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October 4, 2016November 3, 2018 by Ray - 26 Comments

Xtream Codes IPTV Panel Review – Part 2: Movie Data Editing, Security, Resellers, Users and Pricing Management

Dear readers, after part 1 of Xtream Codes Panel v.2.2.0 EVO review, here is part 2. I tried hard to get all in two parts, but “to be exhaustive” there will also have to be a part 3… Movie Editing Section As we can see, it’s only possible to assign a movie into a single category, a SELECT BOUQUET Option under the Category would be more then useful. So while Movie Editor Section is useful right now, it still needs improvement. Also taking each movie by hand for editing, after, for example, a Main server crash or changing the Main, is really something, a waste of time. Some of the issues / possible improvements include: No mass edit of movies to bouquets If changing the category of a movie, I found no working method to change in a bulk.. Even if I tried to delete the “content” of a bouquet, […]

October 3, 2016October 3, 2016 by Jean-Luc Aufranc (CNXSoft) - 1 Comment

How to check HTTP Header and Connection Stats from the Command Line

A few days ago, I discussed with somebody whether a file was cached by Cloudflare or not, and this involved getting the HTTP header, and checking for CF-RAY field to see if data is going through one of Cloudflare data centers. This can be done with curl:

curl -svo /dev/null http://www.cnx-software.com
* Rebuilt URL to: http://www.cnx-software.com/
*   Trying 104.28.19.95...
* Connected to www.cnx-software.com (104.28.19.95) port 80 (#0)
> GET / HTTP/1.1
> Host: www.cnx-software.com
> User-Agent: curl/7.47.0
> Accept: */*
> 
< HTTP/1.1 200 OK
< Date: Mon, 03 Oct 2016 09:57:17 GMT
< Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
< Transfer-Encoding: chunked
< Connection: keep-alive
< Set-Cookie: __cfduid=d90ff49c11865e8fda1331c2977559f521475488637; expires=Tue, 03-Oct-17 09:57:17 GMT; path=/; domain=.cnx-software.com; HttpOnly
< X-Powered-By: PHP/5.5.9-1ubuntu4.19
< Expires: Wed, 11 Jan 1984 05:00:00 GMT
< Cache-Control: no-cache, must-revalidate, max-age=0
< Pragma: no-cache
< X-UA-Compatible: IE=edge
< Link: <http://www.cnx-software.com/wp-json/>; rel="https://api.w.org/"
< Server: cloudflare-nginx
< CF-RAY: 2ebf876da273114d-SIN
< 
{ [2307 bytes data]
* Connection #0 to host www.cnx-software.com left intact

curl -svo /dev/null http://www.cnx-software.com

* Rebuilt URL to: http://www.cnx-software.com/

* Trying 104.28.19.95...

* Connected to www.cnx-software.com (104.28.19.95) port 80 (#0)

> GET / HTTP/1.1

> Host: www.cnx-software.com

> User-Agent: curl/7.47.0

> Accept: */*

< HTTP/1.1 200 OK

< Date: Mon, 03 Oct 2016 09:57:17 GMT

< Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8

< Transfer-Encoding: chunked

< Connection: keep-alive

< Set-Cookie: __cfduid=d90ff49c11865e8fda1331c2977559f521475488637; expires=Tue, 03-Oct-17 09:57:17 GMT; path=/; domain=.cnx-software.com; HttpOnly

< X-Powered-By: PHP/5.5.9-1ubuntu4.19

< Expires: Wed, 11 Jan 1984 05:00:00 GMT

< Cache-Control: no-cache, must-revalidate, max-age=0

< Pragma: no-cache

< X-UA-Compatible: IE=edge

< Link: <http://www.cnx-software.com/wp-json/>; rel="https://api.w.org/"

< Server: cloudflare-nginx

< CF-RAY: 2ebf876da273114d-SIN

{ [2307 bytes data]

* Connection #0 to host www.cnx-software.com left intact

In the command above, -s stands for silent so that curl does not show the progress meter, -v stands for verbose to show the header, and -o /dev/null is used to discard the packet load. You can also use -I option (fetch the HTTP-header only) with curl, which – if all you need is the HTTP header – provides a cleaner output:

curl -I http://www.cnx-software.com
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Mon, 03 Oct 2016 10:06:51 GMT
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
Connection: keep-alive
Set-Cookie: __cfduid=d4dda8a9ec8370cf0950d26e5faf37cc21475489211; expires=Tue, 03-Oct-17 10:06:51 GMT; path=/; domain=.cnx-software.com; HttpOnly
X-Powered-By: PHP/5.5.9-1ubuntu4.19
Expires: Wed, 11 Jan 1984 05:00:00 GMT
Cache-Control: no-cache, must-revalidate, max-age=0
Pragma: no-cache
Set-Cookie: bb2_screener_=1475489211+1.1.174.2+1.1.174.2; path=/
X-UA-Compatible: IE=edge
Link: &lt;http://www.cnx-software.com/wp-json/&gt;; rel="https://api.w.org/"
Server: cloudflare-nginx
CF-RAY: 2ebf9574c129081d-SIN

curl -I http://www.cnx-software.com

HTTP/1.1 200 OK

Date: Mon, 03 Oct 2016 10:06:51 GMT

Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8

Connection: keep-alive

Set-Cookie: __cfduid=d4dda8a9ec8370cf0950d26e5faf37cc21475489211; expires=Tue, 03-Oct-17 10:06:51 GMT; path=/; domain=.cnx-software.com; HttpOnly

X-Powered-By: PHP/5.5.9-1ubuntu4.19

Expires: Wed, 11 Jan 1984 05:00:00 GMT

Cache-Control: no-cache, must-revalidate, max-age=0

Pragma: no-cache

Set-Cookie: bb2_screener_=1475489211+1.1.174.2+1.1.174.2; path=/

X-UA-Compatible: IE=edge

Link: <http://www.cnx-software.com/wp-json/>; rel="https://api.w.org/"

Server: cloudflare-nginx

CF-RAY: 2ebf9574c129081d-SIN

I also came across httpstat Python script recently via n0where, doing much of the same thing, except it also adds transfer statistics. It can be installed by downloading httpstat.py, or better using pip:

sudo pip install httpstat

1	sudo pip install httpstat

Let’s try it with this very […]

September 20, 2016September 20, 2016 by Jean-Luc Aufranc (CNXSoft) - 12 Comments

How to Download YouTube 4K Videos with Youtube-dl Script

Many Android devices can now support 4K VP9 and/or H.264 video decoding, but for some reasons, Google only serves 4K videos to devices running Android TV OS, as opposed to just Android, with the latter limited to 1080p videos. If for some reasons you want to watch a YouTube 4K video on a capable device, you could download it with youtube-dl script written in Python, and available for Linux, Windows, and Mac OS. I’ve been using the script for a while to download various video or audio files from YouTube, and other website, but for the purpose of this post, I made sure to update it to the latest version:

sudo curl -L https://yt-dl.org/downloads/latest/youtube-dl -o /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl
sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl

1 2	sudo curl -L https://yt-dl.org/downloads/latest/youtube-dl -o /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl

If you have already installed the script, it can also be updated with:

sudo youtube-dl --update

1	sudo youtube-dl --update

I’ll use one of the most popular 4K videos on YouTube as example, namely: COSTA RICA IN 4K 60fps (ULTRA HD) w/ Freefly Movi. The […]

September 15, 2016September 15, 2016 by Jean-Luc Aufranc (CNXSoft) - 11 Comments

Receive Android SMS & Call Notifications in Ubuntu 16.04 with KDE Connect (or Not?)

I often miss calls, and I may be slow to answer SMS on my Android phone, but I’m often in front of my computer, so I decided to look for solutions to show SMS and call notifications on my computer running Ubuntu 16.04. I first found LinConnect, but it does not seem to be developed anymore, and after some more research I discovered that KDE Connect should do the job. The developer just released KDE Connect 1.0 a few weeks ago with add encryption, the ability to reply to SMS from your computer and more… One person posted instructions for Kubuntu 16.04. There’s just a problem it won’t work with Unity desktop, only KDE Plasma, due to a lack of support for Qt 5.6. You can still use the older version without encryption and other new features by “simply” running:

sudo apt install kdeconnect-plasma

1	sudo apt install kdeconnect-plasma

However the installation failed for me:

Unpacking kde-cli-tools-data (4:5.5.5-0ubuntu1) ...
dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/kde-cli-tools-data_4%3a5.5.5-0ubuntu1_all.deb (--unpack):
 trying to overwrite '/usr/share/locale/th/LC_MESSAGES/kmimetypefinder.mo', which is also in package kde-l10n-th 4:4.10.97-0ubuntu1
dpkg-deb: error: subprocess paste was killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Preparing to unpack .../libkf5sysguard-data_4%3a5.5.5-0ubuntu2_all.deb ...
Unpacking libkf5sysguard-data (4:5.5.5-0ubuntu2) ...
dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/libkf5sysguard-data_4%3a5.5.5-0ubuntu2_all.deb (--unpack):
 trying to overwrite '/usr/share/locale/th/LC_MESSAGES/processui.mo', which is also in package kde-l10n-th 4:4.10.97-0ubuntu1
dpkg-deb: error: subprocess paste was killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Preparing to unpack .../plasma-workspace_4%3a5.5.5.2-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking plasma-workspace (4:5.5.5.2-0ubuntu1) ...
dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/plasma-workspace_4%3a5.5.5.2-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb (--unpack):
 trying to overwrite '/usr/share/locale/th/LC_MESSAGES/plasma_runner_recentdocuments.mo', which is also in package kde-l10n-th 4:4.10.97-0ubuntu1
dpkg-deb: error: subprocess paste was killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Processing triggers for dbus (1.10.6-1ubuntu3) ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/kde-cli-tools-data_4%3a5.5.5-0ubuntu1_all.deb
 /var/cache/apt/archives/libkf5sysguard-data_4%3a5.5.5-0ubuntu2_all.deb
 /var/cache/apt/archives/plasma-workspace_4%3a5.5.5.2-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Unpacking kde-cli-tools-data (4:5.5.5-0ubuntu1) ...

dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/kde-cli-tools-data_4%3a5.5.5-0ubuntu1_all.deb (--unpack):

trying to overwrite '/usr/share/locale/th/LC_MESSAGES/kmimetypefinder.mo', which is also in package kde-l10n-th 4:4.10.97-0ubuntu1

dpkg-deb: error: subprocess paste was killed by signal (Broken pipe)

Preparing to unpack .../libkf5sysguard-data_4%3a5.5.5-0ubuntu2_all.deb ...

Unpacking libkf5sysguard-data (4:5.5.5-0ubuntu2) ...

dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/libkf5sysguard-data_4%3a5.5.5-0ubuntu2_all.deb (--unpack):

trying to overwrite '/usr/share/locale/th/LC_MESSAGES/processui.mo', which is also in package kde-l10n-th 4:4.10.97-0ubuntu1

dpkg-deb: error: subprocess paste was killed by signal (Broken pipe)

Preparing to unpack .../plasma-workspace_4%3a5.5.5.2-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb ...

Unpacking plasma-workspace (4:5.5.5.2-0ubuntu1) ...

dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/plasma-workspace_4%3a5.5.5.2-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb (--unpack):

trying to overwrite '/usr/share/locale/th/LC_MESSAGES/plasma_runner_recentdocuments.mo', which is also in package kde-l10n-th 4:4.10.97-0ubuntu1

dpkg-deb: error: subprocess paste was killed by signal (Broken pipe)

Processing triggers for dbus (1.10.6-1ubuntu3) ...

Errors were encountered while processing:

/var/cache/apt/archives/kde-cli-tools-data_4%3a5.5.5-0ubuntu1_all.deb

/var/cache/apt/archives/libkf5sysguard-data_4%3a5.5.5-0ubuntu2_all.deb

/var/cache/apt/archives/plasma-workspace_4%3a5.5.5.2-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb

E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

An “apt […]

September 3, 2016 by Jean-Luc Aufranc (CNXSoft) - 9 Comments

How Fix Apps Crashing at Launch in Android 6.0 (in Mediatek Phones) ?

I’ve recently received a new Android 6.0 Marshmallow smartphone powered by Mediatek Helio X20 processor, namely Vernee Apollo Lite, and one of the issues I encountered is that some applications such as Firefox and MAPS.ME would crash when I tried to launch them. The problem was reproducible 100% of the time, and occurred from the very first time I tried to start the app. I’d get a message like “Unfortunately MAPS.ME has stopped” with two buttons: REPORT or OK. So I asked on Vernee forums to report the issue, and see if other people had the same problem. One replied had the same problem, but a simple reboot would fix the issue, while the other proposed to clear the cache. I had not considered that option since the crash occurred from the very first time, but I tried anyway. Go to the App list, drag and drop the problematic app […]

August 19, 2016August 30, 2016 by Jean-Luc Aufranc (CNXSoft) - 26 Comments

Amlogic Releases Linux 3.14 Source Code for S905X, S905D, and S912 Processors, Has Started Working on Linux 4.4 / Android 7.0

Amlogic has just released buildroot with Linux 3.14 with support for Amlogic S905X (p212 board), S905D (p230 board), and S912 (Q200 board) processors, and the company appears to have started working on Linux 4.4 likely for future support for Android 7.0. You can check the source code as follows:

wget -c http://openlinux.amlogic.com:8000/download/ARM/filesystem/arm-buildroot-2016-08-18-5aaca1b35f.tar.gz
tar xf arm-buildroot-2016-08-18-5aaca1b35f.tar.gz
cd buildroot

wget -c http://openlinux.amlogic.com:8000/download/ARM/filesystem/arm-buildroot-2016-08-18-5aaca1b35f.tar.gz

tar xf arm-buildroot-2016-08-18-5aaca1b35f.tar.gz

cd buildroot

If you have the wrong toolchain the code won’t build (See comments section). So I installed several toolchains provided by Amlogic (all may not be needed) in /opt:

wget -c http://openlinux.amlogic.com:8000/deploy/gcc-linaro-aarch64-linux-gnu-4.9-2014.09_linux.tar
wget -c http://openlinux.amlogic.com:8000/deploy/gcc-linaro-aarch64-none-elf-4.8-2013.11_linux.tar
wget -c http://openlinux.amlogic.com:8000/deploy/gcc-linaro-arm-linux-gnueabihf.tar.gz
wget -c http://openlinux.amlogic.com:8000/deploy/arc-4.8-amlogic-20130904-r2.tar.gz
wget -c http://openlinux.amlogic.com:8000/deploy/CodeSourcery.tar.gz
sudo tar xvf gcc-linaro-aarch64-linux-gnu-4.9-2014.09_linux.tar -C /opt
sudo tar xvf gcc-linaro-aarch64-none-elf-4.8-2013.11_linux.tar.bz2 -C /opt
sudo tar xvf arc-4.8-amlogic-20130904-r2.tar.gz -C /opt
sudo tar xvf gcc-linaro-arm-linux-gnueabihf.tar.gz -C /opt
sudo tar xvf CodeSourcery.tar.gz -C /opt

wget -c http://openlinux.amlogic.com:8000/deploy/gcc-linaro-aarch64-linux-gnu-4.9-2014.09_linux.tar

wget -c http://openlinux.amlogic.com:8000/deploy/gcc-linaro-aarch64-none-elf-4.8-2013.11_linux.tar

wget -c http://openlinux.amlogic.com:8000/deploy/gcc-linaro-arm-linux-gnueabihf.tar.gz

wget -c http://openlinux.amlogic.com:8000/deploy/arc-4.8-amlogic-20130904-r2.tar.gz

wget -c http://openlinux.amlogic.com:8000/deploy/CodeSourcery.tar.gz

sudo tar xvf gcc-linaro-aarch64-linux-gnu-4.9-2014.09_linux.tar -C /opt

sudo tar xvf gcc-linaro-aarch64-none-elf-4.8-2013.11_linux.tar.bz2 -C /opt

sudo tar xvf arc-4.8-amlogic-20130904-r2.tar.gz -C /opt

sudo tar xvf gcc-linaro-arm-linux-gnueabihf.tar.gz -C /opt

sudo tar xvf CodeSourcery.tar.gz -C /opt

I also downloaded a shell script to add the toolchains to my path:

wget http://openlinux.amlogic.com:8000/deploy/TOOLSENV.sh
source TOOLSENV.sh

1 2	wget http://openlinux.amlogic.com:8000/deploy/TOOLSENV.sh source TOOLSENV.sh

Once toolchains are setup, you can select one of three boards config (Q200 / S912 as example) and start building the code:

sudo apt install build-essential
make mesongxm_q200_release_defconfig
make

sudo apt install build-essential

make mesongxm_q200_release_defconfig

make

If you are interested in S905X or S905D instead, use respectively mesongxl_p212_release_defconfig or mesongxl_p230_release_defconfig. I built both S912:

ls -l output/images/
total 1338448
-rw-r--r-- 1 jaufranc jaufranc   20407939 Aug 30 13:44 boot.img
lrwxrwxrwx 1 jaufranc jaufranc         54 Aug 30 13:44 dtb.img -> /home/jaufranc/buildroot/output/images/gxm_q200_2g.dtb
-rw-r--r-- 1 jaufranc jaufranc      40521 Aug 30 11:34 gxm_q200_2g.dtb
-rw-r--r-- 1 jaufranc jaufranc   16973552 Aug 30 11:34 Image
-rw-r--r-- 1 jaufranc jaufranc    7002624 Aug 30 13:44 rootfs.cpio
-rw-r--r-- 1 jaufranc jaufranc    3391430 Aug 30 13:44 rootfs.cpio.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 jaufranc jaufranc    3391494 Aug 30 13:44 rootfs.cpio.uboot
-rw-r--r-- 1 jaufranc jaufranc 1073741824 Aug 30 13:44 rootfs.ext2
lrwxrwxrwx 1 jaufranc jaufranc         11 Aug 30 13:44 rootfs.ext4 -> rootfs.ext2
-rw-r--r-- 1 jaufranc jaufranc  176076800 Aug 30 13:44 rootfs.tar
-rw-r--r-- 1 jaufranc jaufranc   67588619 Aug 30 13:45 rootfs.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 jaufranc jaufranc     917504 Aug 30 13:42 u-boot.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 jaufranc jaufranc     918016 Aug 30 13:42 u-boot.bin.sd.bin

ls -l output/images/

total 1338448

-rw-r--r-- 1 jaufranc jaufranc 20407939 Aug 30 13:44 boot.img

lrwxrwxrwx 1 jaufranc jaufranc 54 Aug 30 13:44 dtb.img -> /home/jaufranc/buildroot/output/images/gxm_q200_2g.dtb

-rw-r--r-- 1 jaufranc jaufranc 40521 Aug 30 11:34 gxm_q200_2g.dtb

-rw-r--r-- 1 jaufranc jaufranc 16973552 Aug 30 11:34 Image

-rw-r--r-- 1 jaufranc jaufranc 7002624 Aug 30 13:44 rootfs.cpio

-rw-r--r-- 1 jaufranc jaufranc 3391430 Aug 30 13:44 rootfs.cpio.gz

-rw-r--r-- 1 jaufranc jaufranc 3391494 Aug 30 13:44 rootfs.cpio.uboot

-rw-r--r-- 1 jaufranc jaufranc 1073741824 Aug 30 13:44 rootfs.ext2

lrwxrwxrwx 1 jaufranc jaufranc 11 Aug 30 13:44 rootfs.ext4 -> rootfs.ext2

-rw-r--r-- 1 jaufranc jaufranc 176076800 Aug 30 13:44 rootfs.tar

-rw-r--r-- 1 jaufranc jaufranc 67588619 Aug 30 13:45 rootfs.tar.gz

-rw-r--r-- 1 jaufranc jaufranc 917504 Aug 30 13:42 u-boot.bin

-rw-r--r-- 1 jaufranc jaufranc 918016 Aug 30 13:42 u-boot.bin.sd.bin

and S905X images successfully:

ls -l output/images/
total 593932
-rw-r--r-- 1 jaufranc jaufranc   20408642 Aug 30 13:41 boot.img
lrwxrwxrwx 1 jaufranc jaufranc         72 Aug 30 13:41 dtb.img -> /home/jaufranc/edev/amlogic/905x/buildroot/output/images/gxl_p212_2g.dtb
-rw-r--r-- 1 jaufranc jaufranc      37278 Aug 30 12:08 gxl_p212_2g.dtb
-rw-r--r-- 1 jaufranc jaufranc   16973552 Aug 30 12:08 Image
-rw-r--r-- 1 jaufranc jaufranc    7002624 Aug 30 13:40 rootfs.cpio
-rw-r--r-- 1 jaufranc jaufranc    3391580 Aug 30 13:41 rootfs.cpio.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 jaufranc jaufranc    3391644 Aug 30 13:41 rootfs.cpio.uboot
-rw-r--r-- 1 jaufranc jaufranc 1073741824 Aug 30 13:41 rootfs.ext2
lrwxrwxrwx 1 jaufranc jaufranc         11 Aug 30 13:41 rootfs.ext4 -> rootfs.ext2
-rw-r--r-- 1 jaufranc jaufranc  230502400 Aug 30 13:41 rootfs.tar
-rw-r--r-- 1 jaufranc jaufranc   90573453 Aug 30 13:41 rootfs.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 jaufranc jaufranc     917504 Aug 30 13:39 u-boot.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 jaufranc jaufranc     918016 Aug 30 13:39 u-boot.bin.sd.bin

ls -l output/images/

total 593932

-rw-r--r-- 1 jaufranc jaufranc 20408642 Aug 30 13:41 boot.img

lrwxrwxrwx 1 jaufranc jaufranc 72 Aug 30 13:41 dtb.img -> /home/jaufranc/edev/amlogic/905x/buildroot/output/images/gxl_p212_2g.dtb

-rw-r--r-- 1 jaufranc jaufranc 37278 Aug 30 12:08 gxl_p212_2g.dtb

-rw-r--r-- 1 jaufranc jaufranc 16973552 Aug 30 12:08 Image

-rw-r--r-- 1 jaufranc jaufranc 7002624 Aug 30 13:40 rootfs.cpio

-rw-r--r-- 1 jaufranc jaufranc 3391580 Aug 30 13:41 rootfs.cpio.gz

-rw-r--r-- 1 jaufranc jaufranc 3391644 Aug 30 13:41 rootfs.cpio.uboot

-rw-r--r-- 1 jaufranc jaufranc 1073741824 Aug 30 13:41 rootfs.ext2

lrwxrwxrwx 1 jaufranc jaufranc 11 Aug 30 13:41 rootfs.ext4 -> rootfs.ext2

-rw-r--r-- 1 jaufranc jaufranc 230502400 Aug 30 13:41 rootfs.tar

-rw-r--r-- 1 jaufranc jaufranc 90573453 Aug 30 13:41 rootfs.tar.gz

-rw-r--r-- 1 jaufranc jaufranc 917504 Aug 30 13:39 u-boot.bin

-rw-r--r-- 1 jaufranc jaufranc 918016 Aug 30 13:39 u-boot.bin.sd.bin

Separately, you can also find buildroot for Linux 4.4, but […]

August 18, 2016November 26, 2016 by Jean-Luc Aufranc (CNXSoft) - 18 Comments

Getting Started with B&T RTL-00 RTL8710 Module – Serial Console, AT Commands, and ESP8266 Pin-to-Pin Compatibility

The announcement of the ultra-low cost ARM based Realtek RTL8710 WiFi modules for IoT applications generated quite a lot of buzz since they can potentially compete with the popular ESP8266 modules. The main problem at the time was documentation and software support, but after some searches we could find that RTL8710 was part of Realtek Ameba family, and found some documents and an SDK for RTL8710/RTL8711/RTL8195. ICStation also kindly provided one B&T RTL-00 module for review, which costs $3.55 shipped per unit, and as low as $2.85 if you purchase 10 or more. The question here is how to get started? The answer can be found in page 8 of the Chinese datasheet for the module with GB0 and GB1 pins used for Tx and Rx to access the serial console. Time for some soldering… For the first test, we’ll just need Tx (GB1), Rx (GB0), GND and 3.3V, and […]

August 16, 2016August 16, 2016 by Jean-Luc Aufranc (CNXSoft) - 11 Comments

How-to Setup a DLNA/UPnP Server in Linux for Smoother Video Streaming with Kodi and Other Media Players

I’m normally playing videos from a SAMBA share installed in a Ubuntu PC to play files from Kodi in Android TV box reviews, but sometimes when I use 10/100 Ethernet, or worse WiFi local “streaming” may not be as smooth as possible. SAMBA is convenient because of access control and read write operations, but if you want to get a bit more performance, you may switch to NFS instead, or like I’ve going to show you here to a DLNA / UPnP server to stream videos locally from Kodi 16.1. There are several options, but MiniDLNA is lightweight compared to MediaTomb, so it will also run on lower end hardware like cheap ARM Linux development boards like Raspberry Pi, Orange Pi, or NanoPi NEO without taking too many resources. Installation is very easy in Debian / Ubuntu distributions, and I supposed this should also work with Windows Subsystem for Linux […]