We normally meet every second Tuesday of the month for talks and demonstrations from 7:00pm onwards at BCB Radio in February, May, August and November and online in other months.
Why not come along to a meeting?
Until the start of the pandemic in 2020, some of us used to create IT Stuff for BCB Radio (106.6 FM). Shi has looked back on this for us.
September 13 2022 Home Assistant, Nextcloud, cross-platform programs, kdialog
Brian said that, though he had used Node_RED to control the automation of thermostats (see November 2021 BradLUG meeting), this had proved unreliable because Node-RED kept rebooting at random times; he had discovered that this was probably linked to unreliable dependencies.
August 9 2022 Conda, alias Anaconda, VPN, HD TODAY
As BCB was closed, Bernard, David and John gathered at Wetherspoons where, by combining battery resources, they were able to hold an online meeting with Brian, Nick and John W.
Nick gave a presentation on Conda which was originally known as Anaconda and developed for use with Python/R but is now in more general scientific computing use. It is essentially a configuration manager; it does not replace anything else but allows you to manage different packages and versions of software in different environments without conflicts. It ensures reproducibility which is important for researchers when they wish to share findings.
July 12 2022 Asterisk, audio input, black and lint, editors
Brian had been able to set up Asterisk and knew that he could make outgoing calls. He demonstrated that his mobile showed up under ‘mobile shell devices,’ he was successful in calling Nick’s ’phone and the quality was all right at Brian’s end. However, when Nick tried to call him, he got Brian’s mobile voicemail. John mentioned that, in setting up some new cordless ’phones at home, he had found his provider began its answerphone message after four rings. He suggested the problem might be his provider’s settings.
June 14 2022 ESP32-Cam, Asterisk and Raspberry Pi
David showed how far he had got using his 3D printer to create the ESP32-Cam Pan&Tilt as described in the Random Nerd Tutorials which he had first mentioned at the January meeting. He demonstrated the USB plug he had made working as intended.
May 10 2022 BASH, Firefox Snap, Star tracker, digiKam, Bokeh
Our second attempt at a hybrid meeting was less successful than our first with problems with both video and audio.
Darren had been exploring Bash and in particular the various options for using brackets; there is a good article on Linux.com exploring the various options.
April 20 2022 Shi looks back on IT Stuff
Shi writes:
It has been great creating the shows with the other Stuffers (heh) who have become some of my most favouritest peeps.
Firstly, wow — we managed seven years worth of consistent (lol) unadulterated tech comedy opinion-based content, about 87 or more episodes in total.
April 12 2022 Magic-Wormhole, zram, lithium batteries and IT Stuff
We met for the first time in two years at Bradford Community Broadcasting and also had our first hybrid meeting with Brian and John W online.
Brian asked a question about searching for someone when you have their last address but are not sure whether they are still there which generated a number of suggestions, none of which appeared conclusive.
March 8 2022 NordVPN, Random forest, stepper motor, web server scripting, recycling
Brian said he had gone back to using a PBX as the interface for cordless ’phones and his mobile. The mobile connects via Bluetooth but the audio quality is poor.
He had discovered that the Raspberry Pi 2 is the minimum on which you can use NordVPN with which he is using the Raspberry Pi as a gateway.
February 8 2022 tailscale, adsbexchange.com, TensorFlow, stepper motors
Brian shared a problem he was having with tailscale which uses WireGuard; he had tried to transmit out to a network but it did not work. In Spain he can only watch the BBC on his computer but he can use Vivaldi to cast his desktop to the TV; in this way, he can log in to the BBC and then cast the programme to the TV.
January 11 2022 Korganizer, backups, Konqueror, Jellyfin, ad-silence, Thingyverse
Darren had been having problems with Kontact and was unable to use the Calendar; John suggested he locate the Korganizer std.ics file which can be opened in other calendar programs. John had done something similar when there were problems some years ago with Kontact.
John went on to share a script for backing up mysql/mariadb databases:
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