I'm currently very busy with monkey work, but have time to discuss a recent thing I tried, namely, an attempt to use Google Adwords to track when people are searching for my name. However, it failed because my home site is "under construction", and Adwords Customer Support advised me to clean up my act, make it nicer, and then they'd approve the ad or something.
Wednesday, March 22, 2017
Friday, March 10, 2017
Converting youtube videos to mp3 in Plex Raspberry Pi
See title.That was the goal.
Solution? Youtube-dl. But, there was some fiddling to do. I used pip.
sudo apt-get install pip python-pip
sudo pip install -U pip setuptools ##just in case
sudo pip install --upgrade youtube-dl
sudo apt-get install avconv
sudo apt-get install libavcodec-extra-56 #or libavcodec-extra- - tab for it
sudo apt-get install libav-tools
Then you can use youtube-dl:
sudo youtube-dl --extract-audio --audio-format mp3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyguBEc2dw4
As I mostly only stream music over the Pi, the new 128 GB USB key is ample space. It is mounted automatically at boot to /mnt/usb, so I change to that directory and download mp3 files directly to the proper folder and change the tags in Plex.
Solution? Youtube-dl. But, there was some fiddling to do. I used pip.
sudo apt-get install pip python-pip
sudo pip install -U pip setuptools ##just in case
sudo pip install --upgrade youtube-dl
sudo apt-get install avconv
sudo apt-get install libavcodec-extra-56 #or libavcodec-extra-
sudo apt-get install libav-tools
Then you can use youtube-dl:
sudo youtube-dl --extract-audio --audio-format mp3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyguBEc2dw4
As I mostly only stream music over the Pi, the new 128 GB USB key is ample space. It is mounted automatically at boot to /mnt/usb, so I change to that directory and download mp3 files directly to the proper folder and change the tags in Plex.
Wednesday, March 08, 2017
Weekly Post - New Raspberry Pi
Somehow it's been 10 days since the last post. I'll put it down to lots of work, and also to the fact that my next project is a bit bigger than a media server.
After consulting with colleagues, I will try to successfully install VMWare ESXi on my new laptop. There may be issues with removable devices getting recognized. However, the biggest roadblock I encountered was that small-capacity USB devices (e.g. 1 GB) can't be used to install ESXi, so I had to wait until a small 16-GB USB device would arrive (plus this one has FAT32 like all sub-32 GB devices so it can be used for random systems that can't handle exFAT for instance). I'll place ESXi on this one and go from there.
Along with the USB device above I got another USB device of 128 GB size for about $35, with a smaller form factor. This should be enough for all my music and whatever videos I'd like to be wifi-streamable. I will try to combine this Plex server with bluetooth functionality to try to stream it to a bluetooth speaker, but most likely a DLNA solution would be needed, plus a "remote control" by phone probably, so I might just hold off on this whole idea. Although perhaps I could stream from Plex over wifi on a phone then send that to a bluetooth speaker.....?
In other news, I've begun to make sauerkraut. The first batch was interesting. This next batch will take more time to get through:
Somehow I missed the recent release of the Raspberry Pi Zero with wifi. It's out of stock of course, but does give one an idea of how small can you make a usable pentesting platform. Could also be useful to make an even smaller Plex server. Or you could just get a Bash Bunny.
Below, the one reason why I keep several pots of Hippeastrum bulb with nothing but some leaves most of the year:
After consulting with colleagues, I will try to successfully install VMWare ESXi on my new laptop. There may be issues with removable devices getting recognized. However, the biggest roadblock I encountered was that small-capacity USB devices (e.g. 1 GB) can't be used to install ESXi, so I had to wait until a small 16-GB USB device would arrive (plus this one has FAT32 like all sub-32 GB devices so it can be used for random systems that can't handle exFAT for instance). I'll place ESXi on this one and go from there.
Along with the USB device above I got another USB device of 128 GB size for about $35, with a smaller form factor. This should be enough for all my music and whatever videos I'd like to be wifi-streamable. I will try to combine this Plex server with bluetooth functionality to try to stream it to a bluetooth speaker, but most likely a DLNA solution would be needed, plus a "remote control" by phone probably, so I might just hold off on this whole idea. Although perhaps I could stream from Plex over wifi on a phone then send that to a bluetooth speaker.....?
In other news, I've begun to make sauerkraut. The first batch was interesting. This next batch will take more time to get through:
Somehow I missed the recent release of the Raspberry Pi Zero with wifi. It's out of stock of course, but does give one an idea of how small can you make a usable pentesting platform. Could also be useful to make an even smaller Plex server. Or you could just get a Bash Bunny.
Below, the one reason why I keep several pots of Hippeastrum bulb with nothing but some leaves most of the year:
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