited mode” which disables the access the integration needs. Putting this setting into “Permissive” or “Enabled” will fix the issue.
This is another project I started quite a few years ago. I printed out a number of the small parts for the mask, though never got to the larger parts of the print, and still had plenty left to do on it. I didn’t intend to make it wearable, so that will at least simplify some of the construction.
Continue reading “Finishing Old Projects 3 – Dishonored (Corvo’s) Mask”