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Telegram Bot API
The Telegram Bot API can be found here! The web hooks look interesting for two way communication between bot and user(s), and looks simple enough to implement so possibly a future activity.
Bot Notifications using Telegram
This PHP setup is based off of the excellent Python article provided by Man Hay Hong. To get started you need to download/install Telegram and set yourself up as a user. Once it is installed you need to setup a … Continue reading
Installing Gitea (my own GitHub)
To install Gitea on a Synology under Docker you can pretty much follow the instructions found here I used the custome setup with some minor changes to the USER-UID & USER-GID for the account I want to run under on … Continue reading
SVN Quick Reference
View Repository svn ls svn://{server}/projects Import New Folders in to Repository svn import {folder} svn://{server}/projects/{folder} -m “{comment}” Checkout Folder/Files from Repository svn co svn://{server}/projects/{folder} View Status of Files in Folder svn status Checkin Changed Files … Continue reading
Docker Quick Reference
View/Change Container Status docker ps {list running containers} docker ps -a {list all containers even exited ones} docker container pause … Continue reading
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Excel: Expand multi-line rows
How to end up with one row per entry in a spreadsheet when some cells contain multiple entries. This example will expand the data below in to multiple rows using a VB. Noting here for my reference. The following code … Continue reading
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Creating an Alexa Skill to work with your Synology
I found this excellent article on creating a basic Alexa skill. Follow this tutorial to get a basic skill and use the php code below instead of the shell script in the tutorial as the Synology does not like non-PHP … Continue reading
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Broadlink RM IR control via Python
Christmas I received the Broadlink RM device for controlling IR devices with the intention of using it with Amazon Alexa. It turns out that the service is not available in the UK so the only way to control the device … Continue reading
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Synology Certificates and Alexa Skills
If you want to host Alexa skills on your Synology you will need to use Let’s Encrypt certificates as the default one will not authenticate for the skill. To check if your certificate is okay use SSLChecker to validate the certificate from … Continue reading
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Installing Screen on Synology
Home page for screen To install on synology you need to have ipkg installed. Mine is located in /opt/bin. sudo /opt/bin/ipkg install screen If you just run /opt/bin/screen you will get a terminal error as you may not have a … Continue reading
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