• No Earthfiles Podcast today?

    Looks like a new broadcast on YouToot. Probably computer trouble or something.

    If you don’t do anything on the computer, you have no trouble. You’ll have lots of trouble if you try making a static ffmpeg build, and all the dependencies. What happens if I use the system ones? Cause this is a real pain in the ass.

    I can test the free noise suppressing plugin for audio unit or something, it works in Garage Band. I know sort of how to use Garage Band now. I had to look at the help though.

    And I won’t be using it for much, other then testing. It crashed Audacity if I use it in Linux. The other program I found, I can’t tell you how to use. I’d rather pay $300 for a program, then try to figure that one out. But you don’t have to spend that much.

    Update
    It downloaded at 5:30 AM, or started downloading. There was a notification this morning about it, so it’s automatically downloading Podcasts now.

    Update
    Should have said I thought it downloaded. Failed because the XML has no download URL. Well I might get another notification once the URL is available. Should click the link on the site and see if that download URL works. If it does, no idea why it isn’t in the feed. The previous one has an URL.

    And I think Podbean or whatever is having an issue, once it shows up on iTunes, I’ll probably be able to download it the way it’s supposed to download.

    No idea why the delay in it being on the other services.

    But it isn’t worth listening to or watching, if I can’t automate downloading it and getting a notification.

  • Orb 6/23/23

    Looks like a small orb to me.

    Apparently VideoToolBox can’t encode video at the resolution of my security camera, it can do 1080p. I just used the software encoder. Didn’t take long on Mac mini, but should have done on desktop, since it was using software anyways.

  • Switching to the poodcast Earthfiles

    I kept forgetting to check YouTube last week. No notifications on YouToot, don’t want any anyways. I don’t really use YouToot for anything else.

    I installed gPodder on my desktop, and setup a cronjob to download, assuming it works, the new Earthfiles is finally available according to their podcast subdomain. I changed my cronjob to every 30 minutes, instead of once an hour, so soon I’ll find out if everything works.

    Also using inotifywait to notify me when there’s a new podcast, so I don’t forget to look.


    #!/bin/bash

    TARGET=/media/fast_stuff/Downloads
    inotifywait -m -e create --format "%w%f" -r $TARGET \
    | while read FILENAME
    do
    D=$(date)
    echo "New podcast $FILENAME $D" > /dev/pts/0
    done

    If you use kdialog or the other notify thing, as soon as it’s gone, it’s gone for good, it won’t be under notifications. So if you are sleeping, you won’t know it downloaded anything.

    /usr/bin/gpo download that should be all you need to download. But you can avoid inotifywait, if you make the script notify you instead, like after it downloads, instead of when it starts downloading.

    I added “-e close_write”, so perhaps I’ll get two notifications now.

    I have that script running from a service file, changing m to d does not work, it won’t notify you.

    And you might need to run gpo update before download. Those notifications may make my music stutter a little. I blame KDE and Wayland. Does update download too?

    Well, I can see how long it took to download the way it is. And a notification every time I go into the folder in Dolphin.

    Changed “close_write” to “move_self”. Perhaps that will just tell me when it’s done, it has a .partial extension for the first notification.

    Hopefully it works with cron too, probably won’t find out till next week.

  • Camera glitch?

    No idea, but I don’t think the light from outside should be able to hit that spot.

    The light has different colors in it too. Unless the outside light, reflected off something.

    I think that’s the notification I got. But it was too late to see it on the live camera. It isn’t visible for very long.

  • Well, I can’t see a fly on camera without IR on

    There was just one in front of my computer.

    And I look like I’m in fast motion. Either I need to change the Frame Interval or watch some other way. What is the default? 60? No idea.

    Don’t follow Scrypted’s advice. I already don’t follow their codec advice.

    Maybe it isn’t the Frame Interval, no idea. But never noticed until now. Maybe it’s missing frames, that means this 6 TB SMR I believe drive, is too slow.

    The default might be 30, 120 too much.

    Now I wonder what that video would have looked like, with the frame interval at 30.

    And maybe that’s why screens getting turned on aren’t recorded anymore. It might take more work, to make it happen with 120 frame interval, which would suggest intelligence is behind it, like my dad.

    Cameras set back to 30 frame interval. The internet said 30 is usually the default. Now to see if I messed up Scrypted. Probably. At least the streams that aren’t be transcoded.

    Packet loss, but still works. Set max bitrate for stream 2 to 896 Kb/s. Seems to have fixed the packet loss.

    It isn’t transcoding, so the bitrate is whatever the camera is set to for stream 2, even though in the console it says “Modified bitrate”, it doesn’t check if what it’s replacing is in the arguments. But if you compare it to the original, it should be the same.

    If it’s transcoding, it changes the bitrate. You can add logic to the script, I’m too lazy.

    Rebooted cameras, as it’s still too fast. Or was, waiting for video to finish recording. If that doesn’t fix it, then perhaps VLC is broken.

    If you change the playback speed to slower, it might be more normal speed.

    Maybe Wayland is broken, going to test SMPlayer. I had to kill mpv, as it made my computer lag. And my music. Uninstalled SMPlayer, you can use mpv without it, not sure it’s any better.

    Oh it’s probably because I’m using Bluetooth headphones. But I think if I mute it, it’s still too fast. Changing the audio output in KDE doesn’t fix it. Would be out of sync maybe. Should see what YouToot looks like. It’s probably fine.

    Not the frame interval or Wayland, most likely the exposure. Looked at videos from earlier, they are fine. Now to remove mpv as well, don’t need it.

    So a shutter of 1/12 makes it brighter and faster.

    How do you get it brighter without changing the shutter? Plenty bright at 1/30. Got to wait for a video. The camera feed on the camera looks fine though, even at 1/12 I think.

    Appears to be fine now.

    But I think that video was before I changed the exposure. And should have noticed sooner, as it recorded screens waking up, but one video I watched, was missing stuff. Either the shutter speed does something to video, or the camera can’t handle 1/12.

    Well I can’t see a fly with the shutter set to 1/12 without IR. Not sure about 1/30, the fly went away.

    And it should have motion blur, if you set it either too fast or too slow, I forgot what it said. Said to set it to double the FPS, which is probably why it’s too dark. If you want auto to work, you have to change it to 15 FPS I guess. Not sure any of that info applies to security cameras though.

    Maybe replace it with a Hikvision camera. The auto exposure might work on it. This camera has a higher resolution then old camera, but exposes worse. Hikvision might get color night vision as well.

  • Tonka was on the bed last night

    If what I vaguely remember happened. Right before I fell a sleep, I heard Tonka get on the bed, and I said “goodnight Tonka” and then “I love you Tonka”. Fell a sleep after that.

    It wasn’t as automatic as some of the things I’ve said in bed. Still automatic, just not as automatic.

    How did I know Tonka is who was getting on the bed? I think it was the beginning of the year, and all three dogs, and a cat visited me. I assume all three dogs were there. Probably obvious that Tonka is who was getting on the bed, it’s her bed, and her apartment, and we may have the strongest connection.

    Oh and I also realized the other day, the reason deceased family interacts with me, is because I’d feel even worse if they didn’t. Somebody said they don’t usually interact with the living, as they don’t want to make grieving worse. Apparently, I feel worse with zero interaction. Since they can see the most likely outcome of what they want to do, they can see I’m probably going to feel worse, if they do nothing.

    I think a psychic said that, probably the guy on Netflix. They should make more episodes of that show.

    Still waiting for The Blackwell Ghost 8. When will it be released?

  • Monitor woke up at least two times while in bed

    No idea why. The first time, was shortly after I went to bed. Or maybe right after I went to bed. I may not have been sleeping yet.

    I did post something about I should ask my dad to wake something up. Perhaps that’s close enough to asking, to get somebody to do something.

    In that case, I can confirm he’s waking it up.

    Nothing wakes up for unknown reasons much anymore. I wasn’t expecting anything to be on the security camera. I did change the exposure, changing the brightness won’t completely fix it. I could probably keep the brightness at the default now. Apparently this camera, with a higher resolution, can’t auto expose as good as the other one. I just have it set to a day and night profile, turns to the night profile at 4:29 PM I think, until 10 AM.

    But the exposure I changed it to, might be fine for all the time.

    Good thing that worked, I don’t want to try finding IR lights to buy. I looked once, but the one I looked at, might be junk. Not even sure that would fix it anyways. If the exposure is wrong.

    I might need a NVR, for some times, I have images, but no videos. Where’s the videos? Problem with NVR, is the one I want to use, probably requires the entire OS to be 64bit, and my Raspberry Pi only has a 64bit kernel, too lazy to reconfigure the entire thing. The Mac mini would be the best to use, but with FileVault on, nothing will auto load on rebooting. You have to manually login first, no auto logging in. Think that was on by default. I don’t intend on disabling it.

  • That answers why sometimes when I go to bed, I feel movement, like the bed moving

    I finally asked Tonka, if she could go on the bed. Very quickly, after asking her, by speaking the words of course, I felt movement on the bed.

    I figured out somehow, that all you have to do is ask, and she might go on the bed. Well, she probably told me. Or somebody else told me. That was a while ago, I just haven’t actually tried it yet. I think I automatically asked her to do it the first time, just like I automatically prayed to God asking to take good care of her. I can’t explain how that automatic stuff happens, at all. When I went to bed, I didn’t automatically do it. I think I may have woke up and automatically asked her to do it, when I figured out you just have to ask.

    At some point, I need to ask my dad, to turn a screen on. If something turns on very quickly after asking, that basically confirms, he did it, and was the one most likely doing it in the past.

    Good thing I’m already insane, so they won’t need to diagnose me with anything else, for believing what I believe.

    I should also ask God, if they can do something about my depression. And if my depression is gone, or way less, the doctor won’t be able to explain it. Because doctors don’t believe in God apparently.

    Republicans claim to believe in God though, so perhaps they will believe you?

    She must be here a lot, well she also knows what I’m most likely going to do. So she may come here sometime before I do it. I think most spirits, are impatient.

    Also, dogs love their person a ton, just like I love her a ton. I don’t think God or anybody else, intended for me to be destroyed when loved ones die though. That may be related to humans disconnect from their soul and God. Which also wasn’t intended to happen.

  • Can you see a fly on a security camera with IR or night mode off?

    If not, I don’t know what they are. That isn’t dust, I know that. Pretty sure, dust only shows up on IR.

    That reminds me, I need to increase the brightness on that camera.

    The title should be “Are flies visible on security camera with IR or night mode off?”. Or maybe “flying bugs” instead of flies. Saying you, implies just one person, you. But perhaps you can see flies on security camera footage, but I can’t. I’ll keep the wrong or right title.

    And that might be a big fly, if it they are a fly.

    The resolution sucks, so zooming in is useless. But if it’s like the ball of lights on IR, I don’t know what flying bug that is.

    If the IR was on, it should have been in black and white.

  • Of course the news isn’t covering it

    You really think Fake(Fox) News is going to cover that? They are all about money and power.

    Well, I don’t watch Fake News. But the other news ain’t covering it either. I don’t watch much news anymore. Only when at my mom’s house sometimes.

    They mostly talk about republicans. Like taking rights away, being pro life, but for the death penalty. Making it easier to cheat in elections, and harder to vote of course. They won’t change their policies, not unless somebody rich gives them money, for different policies. Is it even what they believe? Or are they just being controlled by money? Could be the same with democrats too.

    So maybe don’t vote for anybody. But then you risk a republican getting elected. How about republicans have the house or senate, and a democrat has the presidency like now? Maybe not the house, as then they can blackmail America.

    And why won’t either party impeach somebody in their own party? Apparently if somebody like Trump, was a democrat, democrats wouldn’t vote to impeach them.

    So no party will go against a horrible person in their own party. Is there any country, where they will? If not, I should become an indigenous person.