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Raspberry Pi pains of the past
Posted on May 6, 2021 Leave a Comment
Don’t get me wrong, I love my Raspberry Pi’s and I have spent a lot of time on both successful and less successful projects. A lot has happened since 2012 when they first came out, more powerful hardware and much better software support. In the later years I have done everything from home automation projects, […]
Install Protocol Buffers (protobuf) on Windows
Posted on May 17, 2020 Leave a Comment
I’m currently converting a few Google App Engine projects from Python 2.7 to Python 3. This includes a bunch of changes to the the code since Google is moving away from the built in Google App Engine classes. During the first few steps of converting the app you start changing out the dependencies still on […]
Pi: BtSync satellite – spin down hard drive
Posted on April 10, 2016 Leave a Comment
My BitTorrent satellite has finally synced my 6tb of data over the local network. The initial sync took several days but so far it seems to pretty quick picking up new files and syncing them. Before I move it to my office I want to make sure I get some peace and quite in the […]
Pi: Python script for BtSync status LCD
Posted on April 6, 2016 Leave a Comment
Adding and LCD display to a Pi project can make it so much easier to use. Displaying current IP address and status of some task that you only have to interact with when something went wrong. In this example we have the 20×4 (20 characters x 4 lines) LCD status display of my BtSync Satellite that […]
Pi: Geo-location backup with BtSync
Posted on April 3, 2016 2 Comments
Building a geo-location backup for your NAS is a good idea! To spread the risk over two or more locations increases your backup value a lot. Most people confuse redundancy and backup. If you only have a USB-disk backup of your NAS it only protects you against hardware failure. If there is a fire or […]
Python: Remove querystring from URL
Posted on February 1, 2014 3 Comments
Needed to clean an URL from it’s querystring in Python. Found a lot of examples telling me to use urlparse and then put all the bits and pieces back together. An easier and more efficient way is this: [py]url = ‘http://www.hackviking.com/?var=value’ url = url[:url.find(‘?’)][/py] url now reads ‘http://www.hackviking.com/’
Google Picasa API Python: Developers Guide
Posted on October 30, 2013 Leave a Comment
Before you ask… Yes I struggled with the title of this post, but give me a break it’s 4:30 am here! 🙂 I’m currently developing in python for Google App Engine and are using the Picasa API. I found this great guide from Google with exampels: https://developers.google.com/picasa-web/docs/1.0/developers_guide_python It’s far from complete but the examples pushes me in […]
Python: Get user info after oauth
Posted on October 21, 2013 6 Comments
Building webapps with Google APIs are pretty straight forward for the most part. Specially when using the Google API Client Libraries! But if you want to accomplish something that are outside of all the nice tutorials that Google supply us with it get’s trickier! Being a C# programmer for many years I have noticed that […]
Hackviking aka Kristofer Källsbo 