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that showed the current weather would be a good first project so i did some research and decided on the following parts raspberry pi 3 starter kit 32gb 2 5a powersupply official rpi 7 touchscreen eleduino bamboo touchscreen case rii k12bt bluetooth keyboard optional putting the unit together was pretty easy i have done a lot of computer building over the years and this was only difficult because the parts are small i decided that for the software side i wanted to use nodejs i hadn t done much with it at the time so i made a simple website and did most of the data retrieval using client side javascript in fact the node server was only really serving the pages and not doing any processing on them i liked this design but felt the current temp was not as easy to read as i wanted it and it was not a very nodejs project so i decided to take on a v2 of this project this time using electron nodejs reactjs and mobx these are some technologies i had become familiar with at work and wanted to use them for a personal project the clock map current and forecast elements are all react components now and there is a mobx store that has the weather data in in so when the weather data is updated all the react components respond and are automatically updated electron makes the whole project feel more like an app and that is why i used it i have some more ideas on what i might do with it but for right now i am happy how it all turned out the code can be found at https github com kdekorte kwc in the v2 branch and to make it work you will need a weather underground developer key free and to put that and your city and state in the config js file at the root of the project the run npm install once and then npm run kiosk to run it full screen or npm run start to run it on your desktop kiosk mode is specifically designed for the dimensions of the rpi touchscreen so if it looks bad on another screen that is why posted by kevin dekorte at 8 11 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest sunday july 06 2014 at the 6 month point so i have been using my mac for about 6 or 7 months now and i am still happy with the purchase so that is a good sign but what are somethings that linux does better so far the main thing i have found is that spaces on the mac is similar but not near as useful as virtual desktops on linux when i am using my linux machine i use virtual desktops constantly but when i am using the mac i don t not sure why but so far it has yet to stick maybe it is because there is not a panel widget to dock widget to make it easy to switch between them another thing i miss is the package management sure apple has the store but there are several apps that i use that are not in the store and so i have to end up manually updating them it is very annoying when i want to open a program and the first thing it does is to tell me there is an update to it reminds me of using windows and booting up to 5 apps that need updating this problem needs to be solved maybe apple or someone else needs to come up with an open store that is searched by the system update process kinda like how there are alternate package repos to debian and fedora apple needs to provide hooks into system update to make that happen so i don t see it but it sure would be nice finally i still think that the finder could use some work nautilus has always been a good file manager and i think finder could learn a few more things from it there are still some things i don t do the mac way and so that is probably what i am running into renaming a file is still not intuitive pressing enter should open the file not rename it and there is no option menu item for rename posted by kevin dekorte at 6 26 am 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels apple macbook wednesday june 18 2014 dreaming of a new thunderbolt display dear apple since i have purchased my macbook pro 13 late 2013 i have been hoping to get an apple thunderbolt display unfortunately the one that is available is pretty much out of date so while i am still hoping that apple will come out with a new one i thought i would put on my dream display hat and write down those thoughts because thunderbolt 2 is kinda like a cabled version of pcie 2 0 in 4x mode not quite the bandwidth that most people associate with video cards but enough to run a decent card my thought was why can t someone put a video card inside of a thunderbolt display after all we have the mxm standard which allows the video cards in some laptops to be upgraded this way when i am docked at the home or office i have a secondary card that may have some additional opengl muscle over the card in the laptop while still allowing me to have a power saving video card in the laptop itself i typically use my laptop in clamshell mode when it is docked so i don t use the laptop display in that case if mxm is not an option how about the option to use the video card from the new mac pro in here the resolution of the display should be 4kish and at least a 16 10 aspect ratio i think 16 9 is a little short for me as for ports on the back of the display input 1x thunderbolt 2 in that allows a single connection to the computer output 1x thunderbolt 2 again for connecting additional devices 1x displayport 1 2 so i can daisy chain a second display if needed 1x mic built in mic in the display would be nice as well 1x speakers the monitor should have speakers as well 1x 1gb ethernet 1x webcam with light when it is active 4x usb 3 0 ports on the back 1x usb 3 0 on front or side and make it less than 1000 if possible sincerely kevin posted by kevin dekorte at 1 30 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels apple display macbook monitor thunderbolt saturday november 16 2013 moving to macintosh i m been using linux as my primary operating system for more than 13 years and on and off before then however some of the recent changes in the way the desktops are being designed and other factors got me thinking if the gnome desktop is looking more and more like osx maybe i should look at osx so after 6 months of research using the equipment in stores and trying things out i decided that i would get a mac as my next computer i also think i was ready for a change in my personal computing so when the new macbook pro s were released in october i figured it was time to make the move i ended up getting a macbook pro 13 with a 2 8ghz i7 16gb of ram and the 512gb ssd yes i am now broke for awhile the hardware that apple makes is really excellent and i figured if i really hated osx i could always put linux on the machine so i have used the machine for a couple of weeks now and i have to say that while i am not fond of a few things the menu bar at the top and spaces just don t work that well compared to virtual desktops i am finding that i can just use the computer and i am getting used to these changes it is also nice that when buying hardware and software i now do not have to spend a few hours researching if it will work in linux i can usually just look at the box and know i am also having to get used to paying for software again i have to admit that being able to install openoffice on the mac was a big reason to consider it i m not sure i could fork out another 500 in software for the mac so that cost of buying into the mac is pretty low after purchasing the hardware i also have to admit that this is one of the fastest machines i have ever used for day to day activities even faster than some of the massive servers i have used less than 3 years ago i think the ssd is a big part of that as the cpu clock speed is not all that different does this mean i have given up on linux as an operating system definitely not i still use it as my primary os on my work laptop rhel 6 3 and i think as a server os there is nothing better at the moment i will probably always have a linux box somewhere in the house unlike windows 8 also a side note here is that windows 8 is probably one of the main reasons that i started looking at mac i know that i don t use windows personally but others in my house do and after having a loaner machine here it made us all think that windows 8 was not for us at least on the desktop so what does this mean it means that i need to find someone to take over some of my linux projects over the last year i have not had much time for them anyway due to my work schedule i travel a lot more now and it is time the projects had someone focusing on them posted by kevin dekorte at 6 11 am 9 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest saturday october 19 2013 preliminary gnome mplayer and wayland testing on my fedora 19 machine wayland is available and so i thought it would examine what might be needed to make gnome mplayer run in this configuration gtk 3 will support wayland but what i am not finding is a way to embed mplayer into a gtk window the current code uses the gtksocket and passes the xid of that window to mplayer for embedding i am also not completely sure that the gtkplug socket api is going to work on wayland according to the gtk 3 manual i see this note the gtkplug and gtksocket widgets are only available when gtk is compiled for the x11 platform and gdk_windowing_x11 is defined they can only be used on a gdkx11display to use gtkplug and gtksocket you need to include the gtk gtkx h header so the current method of embedding mplayer may be a no go on wayland gtk3 however i believe i may have a workaround for all this i think if we compile gnome mplayer in gtk2 mode and then use xwayland everything should just work it is also possible there will be a way that xwayland is launched for applications that are linked to xlibs or we may just need to but a wrapper script around gnome mplayer to ensure it is launched properly even in gtk3 mode not the cleanest solution but better than nothing once fedora 20 is released and wayland and xwayland are available i will do some more testing and see what needs to happen posted by kevin dekorte at 7 16 am 1 comment email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest tuesday october 30 2012 gnome mplayer 1 0 7 released announcing the release of gnome mplayer 1 0 7 due to a change in the logging of the application gmtk 1 0 7 is required for gnome mplayer and gecko mediaplayer notable changes gnome mplayer now has mpris2 support so as support is added to the applications gnome mplayer should be able to be controlled from several panel applications i have requested this support from several applications but as of yet support has yet to appear added anamorphic 2 39 1 as a preset screen ratio prevent crash message on shutdown gtk compatible logging system fix problem when controlling the playback of audio only files rework playlist handling in gecko mediaplayer so that website playlists are handled in a sane manner and caching is done correctly and the normal stuff several bug fixes additional keyboard shortcuts and fixes files http gmtk googlecode com files gmtk 1 0 7 tar gz http gnome mplayer googlecode com files gnome mplayer 1 0 7 tar gz http gecko mediaplayer googlecode com files gecko mediaplayer 1 0 7 tar gz enjoy posted by kevin dekorte at 12 19 pm 1 comment email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels gnomemplayer friday august 10 2012 using a keyboard and mouse with the kindle fire after installing cm9 with the 3 x kernel on my kindle fire i read about people connecting keyboards mice and other usb devices to the kindle fire in order to do this a usb cable referred to as a otg cable is needed i happened to order this one but there were many options after i got the cable i plugged a usb 2 0 powered hub into the otg cable which was then plugged into the kindle fire a powered hub is essential as the fire does not put out enough voltage to power most external devices also on the kindle fire you will want to install the applications stickmount and file expert from the google play store now for the big test the first thing i did was plug in a usb mouse into the powered usb 2 0 hub much to my surprise a mouse cursor appeared on the screen and i was able to move the mouse around and click a few things i was wondering if the mouse cursor would appear as the kindle fire is a touch screen device both the touch screen and the mouse worked at the same time so nothing was lost so far so good i then plugged in my usb keyboard and then i opened a browser window and was able to type in the url on the physical keyboard so now things are looking pretty promising the next step was to plug in a usb flash drive within a second stickmount popped up a prompt asking me to allow it superuser access and then informing me that the usb device had been mounted in sdcard usbstorage sda1 i then used file expert to navigate to that directory and view the files on the flash drive everything seemed to be there and i was able to open and interact with files just like files found on the kindle internal storage perhaps with the right usb flash drive very low power requirements the usb hub would not be needed and then you would have a solution to the limited space on the fire one of my sticks a 4gb one almost worked but the 32gb one definitely would not now for the things that didn t work i tried to plug in my 1tb external usb harddrive and while the os knew something was there i do not believe the file system drivers were present i also did not have much luck with my usb bluetooth adapter also while these devices where plugged in i could not charge the kindle fire so i was limited on how long the device would run this adapter from amazon may allow you to work around that issue so all in all the fire with the otg cable a powered usb 2 0 hub a usb keyboard and mouse can actually function as a basic computer now i would not recommend this setup for full time usage but if you want something for some basic work that requires a lot of typing on the cheap this would be one option i also see no reason why this setup would not work with other android devices so if you decide to try this i would appreciate some feedback posted by kevin dekorte at 1 32 pm 32 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels fire older posts home subscribe to posts atom about me kevin dekorte view my complete profile my links my projects blog archive 2017 1 february 1 kevin s weather clock 2014 2 july 1 june 1 2013 2 november 1 october 1 2012 6 october 1 august 1 july 1 may 2 april 1 2011 35 december 2 november 1 october 1 august 1 july 3 june 2 may 3 april 10 march 4 february 6 january 2 2010 22 november 3 october 4 september 1 august 2 july 2 june 1 april 1 march 1 february 6 january 1 2009 37 november 3 october 3 september 4 august 3 july 2 may 4 april 2 march 5 february 6 january 5 2008 34 december 2 november 4 october 1 september 3 august 1 july 1 june 4 may 6 april 5 march 2 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