Officepad – Etherpad alternative based on Onlyoffice
During the Chaos Communication Camp 2019 I was working on a project called Officepad. The aim was to build a web interface comparable to Etherpad. Etherpad is a well established tool for online text collaboration used by software developers, activists and so on. Etherpad is relatively stable and works well …
Bye bye Play Store! Mirroring Play Store Apks to private F-Droid repo
This small tutorial will show you how to setup your own F-Droid repository containing automatically mirrored Play Store apps. Using this private repo, you don’t have to relay on Google Play Store or third party stores anymore to keep non-free apps up-to-date. All you need to have is a Linux …
Ebook reader app for Nextcloud
Because of lack of altenatives I decided to write a small ebook reader plugin for Nextcloud. The task of creating such an app was quite easy: I just forked the files_pdfviewer extension and replaced PDF.js with the Epub.js library. In the app template file, I used the reference ebook reader …
Hacking replay gain audio normalization into Jellyfin
There is already a feature request for audio normalization in Jellyfin media server. This is important if you want to listen to your music collection while always having the same loudness level. Usually, in different recordings or music genres some tracks are louder and others are more quiet. The standard …
Importing playlists to Jellyfin media server
In the following post I would like to describe a way to import music playlists to Jellyfin media server, for example in case you want to migrate them from a former Plex or Emby installation. Usually, Jellyfin is already able to detect playlist files within the media library. Unfortunately my …
Jellyfin media server on Archlinux ARM
In this post, I want to share some insights on building Jellyfin media server for Archlinux ARM. The PKGBUILD for Jellyfin one can find on the AUR, is specifically made for 64 bit architectures. Nevertheless Microsoft released the dotnet runtime, which Jellyfin relies on instead of Mono, also for Linux …
Voice control Archlinux with Amazon Alexa
I was interested to see how commercial voice recognition software would behave on an usual Linux laptop and tried to deploy an Amazon Alexa instance. There are some installation scripts and tutorials available for Ubuntu and Raspberry PI using the avs-device-sdk from Github. Even though some of them are official …
Auto update Archlinux and user repository
In this post I’m going to describe on how to setup automatic package upgrades / system updates. In the first part, a systemd service script and timer triggers the package manager pacman to automatically sync the repositories and upgrade the packages every hour: The last command enables (on boot) and …