Posts in category "project"
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CamillaDSP and Room EQ Wizard
In a previous post, I explained how I got CamillaDSP to work with Kodi (Coreelec) to route audio from Kodi to HDMI. In this continuation post, I will go over how I corrected my room’s frequency response using Room EQ Wizard (REW) and CamillaDSP.
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CamillaDSP in CoreELEC
I have a 5.1 surround system and that was good enough for my needs. But there is one problem that has been bothering me for a while and that is the room’s frequency response. I don’t have a dedicated home theater room. The TV and surround sound is in my living room with a lot of open spaces. The floor, walls and ceiling are all very reflective surfaces. Which means the audio experience is not the greatest.
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A Not So Failed Hard Disk
By now you must have heard this several times that I have a 8 TB hard disk that stores all my media, photos and documents. I also have backup drives which put together is 8 TB. So in the unfortunate event that either of these volumes fail, I have another copy of all my precious media. As luck would have it, my main 8 TB drive stopped working suddenly one day.
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Fixing Electric Weed Cutter
About a year ago we purchased an electric weed cutter to mow some weed around our house. We live in a house where we are surrounded by plots of land on which no one has yet built their house. This is a welcome boon because we don’t have to worry about neighbors and have ample light and breeze coming from all sides of our house. The problem however is that a lot of weeds grows soon after the rainy season and that attracts rats, snakes and scorpions. The owners of these plots don’t seem to care about the up-keep. So we clean up parts of the plots surrounding our house.
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Homelab Is Ready
I’ve been quite busy setting up my homelab for the past few months and did not get any time to update the blog. Thought I’d do a quick post on my setup if it interests anyone. I will not go into too much detail. If you need more information, let me know in the comments and I might expand on it a bit in a future post. Let’s begin with a screenshot of the containers I am running.
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Poor Man's Air Cooler
I try some crazy experiments from time to time. One of them happens every summer. We don’t have an air conditioner in our house. We actually never felt the need for an AC until about a few years ago here in Bangalore. The temperature is very pleasant most of the year except for a couple of months in summer. In particular, March and April tend to be hot. So I have been trying out some experiments to bring down the temperature. I did one such experiment this year as well.
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Disabling Comments
Since I was not actively planning to write to my audience, I have disabled comments section. You cannot read old comments either. Have to figure out a way to at least show the comments in a static format. Again, that will take some time. So perhaps I will do it some day, but not today :). Disabling comments also frees up some resources (compute engine instance), so I don’t have to continue to pay for the VM. If you really feel the need to comment, use contact me form for now. Just wanted to give an update.
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Moving DNS From Squarespace To Cloudflare
On April 1st, I decided to publish my last regular blog post. I meant it to be an ambiguous post. It was supposed to bring questions to my reader’s mind as to whether it was a joke or real. While I really decided to quit making regular posts, I made some changes to DNS records that broke my blog for almost 14 hours. The joke was on me :).
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Mechanical Keyboard Repair
A few days ago, my mechanical keyboard started to develop some weird issues. If you remember, this is my first mechanical keyboard which I bought in November, 2021. The purchase date has a significance because in almost exactly 3 years, in November 2024, the keyboard started to misbehave. I know it is a coincidence, but sometimes I wonder if it is part of the planned obsolescence theory. Manufacturers design the hardware in such a way that the products automatically fail after a certain period.
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Music System Frequency Response
Although I am not an audiophile, I am a critical listener and I can tell when the sound quality is not up to the mark. While I like my current 5.1 music system setup, I still feel like it could do better. I spend about 70% of the time listening to music and about 30% of the time watching movies, or TV shows or live TV. So a major part of my listening is music. Generally I like a very flat response from my speakers. I don’t like overly bright sound in general. A slightly warm sound is acceptable, but prefer the frequency response to be flat so I can listen to music as the original author intended it. So I decided to check the frequency response of my speakers.
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