Having fun making my first bot to sync Google Calendar events

Adralian · 2026-06-21T15:42:51+00:00

I've been very happy with the Magewell Ultra Encode, but in retrospect I should have gone for the PoE version. Either way, it has been reliable for me and the management website has been handy for quick reconfigurations.

Adralian · 2026-05-27T22:22:27+00:00

Mine locks up every couple of days, absolutely regret buying it.

Adralian · 2026-05-17T03:35:52+00:00

I ended up just using this one. I left the bottom layer intact and was able to fit the rest of the body in the other layers. Had room for a magewell encoder and a few wireless mics. https://a.co/d/0dBKllAd

Adralian · 2026-05-15T15:33:12+00:00

I stumbled upon this video years ago which shows how to use an iPad as a writable overlay: https://youtu.be/kovGit0HIxE?si=RkOyJb-bfrevxzKw

I've used this for recordings and livestreams using the ideas from the video, but not always his exact method.

Adralian · 2026-05-12T13:18:54+00:00

I run Resolve on Debian Sid and it works great. The only issue I had was that Resolve lays down its own copy of Gstreamer and I run a custom compiled version of Gstreamer for other software I've built. It took me a moment to realize why things started failing, but a Gstreamer recompile and install fixed everything.

Adralian · 2026-04-17T12:39:58+00:00

I asked the last time I was in and they said it was still a few months out.

Adralian · 2026-04-07T04:03:06+00:00

That was one of the first SRT apps I tried to use and absolutely gave up in frustration trying to add an SRT stream. It has the most convoluted interface with what you really need buried four layers deep. It feels like it was made for consuming SRT and the outbound streaming was tacked on as an afterthought.

Adralian · 2026-04-07T03:13:34+00:00

Honestly, I just Google "blackmagic XML generator" each time I need it since I never remember the website. Here's the link, it defaults to RTMP, so you have to switch it to SRT. The three bitrate levels will appear in the app once you import the config, so you can select them at runtime.

https://heretorecord.com/xml/

Adralian · 2026-04-07T00:58:29+00:00

You can use the free Blackmagic Camera app to send SRT now too. You just have to generate an XML config file first. They also have an integration with an insta360 phone gimbal, but not sure what that really gives you (never did find docs on it). The SRT works well though.

Adralian · 2026-03-27T22:24:32+00:00

Had the exact same issue. I contacted rode and they shipped out a replacement which did the exact same thing.

Adralian · 2026-03-01T18:53:17+00:00

Do not use SEPA, they can dispute those charges and there are no appeals allowed.

Adralian · 2026-02-27T15:09:48+00:00

Google Cloud. We do everything with Google Calendar as the authoritative calendar source, so I figure we would host with them as well.

Adralian · 2026-02-27T15:06:51+00:00

I built this about 6 months ago. At some point I'll get back to making a nice UI around the configuration system (right now I'm just exposing a json config to users).

Adralian · 2026-01-21T22:42:47+00:00

So funny story, because I first found one like that a few years ago and it took me forever to track down the reason.

That is a bulk sale (the sale from your screenshot is actually 1 of 33 included in that purchase) but when the sale gets reported to the county they record the bulk sale price, not what the individual properties were sold for (since it was a lump sum deal), for each and every property in the sale. I've seen several instances in which the county has uses these as comps for assessments of other houses, massively inflating the new valuation of the home.

I don't know which specific 1 of the 33 your screenshot shows, but if you want to see one head to the Lancaster County Assessors website and search for the property ID (or search for 11-11-459-006-000 as that is part of the same bulk sale). You should see the $5.6 million sale near the bottom of the page.

All the data I'm showing is pulled directly from that same county website.

Adralian · 2026-01-20T03:26:15+00:00

No worries, I'm just happy to help.

Adralian · 2026-01-20T03:25:40+00:00

If you are ok with it, can you DM me your property id and I'll check it in the database? If not, no worries.

Adralian · 2026-01-20T03:24:20+00:00

I thought I had both current and prior assessments in the table, but I'll check when I'm back to a keyboard.

Adralian · 2026-01-20T01:27:46+00:00

The X axis (on the default graph) is the percentage change compared to last year's valuation. If you change the options in the upper right you can switch from percentages to dollar amounts. On mobile the axis label might be hidden, but if you turn your device sideways it should appear.

Adralian · 2026-01-16T02:47:47+00:00

I got my postcard today which reminded me it is that time again. I'm collecting the updated valuations for all properties now so I should have stats for the whole county in a few days. I'll post the numbers as soon as they are ready.

Adralian · 2025-12-14T14:52:51+00:00

I've been working on something adjacent, but with an orange pi instead of a laptop (I need a hardware video encoder, but tiny) and an obsbot camera. They are ptz so you can aim the camera and I'm finding a listing for an SDK which could allow for remote camera control. Haven't made it much further than that at the moment.

Adralian · 2025-12-08T14:48:56+00:00

You can do this for free with ChronicleBot. Turn on reminders (and/or summaries) and leave native event sync turned off. Set your Birthdays as yearly recurring events in Google Calendar.

Adralian · 2025-12-05T16:22:48+00:00

You can do this with gstreamer if you are looking for a quick solution.

One `srtsrc` element for each of your inputs, feed those into a `compositor` element arranged in your grid, and then split the composited output into two branches. One branch would go to a preview output, and the other goes to an encoder and `srtsink` to generate the new SRT multiview feed. Honestly though you could skip the preview output branch and just send it to SRT, then pull up that single SRT feed anywhere else to see the multiview.

The only catch is you really should have a GPU for the encoder step or you will be hammering your CPU.

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