- <title>Add-on to control the projector from within Kodi</title>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Add_on_to_control_the_projector_from_within_Kodi.html</link>
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- <pubDate>Tue, 26 Jun 2018 23:55:00 +0200</pubDate>
- <description><p>My movie playing setup involve <a href="https://kodi.tv/">Kodi</a>,
-<a href="https://openelec.tv">OpenELEC</a> (probably soon to be
-replaced with <a href="https://libreelec.tv/">LibreELEC</a>) and an
-Infocus IN76 video projector. My projector can be controlled via both
-a infrared remote controller, and a RS-232 serial line. The vendor of
-my projector, <a href="https://www.infocus.com/">InFocus</a>, had been
-sensible enough to document the serial protocol in its user manual, so
-it is easily available, and I used it some years ago to write
-<a href="https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/infocus-projector-control">a
-small script to control the projector</a>. For a while now, I longed
-for a setup where the projector was controlled by Kodi, for example in
-such a way that when the screen saver went on, the projector was
-turned off, and when the screen saver exited, the projector was turned
-on again.</p>
-
-<p>A few days ago, with very good help from parts of my family, I
-managed to find a Kodi Add-on for controlling a Epson projector, and
-got in touch with its author to see if we could join forces and make a
-Add-on with support for several projectors. To my pleasure, he was
-positive to the idea, and we set out to add InFocus support to his
-add-on, and make the add-on suitable for the official Kodi add-on
-repository.</p>
-
-<p>The Add-on is now working (for me, at least), with a few minor
-adjustments. The most important change I do relative to the master
-branch in the github repository is embedding the
-<a href="https://github.com/pyserial/pyserial">pyserial module</a> in
-the add-on. The long term solution is to make a "script" type
-pyserial module for Kodi, that can be pulled in as a dependency in
-Kodi. But until that in place, I embed it.</p>
-
-<p>The add-on can be configured to turn on the projector when Kodi
-starts, off when Kodi stops as well as turn the projector off when the
-screensaver start and on when the screesaver stops. It can also be
-told to set the projector source when turning on the projector.
-
-<p>If this sound interesting to you, check out
-<a href="https://github.com/fredrik-eriksson/kodi_projcontrol">the
-project github repository</a>. Perhaps you can send patches to
-support your projector too? As soon as we find time to wrap up the
-latest changes, it should be available for easy installation using any
-Kodi instance.</p>
-
-<p>For future improvements, I would like to add projector model
-detection and the ability to adjust the brightness level of the
-projector from within Kodi. We also need to figure out how to handle
-the cooling period of the projector. My projector refuses to turn on
-for 60 seconds after it was turned off. This is not handled well by
-the add-on at the moment.</p>
+ <title>Nikita version 0.5 released - updated free software archive API server</title>
+ <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Nikita_version_0_5_released___updated_free_software_archive_API_server.html</link>
+ <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Nikita_version_0_5_released___updated_free_software_archive_API_server.html</guid>
+ <pubDate>Mon, 2 Mar 2020 19:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
+ <description><p>Today, after many months of development, a new release of
+<ahref="https://gitlab.com/OsloMet-ABI/nikita-noark5-core/">Nikita
+Noark 5 core project</a> was finally
+<ahref="https://lists.nuug.no/pipermail/nikita-noark/2020-March/000519.html">announced
+on the project mailing list</a>. The Nikita free software solution is
+an implementation of the Norwegian archive standard Noark 5 used by
+government offices in Norway. These were the changes in version 0.5
+since version 0.4, see the email link above for links to a demo
+site:</p>
+
+<ul>
+
+ <li>Updated to Noark 5 versjon 5.0 API specification.
+ <ul>
+ <li>Changed formatting of _links from [] to {} to match IETF draft
+ on JSON HAL.</li>
+ <li>Merged Registrering og Basisregistrering in version 4 to
+ combined Registrering.</li>
+ <li>DokumentObjekt is now subtype of ArkivEnhet.</li>
+ <li>Introducing new entity Arkivnotat.</li>
+ <li>Changed all relation keys to use /v5/ instead of /v4/.</li>
+ <li>Corrected to use new official relation keys when possible.</li>
+ <li>Renamed Sakspart to Part and connect it to Mappe, Registrering
+ and Dokumentbeskrivelse instead of only Saksmappe.</li>
+ <li>Moved Korrespondansepart connection from Journalpost to
+ Registrering.</li>
+ <li>Moved Part and Korrespondansepart from package sakarkiv to
+ arkivstruktur.</li>
+ <li>Renamed presedensstatus to presedensStatus.</li>
+ <li>Use new JSON content-type "application/vnd.noark5+json".</li>
+ <li>Updated prepopulated format list to use PRONOM codes.</li>
+ <li>Implemented endpoint for system information.</li>
+ <li>Implemented national identifiers for both file and record.</li>
+ <li>Implemented comments.</li>
+ <li>implemented sign off.</li>
+ <li>implemented conversion.</li>
+ </ul></li>
+ <li>Improved/implemented OData search and paging support for more entities.</li>
+ <li>No longer exposes attribute Dokumentobjekt.referanseDokumentfil,
+ one should use the relation in _links instead.</li>
+ <li>Corrected relation keys under
+ https://rel.arkivverket.no/noark5/v5/api/administrasjon/, replacing
+ 'administrasjon' with 'admin'.</li>
+ <li>Fixed several security and stability issues discovered by Coverity.</li>
+ <li>Corrected handling ETag errors, now return code 409.</li>
+ <li>Improved handling of Kryssreferanse.</li>
+ <li>Changed internal database model to use UUID/SystemID as primary keys
+ in tables.</li>
+ <li>Changed internal database table names to use package prefix.</li>
+ <li>Changed time zone handling for date and datetime attributes, to be
+ more according to the new definition in the API specification.</li>
+ <li>Change revoke-token to only drop token on POST requests, not GET.</li>
+ <li>Updated to newer Spring version.</li>
+ <li>Changed primary key and URL component for metadata code lists to
+ use the 'kode' value instead of a SystemID.</li>
+ <li>Corrected implementation of Part and Sakspart.</li>
+ <li>Changed instance lists with subtypes (like .../registrering/ and
+ .../mappe/) to include the attributes and _links entries for the
+ subtype in the supertype lists.</li>
+ <li>Adjusted _links relations to make it possible to figure out the
+ entity of an instance using the self->href->relation key lookup
+ method.</li>
+ <li>Fixed several end points to make sure GET, PUT, POST and DELETE
+ match each other.</li>
+ <li>Updated DELETE endpoints to work with UUID based entity
+ identifiers.</li>
+ <li>Restructured code to use more common URL related constants in entry
+ point values and replace @RequestMapping with method specific
+ annotations.</li>
+ <li>Added first unit test code.</li>
+ <li>Updated web GUI to work with the updated API.</li>
+ <li>Changed integer fields, enforce them as numeric.</li>
+ <li>Rewrote and simplify metadata handling to use common service and
+ controller code instead of duplicating for each type.</li>
+ <li>Implemented the remaining metadata types.</li>
+ <li>Changed Country list source from Wikipedia to Debian iso-codes and
+ updated the list of Countries.</li>
+ <li>Many many corrections and improvements.</li>
+
+</ul>
+
+<p>If free and open standardized archiving API sound interesting to
+you, please contact us on IRC
+(<a href="irc://irc.freenode.net/%23nikita">#nikita on
+irc.freenode.net</a>) or email
+(<a href="https://lists.nuug.no/mailman/listinfo/nikita-noark">nikita-noark
+mailing list</a>).</p>