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Infrared and LIRC

*Beware: These instructions have been cobbled together from all of the sources I found that got my specific unit working. I can verify it works on a Pi 3B running the latest OS as of summer 2019. Everyone's hardware and system will be a bit different so your mileage may vary. Before you go crazy trying to debug issues sending a signal, grab an existing lirc config for any remote and use the lirc CLI to send a signal out and verify your hardware is sending the signal by viewing the IR LED through a front-facing smartphone camera (almost all smartphone front cameras - even new iPhones - will not filter out IR light and you should see the LED flash when sending a signal). If you see your hardware is sending a signal and/or you can see that the IR input is seeing some signal, then you know your setup works and the issue may be that the remote you're trying to learn simply won't work with LIRC. I know for a fact that many Comcast/Xfinity cable remotes are actually RF devices and need to have

Restic backup application - commands cheatsheet

Installation & config

add Retic repo
yum install restic

add a Restic credential file to root

vim /root/.restic

FFMpeg to Icecast2 Streaming Samples

Examples usage of various codecs with FFMpeg.

Samples

flac.sh : An Icecast Source Client
- for Windows (Cygwin is required)
- and macOS (brew install ffmpeg)
another_examples.sh : Samples
FFMpeg can push to Icecast2 in various formats: Opus/Vorbis/AAC/MP3

Open Powershell as an administrator

Run

Get-ItemProperty HKLM:\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Enum\HID\*\*\Device` Parameters FlipFlopWheel -EA 0 | ForEach-Object { Set-ItemProperty $_.PSPath FlipFlopWheel 1 }

Verify that all mice devices have had their FlipFlopWheel attributes set to 1

Get-ItemProperty HKLM:\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Enum\HID\*\*\Device` Parameters FlipFlopWheel -EA 0

Reboot

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	# Install Homebrew if you don't already have it: https://brew.sh

	# install nano from homebrew
	brew install nano nanorc

	# update your nanorc file
	echo 'include "'"$(brew --cellar nano)"'//share/nano/.nanorc"' >> ~/.nanorc

	# close and re-open your terminal and you'll have syntax highlighting