Plex Client on RPi w/ Flirc IR & Composite for CRT in 2023

Recently I decided to get a Plex client going on my CRT Sony television for the full retro experience using the original remote control, which meant I had to do some research and figure out exactly how all this would work in 2023, 20 years after it wasn’t very common. You’ll need a few things to get started, below are some affiliate links to Amazon Canada, and Amazon USA to source some products should you need them....

October 19, 2023 · 7 min · 1396 words · Matt G

My poor mans pork bulgogi recipe

If you’re like me, you love korean food. The flavours, the spice, and usually pretty healthy. The other night I decided to try and make a quasi-beef-bulgogi using pork chops with the ingredients I happened to have on hand and it turned out pretty great. I’ve never actually had pork bulgogi, but the Internet tells me it’s a thing so I ran with it. I thought I’d document it for others that want to make a quick, easy dish that tastes great....

March 27, 2023 · 2 min · 391 words · Matt G

Setting up yt_dlp w/ Qnap & Plex for Youtube Download

I’ve been wanting to get some youtube series onto my plex server for a while for archival purposes, and, cause, fuck ads amirite? I pieced together some various scripts I found to mostly automate the process on my QNAP nas, that also houses my Plex server. Most of everything I found was for youtube-dl which doesn’t appear to work as well as the fork yt-dl so I opted to use that for this....

March 23, 2023 · 4 min · 831 words · Matt G

Pwnagotchi 1.6.2 with Waveshare V3 + MacOS Macbook Host

If you saw the other article I posted today you’ll see I got Pwnagotchi working on my Raspberry Pi 3. This is how to set it up properly on a PiZero WH using a Waveshare V3 e-ink screen. How to Get’r running get the image from here extract $ 7z e pwnagotchi-raspios-lite-1.6.2.7z burn o microsd where /dev/sdd is your microsd card. $ sudo dd if=pwnagotchi-raspios-lite-1.6.2.img of=/dev/sdd bs=1M now you wanna edit your config file before unmounting...

March 23, 2023 · 6 min · 1201 words · Matt G

Pwnagotchi on a Raspberry Pi 3 with Adafruit 3.5 LCD

The other day I stumbled across Pwnagotchi and had to give it a try. I didn’t have a Pi Zero WH but, I did have a Pi3 with 3.5" LCD, so I wanted to see if I could get it all working as a test platform before trying to find the PIZero. This isn’t really supported, but it does seem to work for testing purposes anyway so I thought I’d put this up for anyone else who wants to try....

March 22, 2023 · 3 min · 434 words · Matt G