Ian Chilton ichilton

Using a Gigabyte BXBT-1900 as an HTPC

Gigabyte mini PC with Intel Baytrail J1900 Celeron.

NOTE: I do not endorse the use of this machine as an HTPC. It's way too underpowered for that. Over time, I have found that a non-mobile i5 with 4 cores is the absolute minimum hardware required for an HTPC.

4 core CPU, but weak GPU. Old tech released in 2014, optimized for Windows 8.

Known for locking up without warning. That condition supposed to have been fixed by BIOS F8 (03/02/2016).

Ansible Vault Environment Variable

Per http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/playbooks_vault.html you can set an environment variable to use a password file for vault access. We can use this to create an environment variable to hold the password.

Password Script

Copy vault-env from this project to ~/bin. Then add this to your ~/.bashrc:

export ANSIBLE_VAULT_PASSWORD_FILE=~/bin/vault-env

Common Options

-#, --progress-bar Make curl display a simple progress bar instead of the more informational standard meter.

-b, --cookie <name=data> Supply cookie with request. If no =, then specifies the cookie file to use (see -c).

-c, --cookie-jar <file name> File to save response cookies to.

	# Disable Commercial Repo
	sed -i "s/^deb/\#deb/" /etc/apt/sources.list.d/pve-enterprise.list
	apt-get update

	# Add PVE Community Repo
	echo "deb http://download.proxmox.com/debian/pve $(grep "VERSION=" /etc/os-release \| sed -n 's/.(\(.\)).*/\1/p') pve-no-subscription" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/pve-no-enterprise.list
	apt-get update

	# Remove nag
	echo "DPkg::Post-Invoke { \"dpkg -V proxmox-widget-toolkit \| grep -q '/proxmoxlib\.js$'; if [ \$? -eq 1 ]; then { echo 'Removing subscription nag from UI...'; sed -i '/data.status/{s/\!//;s/Active/NoMoreNagging/}' /usr/share/javascript/proxmox-widget-toolkit/proxmoxlib.js; }; fi\"; };" > /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/no-nag-script

	if
	# Tests for "Mailing Lists"
	anyof(
	header :is "X-ME-VSCategory" "community:mailing-list",
	header :contains "X-Mailer" "Sympa",
	exists [
	"List-Id",
	"List-Help",
	"List-Subscribe",
	"List-Unsubscribe",

	#!/bin/bash

	DIST=${1?no distribution specified}
	ARCH=${2:amd64}

	set -e -x

	NAME=debian-${DIST}-${ARCH}
	debootstrap --no-check-gpg "--arch=$ARCH" "$DIST" "$NAME" http://archive.debian.org/debian
	tar -C "$NAME" -c . \| docker import - "$USER/$NAME"

	account default
	host mail.messagingengine.com
	port 587
	protocol smtp
	auth on
	from [email protected]
	user [email protected]
	password topsecretpassword!
	tls on
	tls_nocertcheck

	#include <PubSubClient.h>
	#include <ESP8266WiFi.h>

	const char* ssid = ".................";
	const char* password = "................";

	char* topic = "esp8266_arduino_out";
	char* server = "iot.eclipse.org";

	/*
	Basic Wicked Device WildFire MQTT example

	- connects to an MQTT server
	- publishes "hello world" to the topic defined in OUTTOPIC
	- subscribes to the topic defined in INTOPIC and prints any messages received
	*/

	#include <WildFire_CC3000.h>
	#include <WildFire.h>