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Harmony Hub Alexa Fix

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I currently use the Harmony Hub (Logitech) paired with my Alexa to control my TV with voice commands.  A couple weeks ago, it quit working. So, I tried the basic stuff: power cycle the hub, power cycle alexa, even tried disabling the Harmony skill and reenabling it.  (I DID notice that I could control the Hub just fine from my cell phone, but that defeats using it through Alexa, so it accepts voice commands.) All to no avail.  This is how I fixed it.

Exit the Harmony app on your phone completely by force closing it. Clear the application data – this will make it so it’s like you’re setting up a brand new hub when you re-open the app.

Uninstall the Harmony app from your phone, and reinstall it.

Unplug the Harmony Hub. Before re-plugging it in, hold down the pair / reset button, then re-plug it in while holding the button down. Continue to hold the button down for 5 seconds and the hub should start flashing rapidly red. After about 30 seconds, it should go to a slower flashing red. If it’s solid red, press the “pair / reset” button again, wait for a bit, and it should start flashing slowly.

Re-open the Harmony App on your phone and select “Setup hub”. Proceed like you’re setting up a brand new hub, but when prompted to setup a new account – select login instead to login to your account.

Next you should get the option to restore your previous settings or start fresh. Select restore and all of your previous activities / devices should be restored.

Key things that took some figuring out for me was how to get re-connected to the hub to set it up after the factory reset. It seems just removing/installing it and telling it to setup a new hub wouldn’t allow it to be found for me because it was looking on my network – I had to completely clear the app out so that it forced me to be logged out. Then it would go through the setup of my wifi and other settings for the hub, which made it discoverable again.

Information, Music News, Server Information

Huge Bootleg mp3 add

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Well, it’s about time!  Yesterday, I sent to the server a HUGE bootleg mp3 upload.  26.6GB.  Been wanting to do that since I retired Dec 2020, but amazing that being retired doesn’t mean that you have more free time, it just fills up with lots of other stuff, lol.

This update will certainly appeal to my main QA/QC guy, Ed Wilhelm.  This is because, in 2017 I uploaded three versions of a King Biscuit Flower Hour concert of Foghat.  Ed quickly noted that Slow Ride, track 6 on the three versions all had the same glitch.  That kind of sucked, but I have been searching for almost five years, and found GOOD copies of them, I named them the same, but will soon be replacing the bad copies.  😉

The new bootlegs are already in the playlist rotation on KRAB radio, so you may request them already.  Easiest way to find them is to click on the link above, then click the NEW link in the right frame.  They should be there a month.  If you want to stream KRAB in a browser tab, just click on this stream KRAB radio link.  For those that have ftp or web back door access, they are in the New directory, at least until the next upload.  😀

If you wish log in access to this blog, or to talk about ftp access, the easiest way is to either: call me, email me, or shoot me a Facebook DM.  Well, enough about all that.  What follows below is the bootleg music I added.  Enjoy!! 

(*** BTW, if there’s something not here that you would like, I take requests, and will add them, if I can find them. ***)

ACDC – 1974.1976.1977.1978 – Transmission Impossible (FM)
ACDC – 2005 – A Vulgar Display Of Ultra Rare Tracks (SBD)
Ace Frehley – 1987-2008 – 13 Live Picks (SBD)
Ace Frehley – 1988.06.26 – Live FM Broadcast, Limelight, NY (FM)
Aerosmith – 1973-1976 – The Boys From Boston 8CD (SBD)
Aerosmith – 1974.04.14 – Masonic Hall, Detroit, MI (SBD)
Aerosmith – 1975.08.29 – Central Park, NY (FM)
Aerosmith – 1978.03.24 – Vetrerans Auditorium, Columbus, OH (SBD)
Aerosmith – 1978.03.26 – Live At The Tower (1991 Carlotta) (FM)
Aerosmith – 1978.03.28 – Boston Bootleg (FM)
Aerosmith – 1978 – Live Bootleg (SBD)
Aerosmith – 1987.11.16 – Sweet Emotion (Historic Radio Recording Remastered) (SBD)
Aerosmith – 1988.09.15 – The End Of The Summer Nights (SBD)
Alice Cooper – 1972.04.22 – Long Island, NY (SBD)
Alice Cooper – 1973.05.30 – Minneapolis, MN (SBD)
Alice Cooper – 1975.1978.1979 – Transmission Impossible (FM)
April Wine – 1981.01.27 – Hammersmith Odeon, London (SBD)
Asia – 1993.02.19 – With Special Guest Steve Howe (SBD)
Bachman Turner Overdrive – 1984.09.24 Captured Live Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada (FM)
Bachman Turner Overdrive – 1984 – Harpo’s Concert Theater (FM)
Bachman Turner Overdrive – 1990.12.31 – Back On The Highway – Vancouver CFOX (FM)
Black Sabbath – 1973.03.11.16 – Live at Last, England (SBD)
Black Sabbath – 1974.01.11 – Gothenburg, Sweden (SBD)
Blue Cheer – 1980 – Unreleased LP (1978-1980) (SBD)
BOC – 1986.03.27 – KBFH Santa Monica, CA (FM)
Bruce Springsteen – 1975.08.13-17 – The Complete Bottom Line Broadcast (FM)
Bruce Springsteen – 1975.10.02 – The Milwaukee Bomb Scare Show (SBD)
Bruce Springsteen – 1978.08.09 – Summertime Bruce (SBD)
Bruce Springsteen – 1978.09.30 – Live At The Fox, Atlanta, Georgia (SBD)
Bruce Springsteen – 1978 – Piece De Resistance (SBD)
Bruce Springsteen – 1985 – Nebraska Live 84-85 (SBD)
Bruce Springsteen – 1988.09.21 – Los Angeles (EX-AUD)
Bruce Springsteen – 1992.06.15 – Live At The Globe (SBD)
Bruce Springsteen – 1996.11.08 – Freehold Night (SBD)
Bruce Springsteen – 2002.11.16 – Greensboro (SBD)
Bruce Springsteen – 2004 – Vote For Change Tour, Cleveland
Bruce Springsteen – 2005 – Devil & Dust tour Asbury Park (SBD)
Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band – 2003.09.27 – Milwaukee WI (SBD)
Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band – 2003 – Live In Barcelona (SBD)
Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band – 2009.06.28 – London Calling Live In Hyde Park (SBD)
Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band – 2016.01.19 – United Center, Chicago, IL (SBD)
Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band – 2016.01.31 – Prudential Center, Newark, NJ (SBD)
Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band – 2016.02.23 – Quickens Loan Arena, Cleveland, OH (SBD)
Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band – 2016.05.17 – Estadio de Anoeta, San Sebastian, ES (SBD)
CCR – 1969.08.16 Live At Woodstock
CCR – 1971.07.04 – Fillmore West, SF, Closing Night (FM)
Cheap Trick – 1974-2000 – Covers Bun E’s Basement Bootlegs (SBD)
Cheap Trick – 1976.11.xx – Cheeseland 1976 (Bun E.’s Basement) (SBD)
Cheap Trick – 1977.10.31 – Rockford, IL (SBD)
Cheap Trick – 1977.11.14 – Stanley Theatre, Pittsburg, PA (SBD)
Cheap Trick – 1977.12.20 – Mantra Studios, Chicago, IL( WKQX-FM)
Cheap Trick – 1977.12.31 – New Years At The Forum (Millard Masters) (VG-AUD@320)
Cheap Trick – 1979.02.03 – Liverpool University, Liverpool, England (FM) VBR
Cheap Trick – 1979.06.16 – International Amphitheatre, Chicago, IL (SBD)
Cheap Trick – 2010.03.26 – Enoch, Alberta, Canada (SBD)
Chickenfoot – 2010.04.24 – Cabo Wabo, Cabo San Lucas (Webcast)
Copperhead – 1973.01.xx – Lonesome Trails (SBD)
Deep Purple – 1975.04.07 – Live In Paris, Blackmores last (SBD)
Deep Purple – 1994.07.06 – The Last Battle (SBD)
Def Leppard – 2002.12.14 – San Francisco, CA (X Tour) (FM)
Dire Straits – 1977 – First Album Demo Tape London, England (SBD)
Dire Straits – 2017 – Altermate Brothers In Arms (SBD)
Dire Straits & Mark Knopfler – Rarities (SBD)
Doobie Brothers – 1979.02.22 – Budokan Hall, Tokyo, Japan (SBD)
Doobie Brothers – 1990.01.25 – Honolulu, Hawaii (Pre-FM)
Eagles – 1977.07.09 – Houston, TX, Hotel California Tour (SBD)
Eagles – 1980.03.04 – The Forum, Inglewood California (SBD)
Emerson Lake & Powell – 1986 – Rehearsals and Demos CD1 (SBD)
Emerson Lake & Powell – 1986 – Rehearsals and Demos CD2 (SBD)
Foghat – 1976 – KBFH
Foghat – 1976 – King Biscuit Flower Hour (FM)
Foghat – 1999 – King Biscuit Flower Hour 1976
Foreigner – 1993 – Electric Ladyland, New York, NY (FM)
Foreigner – 1995.02.24 – House of Blues, Hollywood, CA (FM)
Frank Zappa – 2022 – Transmission Impossible (SBD)
Free – 1970.01.00 – Sunderland, England (SBD)
Genesis – 1980.05.07 – London, England (FM)
Golden Earring – 2008.04.22 Acoustic Live (SBD)
Greta Van Fleet – 2018.06.26 KROQ Sound Space in Los Angeles (SBD)
Greta Van Fleet- [2019.01.22 – Osaka, Japan (Ex MultiAUD)
Greta Van Fleet – 2019.03.29 – Lollapalooza Festival Chile (SBD)
Heart – 1978.05.12 – Fresno, CA
Heart – 1981.xx.xx – Phoenix, Arizona (FM)
Heart – 1986.06.25 – Tokyo, Japan (SBD)
Heaven and Hell – 2007.03.22 – Toronto, Ontario, Canada (SBD)
Heaven and Hell – 2009.06.16 – Museumsplatz, Bonn, Germany (FM)
Helloween – 2018.03.18 – Zepp Sapporo, Sapporo, Japan (Matrix)
Joan Jett – 1982.02.20 – Toronto, Ontario, Canada (FM)
Joe Satriani – 1988.04.16 – Fillmore San Francisco Surfing (SBD)
John Cipollina – 1967-1980 – Ultra Rare Tracks, Demos, and Home Recordings (SBD)
John Lennon – 1971 – Imagine (Raw Studio Mixes) (SBD)
John Lennon – 1972.08.30 – Live In New York City (SBD)
Judas Priest – 1981.07.22 – The Palladium, New York, NY (FM)
Kansas – 1976.02.22 – Villanova, PA (SBD)
Kansas – 1978.07.25 – Pine Knob, Detroit, MI (SBD)
Kiss – 1980.11.18.22 – Australia (SBD)
Kiss – 1995.07.22 – Cobo Arena, Detroit, MI (SBD)
Lita Ford – 1984.08.31 Harpo’s, Detroit, MI (FM)
Lynyrd Skynyrd – 1975.04.27 – Winterland, San Francisco, CA (SBD)
Lynyrd Skynyrd – 1975.11.04 – Another Road Cardiff, Wales (SBD)
Lynyrd Skynyrd – 1976.08.21 – Knebworth Fair, UK (SBD)
Lynyrd Skynyrd – 1977.07.02 – Oakland, CA (SBD)
MeatLoaf – 1978 – London and Toronto (FM)
Montrose – 1973 – The Alternate Montrose (SBD)
Mötley Crüe – 1983.12.01 – San Antonio, Texas (SBD)
Ozzy Osbourne – 1982.06.23 – Captured Live! Ivine, CA (FM)
Ozzy Osbourne – 1982.09.26.27 – The Ritz, New York City (SBD)
Paul McCartney – 2010.12.13 – Live At The Apollo, Harlem (SBD)
Paul McCartney – 2022.06.25 – Glastonbury Festival, UK (FM)
Police – 1979.03.29 – Live At My Father’s Place (FM)
Quicksilver Messenger Service – 1968.06.07 – Live at the Fillmore (SBD)
Rainbow – 1995.10.02 – Cirkus, Stockholm, Sweden (FM)
Randy Bachman + Fred Turner – 2011.09.24 – Winnipeg, Canada (FM)
REO Speedwagon – 1980.07.27 – Alpine Valley, East Troy, WI (FM)
Rolling Stones – 1976.08.21] – Knebworth, Hertfordshire, England (SBD)
Rolling Stones – 1978.06.14 – Passaic, NJ (SBD)
Rolling Stones – 1989.11.11 – Cotton Bowl, Dallas, TX CD1 (SBD)
Rolling Stones – 1989.11.11 – Cotton Bowl, Dallas, TX CD2 (SBD)
Rush – 1988.08.23 – Birmingham ’88 – Remaster Edition (SBD)
Scorpions – 1982.04.28 – St Austell, England (SBD)
Scorpions – 2005.08.29 – Tafnet Ice Arena, Kazan, Russia (SBD)
Steppenwolf – 1980.02.16 – Roslyn, NY (SBD)
Steve Miller Band – 1973.07.01 – Record Plant, Suasalito, CA (Pre-FM)
Stray Cats – 1982.07.31 – Stages Music Hall Chicago, IL (FM)
Stray Cats – 2003.07.05 – Fullerton, CA (SBD)
Styx – 1975-1976 – KBFH and Detroit MIFM (FM)
Styx – 1978.01.27 – Long Beach, CA (EX-AUD)
Suzi Quatro – 1975.03.25 – Sausalito, CA (FM)
Suzi Quatro – 1975.08.15] – Rimini, Italy (SBD)
The Band – 1976.07.17 – Washington, DC, KBFH (FM)
The Band – 2016 – 1970.1973.1976 – Transmission Impossible (FM)
The Beatles – 1967-1968 – The Alternate Sgt. Peppers Album (SBD)
The Beatles – 1969-01-30 – Apple Rooftop Concert (SBD)
The Beatles – 1969.01.30 – The Complete Rooftop Concert (SBD)
The Beatles – 2003 – The Great Lost Psychedelic Album (SBD)
The Cure – 1990.04.08 – Leipzig, Germany (FM)
The Highwaymen – 1992.04.13 – Aberdeen, Scotland (FM)
The Kinks – 1980.12.31 – New York, NY, A Complete One For The Road (FM)
The Kinks – 1987.03.08 – Chicago, IL (FM)
The Who – 1968.04.06 – Fillmore East (SBD)
Triumph – 1978.08.26 – Live At Canada Jam, Ontario (SBD)
Van Halen – 1974.1975 – Gazzaris Dance Contest, West Hollywood, CA (SBD)
Van Halen – 1975.02.14 – Gazzarri’s, West Hollywood, CA (SBD)
Van Halen – 1975.xx.xx – School’s Out Pasadena, CA (SBD)
Van Halen – 1978.1982.1994 – Transmission Impossible (FM)
Van Halen – 1998.07.24 – Pittsburgh, PA – The Lost Live Album (SBD)
Whitesnake – 1988.06.13 – Tokyo, Japan (SBD)
Wolfmother – 2009.09.19 – Sydney (FM)
Wolfmother – 2010.01.29 – Tonhalle, Munich, Germany (FM)

 

Computer, Computer - Linux, Server Information

Security images pruning

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Well, I have been procrastinating about this.  My security videos get saved on the linux security server, and are limited to a month or so.  Daily, those sql event images get combined into an .avi video and saved locally and sent via ftp to my main server.  They DO pile up, though, as evidenced by the image on the right.  1.2TB.  They have been saving since 12 Apr 2018, when I added that feature to the script that I wrote that created the video files from the sql images.  The reason I did that was that it made it easier to review and archive the security alerts.  Hand deleting all those directories would be a major pain in the ass.  Enter this command:  😉

[root@cap Cameras]# find -mtime +365 -exec rm -R {} \;

It took a short while to parse through all the directories, but, eventually it finished. I checked on things with du -h –max-depth=0. The max-depth argument will stop all the sub directories from printing to the screen.  The results are in the image below.  436GB.  That’s quite a bit of space saved.  Now, instead of directory saved images dating back to 2018, there is only one year.  While the find/rm command above is suitable to enter directly into a terminal and have it operate on the current directory, it is rather dangerous to use.  Far better to schedule a potentially dangerous command in the cron.  First step, is to create the command.  In order to do that, as root do: nano /sbin/shear , or the name you choose to use.  I chose shear.  Add this & save: find $1 -mtime +365 -exec rm -R {} \;  If you have sharp eyesight, you will notice that I inserted $1 after find.  This is a command variable.  Last part of creating the command will be to make it executable by root, and not even readable by other users.  Do this  as root to do that; chmod 700 /sbin/shear.  Of course, if you can’t use root directly on your system, then use sudo.  Now, you can directly use the command that you created as:

# shear /path/to/directory/you/wish/. (/sbin/ should be in your path. If you saved it elsewhere not in your path,  </path/shear>) 😉

Final step is to create a crontab entry to run it monthly or so.  crontab -e will allow you to edit your crontab,  Of course, you might have to do sudo crontab -e if you can’t become root.  If you need help with the syntax: cat /etc/crontab.  I also have the MAIL=root commented out, so as not to get emails filling up root’s email box.  Then, restart crond.  That’s it.  If anybody needs a review of crontab and how to use systemctl to restart crond, either reach out to me, or just add a comment, and I’ll create a little tutorial. 😉

Arcade, Arcade Update

Arcade Update 2.59-2.61

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Seems that I always forget one or two things when I roll out an update.  Update 2.58-2.59 was no exception.  I had wanted to make the update script automatically choose whether to run the external hard drive or console update paths.  Now, it does.  Along with one or two other minor things.  While I was working on that, I discovered that about 17 of the Visual Pinball tables did not properly display on the console. This problem didn’t occur on the ext. hard drive installation.  Probably due to the fact that the CPU and gfx on the console are Intel 2nd generation, and Windows 10 wasn’t fully supported until 3rd generation. So, I created a second games list, Games-Console that is only the tables that display on the console, and the Games list is the full VP games list.  An example of the way the VP tables that don’t properly display is on the left.  Totally unplayable.  Since all the tables properly display on my Elitebook laptop with NVIDIA gfx, I felt that the proper solution would be to keep them, so that’s why I created the Console games list. That all being said, I must again remind everybody that updates HAVE to be applied in numerical order, or you shall probably break things.  If in doubt, check your version.

Update 2.59-2.61 is HERE.

Previous update blog posts are below:

Update 2.58-2.59 is HERE.

Update 2.56-2.58 is HERE.

FOUR updates (2.40-2.46, 2.46-2.48, 2.48-2.51, and 2.51-2.56) are HERE.

Bit of news here, in closing:  JRod has ordered a spinner for adding to the Tankstick for games like Tempest, Arkanoid, and many others.  I shall let you all know how it goes….

 

 

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