Sunday, May 18, 2014

Voicecommand Update and Fix for Google Speech v2.0

Sorry it took so long for this. Google's deprecation of the Speech v1.0 api came at the worst possible time for me as it was right before I started driving across the country.

I didn't get to fix it yesterday when I got into San Francisco either because I ended up going to Maker Faire and then hung out at a bar with all the Hackaday people. I met the guy who invented sudo and figured out I have the same watch as Mike Szczys.

Anyways, I've fixed voicecommand to work again and I fixed a couple of small bugs, including one in the install script which didn't copy the voicecommand config properly.

To get the fix, just run the update script (or reinstall if you are having config file issues).
I detailed how to update here:
http://stevenhickson.blogspot.com/2013/06/installing-and-updating-piauisuite-and.html

Here's a picture from Maker Faire for your trouble!



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Monday, May 5, 2014

RPi Video Looper 2.0

I have a brand new version of the Raspberry Pi Videolooper that solves a lot of the common issues I'm emailed about. Hopefully this solves problems for a lot of you. You can download the new image here:

https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=e0f17bd2b1ffe81!411&authkey=!AGW37ozZuaeyjDw&ithint=file%2czip

MIRROR: https://mega.co.nz/#!JBcDxLhQ!z41lixcpCS0-zvF2X9SkX-T98Gj5I4m3QIFjXKiZ5p4


For help you can post on the Raspberry Pi subreddit (probably the best way to get fast help)

How to set up the looper

  1. Copy the above image to an SD card following these directions
  2. If you want to use USB, change usb=0 to usb=1 in looperconfig.txt on the SD card (It is in the boot partition which can be read by Windows and Mac).
  3. If you want to disable the looping autostart to make copying files easier, change autostart=1 to autostart=0 in looperconfig.txt
  4. If you aren't using a USB (NTFS) put your video files in the /home/pi/videos directory with SFTP or by turning autostart off. Otherwise, put your video files in a directory named videos on the root directory of your USB.
  5. Set your config options and plug it in!

Features

  • NEW: Has a config file in the boot directory (looperconfig.txt)
  • NEW: Has a autostart flag in the config file (autostart=0,autostart=1)
  • NEW: Has a USB flag in the config file (usb=0,usb=1), just set usb=1, then plug a USB (NTFS) with a videos folder on it and boot.
  • NEW: Updated all packages (no heartbleed vulnerability, new omxplayer version).
  • NEW: Only requires 4GB SD card and has a smaller zipped download file.
  • Supports all raspberry pi video types (mp4,avi,mkv,mp3,mov,mpg,flv,m4v)
  • Supports subtitles (just put the srt file in the same directory as the videos)
  • Reduces time between videos
  • Allows spaces and special characters in the filename
  • Allows pausing and skipping
  • Full screen with a black background and no flicker
  • SSH automatically enabled with user:pi and password:raspberry
  • Allows easy video conversion using ffmpeg (ffmpeg INFILE -sameq OUTFILE)
  • Has a default of HDMI audio output with one quick file change (replace -o hdmi with -o local in startvideos.sh).
  • Can support external HDDs and other directories easily with one quick file change (Change FILES=/home/pi/videos/ to FILES=/YOUR DIRECTORY/ in startvideos.sh)

Source code

The source code can be found on github here. 

This is perfect if you are working on a museum or school exhibit. Don't spend a lot of money and energy on a PC running windows and have problems like below (courtesy of the Atlanta Aquarium)!

If you are a museum or other educationally based program and need help, you can post on the Raspberry Pi subreddit (probably the best way to get fast help) or contact me by e-mail at help@stevenhickson.com

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