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Add AirPlay to Your Classic Stereo with an Old Apple TV – TidBITS

Posted by jpluimers on 2022/09/19

[Wayback/Archive.is] Add AirPlay to Your Classic Stereo with an Old Apple TV – TidBITS which has a good description including a list of needed parts:

  • Second- or third-generation Apple TV
  • Power cable
  • TOSLINK Digital-to-Analog (D/A) Converter
  • Pair of RCA Cables

These are only needed the first time to setup the Apple TV 2nd or 3rd generation:

  • HDMI Cable
  • Remote

Note that the Apple TV 4th generation or Apple TV 4K devices won’t work: they lack a TOSLINK interface.

You can work around this by using an HDMI audio extractor [Wayback/Archive.is]. Some can provide S/PDIF / TOSLINK output, others can directly do line out (so you do not need the above TOSLINK D/A converter):

Usually the Apple TV 2nd or 3rd generation solution is way cheaper, as they go for very little money on second hand sites.

–jeroen

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Some links on Gigabyte GA-Z77-DS3H mainboards

Posted by jpluimers on 2022/09/05

The board supports mSATA which is an older standard so it is harder to get media for it. I keep mixing up mSATA and M.2 all the time, so:

The Gigabyte GA-Z77-DS3H manuals (see below) note “The mSATA connector conforms to SATA 3Gb/s standard and can connect to a single solid-state drive.”

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Na migratie van XS4ALL naar KPN zijn al je telefoon-doorschakelingen weg: hoe dit te herstellen (spoiler: de on-line aanwijzingen kloppen niet)

Posted by jpluimers on 2022/09/02

In het kader van “kunnen dingen bij ons nooit eens normaal gaan?” het korte antwoord: nee.

Voorbeeld:

Voor de migratie van XS4ALL naar KPN hadden diverse telefoondoorschakelingen in gebruik (met name vertraagd doorschakelen: individuele nummers in ons huishouden gingen vertraagd door naar de bijbehorende mobiele nummers).

Na de migratie waren die allemaal weg. Het duurde even voor we daarachter waren omdat sinds de corona-periode vrijwel altijd iemand thuis is.

Kort en goed: we kamen er dus achter toen er niemand thuis was en we een opmerking kregen onbereikbaar te zijn (door iemand die ons mobiele nummer niet had).

Herstellen was ingewikkelder dan bedacht, want als je deze voor de hand liggende stappen van XS4ALL en KPN volgt kom je met een kluitje in het riet terecht:

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Posted in Cable TV/Radio, Development, Hardware, Hardware Development, Hardware Interfacing, Home Audio/Video, Power User, Telephony, VoIP | Leave a Comment »

Since about 5 months now, there has been a new Chocolatey package maintainer for OpenVPN

Posted by jpluimers on 2022/08/26

Last winter, I discovered that the OpenVPN version on Chocolatey was really old: it had not been updated since 2019.

Most  Chocolatey maintainers are volunteers and sometimes the burden can become too large. Back then the maintainer was [Wayback/Archive] Chocolatey Software | wget, but luckily [Wayback/Archive] Chocolatey Software | dgalbraith has stepped in and in March 2022 bumped the version from [Wayback/Archive] Chocolatey Software | OpenVPN 2.4.7 to [Wayback/Archive] Chocolatey Software | OpenVPN – Open Source SSL VPN Solution 2.5.4 and kept maintaining (currently there is [Wayback/Archive] Chocolatey Software | OpenVPN – Open Source SSL VPN Solution 2.5.7).

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Posted in *nix, *nix-tools, Chocolatey, Hardware, Network-and-equipment, OpenVPN, Power User, ssh/sshd, VPN, Windows | Leave a Comment »

FRITZ!Box 7490/7390 comparisions (via: Vergleich AVM FRITZ!Box 7490 und FRITZ!Box 7390 – YouTube)

Posted by jpluimers on 2022/08/12

Not sure why WordPress.com failed to post this on 20140525, so I put it in the scheduler again. In the end I got a Fritz!Box 7490 and though the 

In 2013, [Wayback] Fritz!Box replaced the 7390 top model with the 7490 and I [Wayback] might get get soon when ADSL (which still has a Fritz!Box 7240 attached) is upgraded to fiber.

So here are some differences partially from the English FRITZ!Box and German FRITZ!Box Wikipedia page between the [Wayback] Fritz!Box 7390 and [Wayback] Fritz!Box 7490, partially from the below video:

About cooling: according to the video both run the same temperature, either because the air cooling of the 7490 is better. I’m wondering if that is the same when running inside a closet.

[Wayback/Archive.is] HardwareInfo.nl has a Fritz!Box 7490 review that indicates 802.11ac and USB3 might not be as fast as you’d hope.

Reading the [Wayback/Archive.is] Amazon.de 7490 reviews, I might just ask xs4all to get me a 7390, not a 7490.

–jeroen

via: Vergleich AVM FRITZ!Box 7490 und FRITZ!Box 7390 – YouTube.

PS: I need to research [WaybackUSB over LAN in more detail, especially the [Waybackopen source project USB IP.

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In some countries @archiveis redirect their domains using http-302 which can have trouble with multi-WAN

Posted by jpluimers on 2022/08/12

From [Wayback Archive.is blog — Why has the URL “archive-li” changed to…:

Why has the URL “archive-li” changed to “archive-ph”, and will this affect saved bookmarks at any time in the future?

Anonymous

This is temporary and only for some countries. All 7 domains work, so you do not need to change the bookmarks.

In The Netherlands all Archive Today domains redirect to archive.ph using a HTTP 302 redirect.

This caused trouble at my home location, but not at my brother, so I searched for local issues.

In the end, it was because I have dual WAN as network load balancing at home.

TL;DR

Modifying the routing table so traffic for 54.37.18.234 goes to WAN1 was my solution.

Finding the destination address

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Fritzbox 7490 ISDN landline and intenral ISDN S0 bus links

Posted by jpluimers on 2022/08/08

Somehow WordPress.com failed to post it on the scheduled date 20150331, not sure why.

Though ISDN has been phased out in The Netherlands as and almost phased out in Germany, you can still use end user Terminal Equipment on the internal S-bus.

Since scheduling the post for 2015, the same information as the original diagram below appeared in text form on Wikipedia and there it also adds TAE connector information: Fritz!Box: Belegung der kombinierten DSL-Telefon-Buchse – Wikipedia

Die Anschlussbelegung der Kombibuchse ist wie folgt:[44]

  • Pin 1: ISDN 1a
  • Pin 2: ISDN 1b
  • Pin 3: analog La
  • Pin 4: DSL
  • Pin 5: DSL
  • Pin 6: analog Lb
  • Pin 7: ISDN 2a
  • Pin 8: ISDN 2b

Der RJ-45-Stecker am grauen DSL-Zweig des Y-Kombikabels zeigt folgende Belegung:[44]

  • Pin 4: DSL
  • Pin 5: DSL

Die übrigen Pins sind unbenutzt.

Am schwarzen Telefonzweig ist der RJ-45-Stecker folgendermaßen belegt:

  • Pin 1: analog La
  • Pin 2: frei
  • Pin 3: ISDN 2a
  • Pin 4: ISDN 1a
  • Pin 5: ISDN 1b
  • Pin 6: ISDN 2b
  • Pin 7: frei
  • Pin 8: analog Lb

Somit ist ein direkter Anschluss an ISDN möglich, für analoge Anschlüsse liegt für Deutschland ein Adapter auf TAE bei:

  • Pin 1 RJ-Buchse auf Pin 1 TAE
  • Pin 8 RJ-Buchse auf Pin 2 TAE

Ein normales Kabel mit TAE-Stecker und sechspoligem RJ-Stecker, wie es für den Anschluss analoger Telefone an eine TAE-Dose verwendet wird, funktioniert nicht.

Bei entbündelten Anschlüssen (ohne analoges oder ISDN-Telefon) kann ein direktes Kabel verwendet werden.

Das Kabel für deutsche Anschlüsse:

  • Pin 4 RJ-Stecker auf Pin 1 TAE
  • Pin 5 RJ-Stecker auf Pin 2 TAE

Original article

Some links:

–jeroen

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Fritz!box 7590 interface extremely slow : fritzbox

Posted by jpluimers on 2022/08/05

I tried the solution in [Wayback/Archive.is] Fritz!box 7590 interface extremely slow : fritzbox (remove the some 30-40 unused machines from the network overview), but it didn’t matter: since Fritz!OS 7.x, the Fritz!Box 7490 UI is just very very slow: each page takes 10+ seconds to load.

Hopefully I can get rid of these and move to pfSense based hardware eventually.

–jeroen

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Some notes on Input Director and alternatives: what about multiple platforms and mixing local plus remote access?

Posted by jpluimers on 2022/07/29

More than 10 years ago, I wrote about 7 screens; 3 computers; 1 keyboard/mouse to direct them all: Input Director and started with

At home, I have 7 screens on 3 computers on the same desk. That sounds like a clutter, but all these keyboards and mice hooked up to them add even more clutter. Until I found out about Input Direct…

In the mean time, I’ve mainly used a Mac with MacOS as a front-end to virtually logon to remote machines using both the internal display and one or two external monitors.

Especially when doing video (think Covid-19 and especially on-line meetings!) in addition to software development work, this is far from ideal.

So here are some things on my list of potential enhancements to this situation:

–jeroen

 

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Some Pi-KVM v3 notes

Posted by jpluimers on 2022/07/25

Last year, I wrote about Low cost remote IP KVM and control, is it possible?, mentioned [Wayback/Archive.is] Pi-KVM – Open and cheap DIY IP-KVM on Raspberry Pi and pledged for the [Wayback – OpenSSH 8.0 release notes/Archive.is] Pi-KVM v3 kickstarter project.

From their updates a few notes and a few of my own on PoE, HDMI/VGA, video passthrough, and a short of shopping list.

First the entries from the PiKVM Kickstarter updates::

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