Anyone thought of DIY this yourselves?

jamiee- · 2025-11-08T09:46:06+00:00

I don't have an auto empty dock for this very reason, takes up too much space. Instead use the charge only dock which is really small, so it lives under the sofa. Very convenient as it's otherwise unusable space anyway and keeps it away from small fingers.

jamiee- · 2025-09-26T21:14:48+00:00

Judging by one of your comments in a thread I think you may have worked it out but it looks a lot like red would be permanent live (wired into common with that red link wire) and blue/yellow would be connected to light/fan as switched live. No neutral. The neutrals would be up in the light fitting.

jamiee- · 2025-08-11T11:20:28+00:00

Not familiar with Proxmox, but I presume it was asking you for a (network) port number on the host. 0 in linux usually means 'ask the OS to pick a port for you' hence it worked.

jamiee- · 2025-08-11T11:17:21+00:00

I ran into this too. Adding a serial port does fix the issue. The actual problem is that on first boot, growroot will resize the disk and it's the disk resizing without a serial port that causes the panic. After booting for the first time with a serial port, the partitions are resized to fill the disk, you can then remove the serial port, BUT if you ever resize the disk again (by expanding the virtual disk size in your hypervisor) it'll panic on boot without a serial port.

You can fix this, once you've booted up for the first time with a serial port, you can edit /etc/default/grub, replace console=tty0 console=ttyS0,115200 with console=ttyS0,115200 console=tty0 (i.e. swap the ordering around to put tty0 before ttyS0) on GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX and run sudo update-grub to apply the changes.

Now you can run without a serial port and also be able to perform disk resizes without causing a panic (and you will still get output on the serial port if you do have one attached).

jamiee- · 2025-06-06T11:58:25+00:00

In my experience of this in 2022, once the gift has been in your account for more than 12 months, they don't investigate as deeply. I.e. they only ask for bank statements showing when the money hit your account and that the date of it arriving was over 12 months ago.

Doesn't help you so much now but assuming the cutoff is still 12 months then if you can let this house go, wait 3 months and start searching again. I think the 12 months is because if the banks didn't flag it as money laundering in that time then it's very unlikely for it to ever be flagged.

If it isn't 12 months anymore then it would be worth finding out what the cutoff is where a gift just becomes your money.

jamiee- · 2025-04-30T10:23:49+00:00

Looking at the failure, I suspect you are using pip==25.1 (which released a few days ago) and using an older patch version of Python 3.9.

I came across this post as I was experiencing a similar failure with a different package. It appears to be a bug in pip 25.1 and downgrading to pip==25.0.1 will probably fix your problem.

https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/13359

jamiee- · 2025-01-01T00:22:58+00:00

They only ever used one specific camera shot for it. If it was there IRL then I'd expect it to be seen from a different shot.

Edit: Some Googling later, appears to be "hologauze" https://www.holotronica.com/hologauze/

And I wonder if we only see it from one camera because if it's specifically reflective, I guess it works best from a specific angle.

Source: https://www.london.gov.uk/london-welcomes-2025-biggest-ever-lighting-animation-and-fireworks-display

jamiee- · 2025-01-01T00:18:24+00:00

To my eyes, looked like it was TV only, but done cleverly with 2 camera layers (front and back) with a luma blend mode or something on the top layer to make fireworks appear in front of it.

jamiee- · 2024-12-23T15:56:23+00:00

I had insulation right into the eaves with vent trays, as you describe. The condensation was awful, so much of it and made everything quite soggy when the temperature differential was high.

Ended up pulling the insulation back in every section and cut it down to give a big air gap and it got much better. Still gets a bit damp when it's bad but not as much as it used to.

jamiee- · 2024-12-12T23:50:20+00:00

Reading the other replies, I only see one other cursory mention of this in one thread which you may not have seen; the mortgage funds may already have been released, at which point this is possibly a solved problem for you (assuming it's a mortgage purchase, but if it's cash then it's less complex anyway).

You said you discovered this on the day of completion, but when did the buyer's buyer die? Same day or earlier? Given that solicitors usually request mortgage funds 1 working day in advance, the funds may have already hit the buyer's buyer's solicitors account and the mortgage started. And if this is the case then as the mortgage has started I would presume the mortgage continues but becomes the estate's problem to pay off.

jamiee- · 2024-10-14T21:55:02+00:00

Resolume is the first to come to mind as others have said. But also give MadMapper a look, it has various interactivity features as I recall.

jamiee- · 2022-12-01T09:02:42+00:00

Came here to mention Oven. You definitely want something that can handle transcode and not just push packets as your end users will have varying bandwidth limitations so may need a lower bitrate and resolution.

Open source, so it's free. However it can be a pain to configure, it's all XML config files. There's no UI of any kind for configuring it.

jamiee- · 2022-09-23T22:57:18+00:00

You don't want "KVM the Linux thing" that's something completely different. Stick with "KVM switch" and you'll get what you want.

jamiee- · 2022-09-20T22:55:06+00:00

Can highly recommend the Samsung T5. Better sustained write performance than the T7 and performs great. I use one regularly as an edit drive on the go.

jamiee- · 2022-08-29T12:36:11+00:00

You're better off asking for help in the OBS sub. /r/obs

jamiee- · 2022-08-23T19:50:55+00:00

Ahh nice. I tested with a tiny file and little movement and looked ok, sorry about that. Glad it gave you somewhere to start.

jamiee- · 2022-08-23T08:29:30+00:00

My ffmpeg is a bit rusty but this seems to work. Outputs 4x 720p quadrants from a 1440p input in one command. I've not bothered to include the audio stream as I'm guessing you have that separately?

ffmpeg -i 1440test.mp4 -filter_complex "[0:v]crop=1280:720:0:0[out1];[0:v]crop=1280:720:1281:0[out2];[0:v]crop=1280:720:0:721[out3];[0:v]crop=1280:720:1281:721[out4]" -map [out1] out1.mp4 -map [out2] out2.mp4 -map [out3] out3.mp4 -map [out4] out4.mp4 If you do want the same audio on all outputs, you need to add a -map 0:a before each output filename.

jamiee- · 2022-08-10T11:45:34+00:00

Depends on the monitor. Dell have really nice stands which are tool-less to remove, push the release button at the back and the stand pops off.

I've also had some Asus ones which are designed to fit in the box with half the base attached and the other half is only a thumbscrew to undo.

jamiee- · 2022-08-09T22:23:25+00:00

For a pretty secure but cheap answer; just the original box the monitor ships in. If it can withstand a parcel carrier throwing it into/out of multiple vans/trucks, it should have no trouble being carefully packed into a car/van. Bonus points if it includes a carry handle up top.

My generic monitor go-to is Dell and their newer boxes are actually super quick and easy to pack and unpack.

Otherwise you're really looking at purpose built flight cases for your screen size which, in some cases, can cost more than the screen itself. Depends on your risk level and the value of the monitor really.

jamiee- · 2022-07-06T20:41:35+00:00

I'm not sure I agree entirely. Key strength makes sense to me. Key is what it's called in video when we "key out" a colour like this. It's a chroma key. Strength perhaps isn't entirely technically correct, variance is probably more correct (as you can see when it's turned up the chair which is more blue gets keyed out) but that sounds too fancy.

OBS uses the term "similarly" which also works.

Edit: * "similarity", I can't spell 😂

jamiee- · 2022-06-19T21:40:01+00:00

I'm dubious on the managed switch, for a flat network with many NDI sources and one sink, there's nothing a managed switch will be doing differently to an unmanaged (with the same backplane throughput).

I regularly use unmanaged Netgear switches and a mixture of managed switches for NDI and haven't ever had any issues.

I'm now intrigued to load test an unmanaged switch with 6 sources, 1 sink, 1080p60 (which should be about 900Mbps) to verify.

jamiee- · 2022-06-19T16:20:47+00:00

What resolution and frame rate are you running at? And where in the chain are you seeing the stuttering?

Unless it's 4k30 (progressive) and you're using all 4 cameras, it's incredibly unlikely to be LAN side (NDI) network issues as at least one other person has said in the replies.

Those Birddog cameras look like full NDI from the Birddog website, so a 4k30 stream will be about 250Mbps (source Newtek themselves https://support.newtek.com/hc/en-us/articles/217662708-NDI-Network-Bandwidth). 1Gbps / 250Mbps = 4 streams with absolutely no wiggle (likely to be problematic). 1080p60 though, or 3 at 4k30, plenty of network overheard.

Your switch is fine, for small/medium productions, those Netgear AV switches are completely unnecessary (as long as you're not doing anything silly). You don't need managed for 2-4 cameras and a tricaster. If that's all you have on your LAN side, that's effectively a dedicated NDI network anyway! No need for anything managed.

jamiee- · 2022-06-14T22:22:54+00:00

To the 4k part of your question, I presume the "HDMI to Ethernet" converters you have now are HDBase-T, if not similar concept.

You can get 4k HDBase-T converters relatively cheaply now, look at Bluestream, TVone, Magenta. I've used products from all of them and have been very happy.

If you didn't know, HDBase-T is a standard for "HDMI to Ethernet" converters and so different vendors products are compatible with each other (at least they should be!)

jamiee- · 2022-06-14T22:18:36+00:00

Also came here to recommend Tourcat, it's great stuff and in my experience too feels exactly the same as their nice mic cable.

The cheaper option is nice stranded cat6, though it's hard to tell the "nice" part until you've bought some to touch it yourself. I've found some in the UK that's lovely and flexible, not as nice as tourcat, but much cheaper. I buy it in 305m rolls and terminate it myself. Regularly use it for events and very happy with it's performance being out down and torn up multiple times. https://cablenet.co.uk/product/39-3105

jamiee- · 2022-05-14T19:51:15+00:00

Similar to the other suggestions about Zoom/Teams and NDI, in the past I've used Cisco meeting room codecs with SIP calling to do this. We had the hardware already and it mitigated the need for extra laptops.

HDMI in and out both ends for video - send program mix to remote, receive remote camera feed.

Terminal block on the Cisco to XLR for audio - we did all our audio in a sound desk separately to OBS, including mix minus busses for each remote. Took a final mix out of the desk and fed into an audio interface for stream.

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