18th Feb

The slates start to come off

17th Feb

Looking for the waterpipe to the house

16th Feb

The scaffold goes up

15th Feb

Flower photo

14th Feb

Why can Scouts never cook pancakes? 

13th Feb

New kitchen units in  place

12th Feb

Orchids

11th Feb

A night visit to Waddecar

10th Feb

The view from our window this morning - a typical lakeland morning!

9th Feb

We had a lovely walk from the hotel to Far Sawrey where we had a drink and the returned via the ferry.

8th Feb

Away this weekend at the Hydro weekend, Cath in our room at the hotel.

7th Feb

An old pot

6th Feb

Sunset

5th Feb

Cath

4th Feb

No photo today I'm afraid but I did make a video of Luke. He's explaining why he would make a good hotel inspector.

3rd Feb

Luke mows the grass

2nd Feb

Dawn

1st Feb

At last - I'm home from work in the light.

Pi problems..

OK, last night everything was working, the PI was visible to itunes and music played through the TV speakers connected via HDMI.

Unfortunately I made one small change so that sound would come out of the 3.5mm jack and everything stopped. No amount of starting / rebooting or even changing the sound back to HDMI worked. Nothing was to be heard.

Anyway, this time I'm going to try again but using just a single source of information, http://mattshirley.com/adding-airplay-to-an-external-usb-audio-interface/

His approach certainly seems clearer than some of the others.

# Change to our home directory, install all the packages we need.

cd ~ apt-get install build-essential libssl-dev libcrypt-openssl-rsa-perl libao-dev libio-socket-inet6-perl libwww-perl avahi-utils pkg-config git emacs

sudo git clone https://github.com/albertz/shairport.git

cd shairport

sudo make

# Install Net::SDP Perl module 

sudo -s
perl -MCPAN -e 'install Net::SDP'

I decided not to bother with this bit as I don't have a USB soundcard
# Demote the onboard soundcard and allow USB soundcards to become default 

# Add 'options snd_bcm2835=-2' 

# Comment out line 'options snd-usb-audio index=-2' 

nano /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf 

# Copy the example init script 

cp shairport.init.sample /etc/init.d/shairport 
# Edit the init script to point to Shairport
# NAME=RecordPlayer
# DAEMON="/home/pi/shairport/shairport.pl"

nano /etc/init.d/shairport

sudo update-rc.d shairport defaults
sudo reboot

Let's see what results we get tonight.

31st Jan

A hole appears in the office wall! Making more room for the accounts dept. to move in.

Setting up the Raspberry Pi

Downloaded the latest image tonight, thought I'd list the changes I make to make things easier next time!

1. Install RDP so that I can remote control it.
Info on this from http://www.raspberrypiblog.com/2012/10/how-to-setup-remote-desktop-from.html
basically just run

sudo apt-get install xrdp

and then use mstsc to connect.
2. Get SSH running.

I did try to connect remotely using Putty and an SSH connection but it just didn't work. The command

sudo apt-get install ssh

was used to check that SSH was installed (it was) but it didn't seem to be running.

sudo /etc/init.d/ssh start

caused the service to start and

sudo update-rc.d ssh defaults

will make it start each time. I can now connect to the command line from windows.
3.Thought I'd give an actual application a go.

I found this post and this one or this one! about using the Raspberry Pi as an airplay receiver so here goes!
The Raspberry Pi is already working so step one is to install the shairport airplay emulator.

sudo apt-get install git libao-dev libssl-dev libcrypt-openssl-rsa-perl libio-socket-inet6-perl libwww-perl avahi-utils libmodule-build-perl

git clone https://github.com/njh/perl-net-sdp.git

git clone https://github.com/albertz/shairport.git

cd shairport
make

sudo -s 

perl -MCPAN -e 'install Net::SDP'

cp shairport.init.sample /etc/init.d/shairport



This will install the required bits and pieces, next this command will make sure that the system is compatible with ios6  git clone https://github.com/njh/perl-net-sdp.git perl-net-sdp cd perl-net-sdp perl Build.PL sudo ./Build sudo ./Build test sudo ./Build install cd ..then we can install the actual application,
git clone https://github.com/hendrikw82/shairport.git cd shairport make
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# Change to our home directory, install all the packages we need.
cd ~
apt-get install build-essential libssl-dev libcrypt-openssl-rsa-perl libao-dev libio-socket-inet6-perl libwww-perl avahi-utils pkg-config git emacs
git clone https://github.com/albertz/shairport.git
cd shairport
make
# Install Net::SDP Perl module
sudo -s
perl -MCPAN -e 'install Net::SDP'
# Demote the onboard soundcard and allow USB soundcards to become default
# Add 'options snd_bcm2835=-2'
# Comment out line 'options snd-usb-audio index=-2'
emacs /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf 
# Copy the example init script
cp shairport.init.sample /etc/init.d/shairport
# Edit the init script to point to Shairport
# NAME=RecordPlayer
# DAEMON="/home/pi/shairport/shairport.pl"
emacs /etc/init.d/shairport
update-rc.d shairport defaults
reboot

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30th Jan

More Pi - Try to get the Raspberry Pi to work. SSH connection fromlaptop to Pi up and running.

29th Jan

The Raspberry Pi is now connected to the TV in the play room. Might use it for something now?

28th Jan

William "helped" me build this model of a 4 stroke petrol engine tonight. I've challenged him to describe how it works by the end of the week!

27th Jan

Cath

26th Jan

More snow overnight but thaws expected today

25th Jan

Canada

24th Jan

A dog made of soap

23rd Jan

William

22nd Jan

Snow

21st Jan

Luke in the snow

20th Jan

William and Luke on the Berrys Walk