What Are You Doing Right Now
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Just realized y'all are on vacation today, lazy bums
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@MattSpeller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Just realized y'all are on vacation today, lazy bums
Lazy my butt,... er... well sorta..
No, Fixed a full breakfast,.. Bacon, Eggs, Biscuits and gravy. That done,.. I've hacked up an old Cell phone battery to a LI charger, Replaced some lamps in the truck, and just took the dash out.
This is preliminary to replacing the stock radio/6disk changer with a RPi and a SDR ... Also play to relocate the Kenwook d7100 and GPS antenna. Still working on routing and fabrication for a VHF/UHF antenna to use the fold over mast I have.
While I am at it,.. several dash lights are out, might flip them for LED replacements.
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@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Playing with Raspberry Pi's, video streaming and software defined radio (SDR)
Curious to know more about the arrangement... and what SDR you chose / why.
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@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Playing with Raspberry Pi's, video streaming and software defined radio (SDR)
Curious to know more about the arrangement... and what SDR you chose / why.
Ah, that's no magic at all. RTL-SDR with adrbox (dump1090 before) and a cheap DVB-T USB receiver. Pi-A (behind the touchscreen) is decoding ADS-B. Additionally, it acts as HTTP and VNC server. Pi-B grabs the VNC stream and does a little upscaling.
VNC is in use for a simple reason: I can catch any disconnects and restart the VNC client. That's way harder to accomplish with a browser. At least in the short amount of time I had to build this (roughly two days)
I'll post some instructions on my blog next week.
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@gjacobse As for why adrbox: Great interface, good performance. Backend is the same between dump1090 and adrbox: rtlsdr.
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@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Playing with Raspberry Pi's, video streaming and software defined radio (SDR)
Curious to know more about the arrangement... and what SDR you chose / why.
Ah, that's no magic at all. RTL-SDR with adrbox (dump1090 before) and a cheap DVB-T USB receiver. Pi-A (behind the touchscreen) is decoding ADS-B. Additionally, it acts as HTTP and VNC server. Pi-B grabs the VNC stream and does a little upscaling.
VNC is in use for a simple reason: I can catch any disconnects and restart the VNC client. That's way harder to accomplish with a browser. At least in the short amount of time I had to build this (roughly two days)
I'll post some instructions on my blog next week.
Awesome - look forward to it. Now,.. back to ripping the truck apart (there are only four more screws....
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@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Playing with Raspberry Pi's, video streaming and software defined radio (SDR)
Curious to know more about the arrangement... and what SDR you chose / why.
Ah, that's no magic at all. RTL-SDR with adrbox (dump1090 before) and a cheap DVB-T USB receiver. Pi-A (behind the touchscreen) is decoding ADS-B. Additionally, it acts as HTTP and VNC server. Pi-B grabs the VNC stream and does a little upscaling.
VNC is in use for a simple reason: I can catch any disconnects and restart the VNC client. That's way harder to accomplish with a browser. At least in the short amount of time I had to build this (roughly two days)
I'll post some instructions on my blog next week.
Awesome - look forward to it. Now,.. back to ripping the truck apart (there are only four more screws....
We need pictures
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@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Playing with Raspberry Pi's, video streaming and software defined radio (SDR)
Curious to know more about the arrangement... and what SDR you chose / why.
Ah, that's no magic at all. RTL-SDR with adrbox (dump1090 before) and a cheap DVB-T USB receiver. Pi-A (behind the touchscreen) is decoding ADS-B. Additionally, it acts as HTTP and VNC server. Pi-B grabs the VNC stream and does a little upscaling.
VNC is in use for a simple reason: I can catch any disconnects and restart the VNC client. That's way harder to accomplish with a browser. At least in the short amount of time I had to build this (roughly two days)
I'll post some instructions on my blog next week.
Awesome - look forward to it. Now,.. back to ripping the truck apart (there are only four more screws....
A few more pics, also showing the new Frontend. Sorry about the quality, just shot them with my mobile.
Pi behind touchscreen
Adsbox on Pi
Stream on TV
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noticed this in my Instagram feed.
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@JaredBusch said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
noticed this in my Instagram feed.
Man @scottalanmiller is way younger than I remember
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Finally home!
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Happy Monday even though it's not a Monday, day after a long weekend.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Finally home!
if you call your temporary living place for 3-4 months home.
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@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Finally home!
if you call your temporary living place for 3-4 months home.
Closest thing that I can ever get to one.
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I thought this was a pretty good piece of advice. Take what you will from it:
"Don't rely on motivation for anything. It is fleeting and unreliable. Discipline, however, is unyielding. Force yourself to follow through. Things are going to come up in life that get in the way of your goals but that's no reason to let them stop you completely."
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What if you are not motivated to be disciplined?
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
What if you are not motivated to be disciplined?
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Yea,.. that is an issue for many,...
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Here's the Dash bezel off and unplugged.
Radio out,.. just plugged it back in to the system.
And despite what @MattSpeller will say,.. there were no extra parts left over.
This was just 'learning'... need to do some researching now, to find all the replacement indicator bulbs and such. Also planning to add a hard wired USB 1aH and 2aH jack to eliminate the auto adapter in now. Might even go so far as to go ahead and hard wire the 120v Inverter as well.... I mean - why not since I have it all apart.
btw: this is for @thwr
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@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Here's the Dash bezel off and unplugged.
Radio out,.. just plugged it back in to the system.
And despite what @MattSpeller will say,.. there were no extra parts left over.
This was just 'learning'... need to do some researching now, to find all the replacement indicator bulbs and such. Also planning to add a hard wired USB 1aH and 2aH jack to eliminate the auto adapter in now. Might even go so far as to go ahead and hard wire the 120v Inverter as well.... I mean - why not since I have it all apart.
Why is your steering wheel completely upside down?
Also what prompted you to disassemble the dash?
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@DustinB3403 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@gjacobse said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Here's the Dash bezel off and unplugged.
Radio out,.. just plugged it back in to the system.
And despite what @MattSpeller will say,.. there were no extra parts left over.
This was just 'learning'... need to do some researching now, to find all the replacement indicator bulbs and such. Also planning to add a hard wired USB 1aH and 2aH jack to eliminate the auto adapter in now. Might even go so far as to go ahead and hard wire the 120v Inverter as well.... I mean - why not since I have it all apart.
Why is your steering wheel completely upside down?
Also what prompted you to disassemble the dash?
LOL.. Steering wheel is 'upside down' as the wheels are turned one direction. Both the front marker lights were out and access to them is through the wheel well.
As for what prompted the disassemble ; Planning to replace the factory radio with a Raspberry Pi and SDR-radio ( in time) I also have a number of indicator lights that need to be replaced. I'm also looking to relocated the control head for the Kenwood d-700 radio
http://www.waterfunrental.com/K0SWI/REVIEW/KW/KW_D700A/TM-D700A_LG.gif
