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It appears that I was quite good at documenting my work on the music player, so I’m up and running again now.

Previously I’ve used an old USB webcam (actually a PlayStation eyeToy Camera) as the scanner and it has worked fine. However I wanted something different in the long run, so yesterday I bought a camera module for the Raspberry Pi.

The main thing I’m doing tonight, apart from getting back to where I were, is to test whether this particular camera works or not. So far it has not been plug and play but maybe it was foolish of me to expect that. As I’m writing this I’m doing a apt-get update and apt-get upgrade and then I’ll have to do some configuration in raspi-config.

Also, I’m starting to get reaaaaaaally tired so I’ll probably call it a night pretty soon. I blame daylight savings time.

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Linn and I finished watching Stranger Things Seasons 2 and 3 yesterday and since we don’t have any other show queued up, now seems like a good time to resume my work on a music player for the kids.

Right now I’m mostly trying to figure out how far I got the last time I worked on it.

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@tiffany

I’m just raising my hand and saying that I’m very interested in whatever you talk about in regards to home automation. That stuff is always interesting.

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@sirshannon Well, I don’t own one. Yet(?)

But the series 5 is the model so far that’s most likely to get me to buy one. The always on display takes care of the single most annoying thing about the previous ones, and one of the things that Pebble really got right, and the fact that I don’t have to pay for a band that I won’t use is another great feature.

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@Gabz Can you be a bit more specific?

I’m not going to try to convince you that you are wrong, I’m just curious because Hello Internet is my favourite podcast (along with Grey’s other podcast Cortex) .

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Two weeks ago I was away on a work trip and I decided to try to capture footage to potentially make a vlog out of. Here’s some lessons I learned.

So no, there won’t be a finished vlog this time but is was fun to try.

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@ronguest Then that’s not exactly the right solution now, but your post gave me an idea. I seem to recall FreeNAS being a software based NAS, and there are probably other similar products as well. Maybe one of those has a photo sharing feature.

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@ronguest That sounds interesting, but am I right in assuming it’s for the Synology NAS only? I currently don’t use a NAS (I have an old Drobo gathering dust on a shelf) and I was hoping to solve this with either my Linode or an always on MacMini.

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I need your help finding a self-hosted alternative to iCloud photo sharing

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I’m looking for a self-hosted alternative to iCloud photo sharing for private photo sharing with the family, and I need your help finding it.

Here’s what’s great about iCloud sharing:

The main problem is that it is exclusive to the Apple ecosystem. That excludes part of the family. If I’m going to change things up it would also be nice if the new solution was hosted on a server controlled by me.

So, a self-hosted alternative to iCloud photo sharing, with apps for viewing on both iOS and Android. Any recommendations are much appreciated.

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@Cassinato I recommend Overcast and Castro. Overcast is my favourite, but for I while I did use Castro and really liked it because of its queue feature.

Since you don’t listen to that many shows I’d say Overcast is the best way to go.

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