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+               <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>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Add_on_to_control_the_projector_from_within_Kodi.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Tue, 26 Jun 2018 23:55:00 +0200</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;My movie playing setup involve &lt;a href=&quot;https://kodi.tv/&quot;&gt;Kodi&lt;/a&gt;,
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://openelec.tv&quot;&gt;OpenELEC&lt;/a&gt; (probably soon to be
+replaced with &lt;a href=&quot;https://libreelec.tv/&quot;&gt;LibreELEC&lt;/a&gt;) 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, &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.infocus.com/&quot;&gt;InFocus&lt;/a&gt;, 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
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/infocus-projector-control&quot;&gt;a
+small script to control the projector&lt;/a&gt;.  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.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;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
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/pyserial/pyserial&quot;&gt;pyserial module&lt;/a&gt; in
+the add-on.  The long term solution is to make a &quot;script&quot; type
+pyserial module for Kodi, that can be pulled in as a dependency in
+Kodi.  But until that in place, I embed it.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;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.
+
+&lt;p&gt;If this sound interesting to you, check out
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/fredrik-eriksson/kodi_projcontrol&quot;&gt;the
+project github repository&lt;/a&gt;.  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.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;As usual, if you use Bitcoin and want to show your support of my
+activities, please send Bitcoin donations to my address
+&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;bitcoin:15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b&quot;&gt;15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
+</description>
+       </item>
+       

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                <title>youtube-dl for nedlasting fra NRK med undertekster - nice free software</title>
                <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/youtube_dl_for_nedlasting_fra_NRK_med_undertekster___nice_free_software.html</link>
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                <title>youtube-dl for nedlasting fra NRK med undertekster - nice free software</title>
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 has mostly retired, but found it best to migrate the source to a good
 version control system to help those willing to move it forward.&lt;/p&gt;
 
 has mostly retired, but found it best to migrate the source to a good
 version control system to help those willing to move it forward.&lt;/p&gt;
 

-&lt;p&gt;As usual, if you use Bitcoin and want to show your support of my
-activities, please send Bitcoin donations to my address
-&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;bitcoin:15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b&quot;&gt;15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
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-               <title>Using VLC to stream bittorrent sources</title>
-               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Using_VLC_to_stream_bittorrent_sources.html</link>
-               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Using_VLC_to_stream_bittorrent_sources.html</guid>
-                <pubDate>Wed, 14 Feb 2018 08:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
-               <description>&lt;p&gt;A few days ago, a new major version of
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.videolan.org/&quot;&gt;VLC&lt;/a&gt; was announced, and I
-decided to check out if it now supported streaming over
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://bittorrent.org/&quot;&gt;bittorrent&lt;/a&gt; and
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://webtorrent.io&quot;&gt;webtorrent&lt;/a&gt;.  Bittorrent is one of
-the most efficient ways to distribute large files on the Internet, and
-Webtorrent is a variant of Bittorrent using
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://webrtc.org&quot;&gt;WebRTC&lt;/a&gt; as its transport channel,
-allowing web pages to stream and share files using the same technique.
-The network protocols are similar but not identical, so a client
-supporting one of them can not talk to a client supporting the other.
-I was a bit surprised with what I discovered when I started to look.
-Looking at
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.videolan.org/vlc/releases/3.0.0.html&quot;&gt;the release
-notes&lt;/a&gt; did not help answering this question, so I started searching
-the web.  I found several news articles from 2013, most of them
-tracing the news from Torrentfreak
-(&quot;&lt;a href=https://torrentfreak.com/open-source-giant-vlc-mulls-bittorrent-support-130211/&quot;&gt;Open
-Source Giant VLC Mulls BitTorrent Streaming Support&lt;/a&gt;&quot;), about a
-initiative to pay someone to create a VLC patch for bittorrent
-support.  To figure out what happend with this initiative, I headed
-over to the #videolan IRC channel and asked if there were some bug or
-feature request tickets tracking such feature.  I got an answer from
-lead developer Jean-Babtiste Kempf, telling me that there was a patch
-but neither he nor anyone else knew where it was.  So I searched a bit
-more, and came across an independent
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/johang/vlc-bittorrent&quot;&gt;VLC plugin to add
-bittorrent support&lt;/a&gt;, created by Johan Gunnarsson in 2016/2017.
-Again according to Jean-Babtiste, this is not the patch he was talking
-about.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Anyway, to test the plugin, I made a working Debian package from
-the git repository, with some modifications.  After installing this
-package, I could stream videos from
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.archive.org/&quot;&gt;The Internet Archive&lt;/a&gt; using VLC
-commands like this:&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
-vlc https://archive.org/download/LoveNest/LoveNest_archive.torrent
-&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;The plugin is supposed to handle magnet links too, but since The
-Internet Archive do not have magnet links and I did not want to spend
-time tracking down another source, I have not tested it.  It can take
-quite a while before the video start playing without any indication of
-what is going on from VLC.  It took 10-20 seconds when I measured it.
-Some times the plugin seem unable to find the correct video file to
-play, and show the metadata XML file name in the VLC status line.  I
-have no idea why.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;I have created a &lt;a href=&quot;https://bugs.debian.org/890360&quot;&gt;request for
-a new package in Debian (RFP)&lt;/a&gt; and
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/johang/vlc-bittorrent/issues/1&quot;&gt;asked if
-the upstream author is willing to help make this happen&lt;/a&gt;.  Now we
-wait to see what come out of this.  I do not want to maintain a
-package that is not maintained upstream, nor do I really have time to
-maintain more packages myself, so I might leave it at this.  But I
-really hope someone step up to do the packaging, and hope upstream is
-still maintaining the source.  If you want to help, please update the
-RFP request or the upstream issue.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;I have not found any traces of webtorrent support for VLC.&lt;/p&gt;
-

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