+ <div class="entry">
+ <div class="title"><a href="https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Invidious_add_on_for_Kodi_20.html">Invidious add-on for Kodi 20</a></div>
+ <div class="date">10th August 2023</div>
+ <div class="body"><p>I still enjoy <a href="https://kodi.tv/">Kodi</a> and
+<a href="https://libreelec.tv/">LibreELEC</a> as my multimedia center
+at home. Sadly two of the services I really would like to use from
+within Kodi are not easily available. The most wanted add-on would be
+one making <a href="https://archive.org/">The Internet Archive</a>
+available, and it has
+<a href="https://kodi.wiki/view/Add-on:Internet_Archive">not been
+working</a> for many years. The second most wanted add-on is one
+using <a href="https://invidious.io/">the Invidious privacy enhanced
+Youtube frontent</a>. A plugin for this has been partly working, but
+not been kept up to date in the Kodi add-on repository, and its
+upstream seem to have given it up in april this year, when the git
+repository was closed. A few days ago I got tired of this sad state
+of affairs and decided to have a improve the Invidious add-on. As
+<a href="https://github.com/iv-org/invidious/issues/3872">Google has
+already attacked</a> the Invidious concept, so it need all the support
+if can get. My small contribution here is to improve the service
+status on Kodi.</p>
+
+<p>I added support to the Invidious add-on for automatically picking a
+working Invidious instance, instead of requiring the user to specify
+the URL to a specific instance after installation. I also had a look
+at the set of patches floating around in the various forks on github,
+and decided to clean up at least some of the features I liked and
+integrate them into my new release branch. Now the plugin can handle
+channel and short video items in search results. Earlier it could
+only handle single video instances in the search response. I also
+brushed up the set of metadata displayed a bit, but hope I can figure
+out how to get more relevant metadata displayed.</p>
+
+<p>Because I only use Kodi 20 myself, I only test on version 20 and am
+only motived to ensure version 20 is working. Because of API changes
+between version 19 and 20, I suspect it will fail with earlier Kodi
+versions.</p>
+
+<p>I already
+<a href="https://github.com/xbmc/repo-plugins/pull/4363">asked to have
+the add-on added</a> to the official Kodi 20 repository, and is
+waiting to heard back from the repo maintainers.</p>
+
+<p>As usual, if you use Bitcoin and want to show your support of my
+activities, please send Bitcoin donations to my address
+<b><a href="bitcoin:15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b">15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b</a></b>.</p>
+</div>
+ <div class="tags">
+
+
+ Tags: <a href="https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>, <a href="https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/kodi">kodi</a>, <a href="https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/multimedia">multimedia</a>, <a href="https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/video">video</a>.
+
+
+ </div>
+ </div>
+ <div class="padding"></div>
+
<div class="entry">
<div class="title"><a href="https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/What_did_I_learn_from_OpenSnitch_this_summer_.html">What did I learn from OpenSnitch this summer?</a></div>
<div class="date">11th June 2023</div>
<p>As usual, if you use Bitcoin and want to show your support of my
activities, please send Bitcoin donations to my address
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+
+<p><strong>Update 2023-06-12</strong>: I got a tip about
+<a href="https://wiki.debian.org/PrivacyIssues">a list of privacy
+issues in Free Software</a> and the
+<a href="irc://irc.debian.org/%23debian-privacy">#debian-privacy IRC
+channel</a> discussing these topics.</p>
+
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- <div class="entry">
- <div class="title"><a href="https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/LinuxCNC_MQTT_publisher_component.html">LinuxCNC MQTT publisher component</a></div>
- <div class="date"> 8th January 2023</div>
- <div class="body"><p>I watched <a href="https://yewtu.be/watch?v=jmKUV3aNLjk">a 2015
-video from Andreas Schiffler</a> the other day, where he set up
-<a href="https://linuxcnc.org/">LinuxCNC</a> to send status
-information to the MQTT broker IBM Bluemix. As I also use MQTT for
-graphing, it occured to me that a generic MQTT LinuxCNC component
-would be useful and I set out to implement it. Today I got the first
-draft limping along and submitted as
-<a href="https://github.com/LinuxCNC/linuxcnc/pull/2253">a patch to the
-LinuxCNC project</a>.</p>
-
-<p>The simple part was setting up the MQTT publishing code in Python.
-I already have set up other parts submitting data to my Mosquito MQTT
-broker, so I could reuse that code. Writing a LinuxCNC component in
-Python as new to me, but using existing examples in the code
-repository and the extensive documentation, this was fairly straight
-forward. The hardest part was creating a automated test for the
-component to ensure it was working. Testing it in a simulated
-LinuxCNC machine proved very useful, as I discovered features I needed
-that I had not thought of yet, and adjusted the code quite a bit to
-make it easier to test without a operational MQTT broker
-available.</p>
-
-<p>The draft is ready and working, but I am unsure which LinuxCNC HAL
-pins I should collect and publish by default (in other words, the
-default set of information pieces published), and how to get the
-machine name from the LinuxCNC INI file. The latter is a minor
-detail, but I expect it would be useful in a setup with several
-machines available. I am hoping for feedback from the experienced
-LinuxCNC developers and users, to make the component even better
-before it can go into the mainland LinuxCNC code base.</p>
-
-<p>Since I started on the MQTT component, I came across
-<a href="https://yewtu.be/watch?v=Bqa2grG0XtA">another video from Kent
-VanderVelden</a> where he combine LinuxCNC with a set of screen glasses
-controlled by a Raspberry Pi, and it occured to me that it would
-be useful for such use cases if LinuxCNC also provided a REST API for
-querying its status. I hope to start on such component once the MQTT
-component is working well.</p>
-
-<p>As usual, if you use Bitcoin and want to show your support of my
-activities, please send Bitcoin donations to my address
-<b><a href="bitcoin:15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b">15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b</a></b>.</p>
-</div>
- <div class="tags">
-
-
- Tags: <a href="https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian">debian</a>, <a href="https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>, <a href="https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/linuxcnc">linuxcnc</a>, <a href="https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/robot">robot</a>.
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