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Adventures in ESP8266 land (1/n)

Given Blue Opal’s data network is linked to a ShipModul that beacons the data on a wireless network, I felt like it would be kind of neat to build my own data logger that can log all the data that

Driving a PiHut Christmas Tree

The default program suggested for the PiHut Christmas Tree makes the lights flash rapidly, all at once. This was headache inducing, so I modded the code to provide me with something a bit more relaxing. My Pi has trouble setting

Stripping out audio tracks from MKV files

I have some MKV files where the default audio track is non-English, though there is an English audio track in the file. Some research led me to MKVMerge, part of the MKVToolNix collection. A bit more research led me to some Python2 code that’s able to identify the tracks in the file, apply a filter, and instruct mkvmerge to write out a new file with just the chosen language tracks and subtitles.