Playin' around with Electronics and Computers

Month: November 2018

IPv6 in my LAN with Unitymedia, Technicolor TC7200, Ubiquiti EdgeOS on Edgerouter X and Prefix Delegation

November 15th, 2018Documentation, Hardware, Networking, Tutorial4 Comments

This post describes how to set up IPv6 with Edgerouter X (and supposedly any EdgeOS device) in interplay with the infameous Technicolor TC7200 cable modem as provided by Unitymedia in Germany, using prefix delegation to advertise valid IPv6 addresses into the LAN. This guide shows how to configure settings via GUI instead of CLI.

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Quick Note: Web-View with PyQt5 and Qt 5.7+ on Raspberry Pi

November 4th, 2018Documentation, Raspberry Pi, SoftwareNo Comments

This is a short note how to use QtWebKit with Qt 5.7+ on Raspberry Pi.

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I make use of the following free and mostly open source software and services to create content for this blog and in my projects (this list will be notoriously incomplete – sorry to everyone I forgot…). Thanks a lot to all the contributors!

Antispam Bee
Arduino IDE, libraries and board definitions
Audacity
Beautiful Soup
Circuit Board image by Flash Alexander (Background image)
Cura
curl
Disable XML-RPC
Docker and some ready made containers
Easy Table of Contents
Enable Media Replace
Fixed Widget
Fritzing
Fusion 360
Gimp
Greenshot
Inkscape
IrfanView
KiCad
Kodi/LibreELEC/CoreELEC/xbian and many addons
Limit Login Attempts Reloaded
Linux/Debian/Raspbian
(and many, many distro packages)
lxml
Maperitive and processed SRTM elevation data
Mobile Atlas Creator (MOBAC)
and many map services by the EU governments
NEdit
Notepad++
OpenStreetMap
openv
OruxMaps
Osmosis
PuTTY
Prusa Slicer
Python and many libraries
Rufus
Q2W3 Fixed Widget
Scribus
TinyMCE
tvheadend
Urvanov Syntax Highlighter which is a fork/revival of the Crayon Syntax Highlighter
Widget Logic
Win32DiskImager
WinSCP
WordPress (obviously…)
WP GDPR compliance, which is now Cookie Information | Free WP GDPR Consent Plugin
WPS Hide Login
Xming
Zakra WordPress theme

The publications provided here are created to my best knowledge and usually based on my own experiments and setups. However, errors may occur. I take no responsibility for any damage caused by any publication. I highly recommend everyone to doublecheck everything before reproducing any project.

I am in no way dependent, paid or influenced by any product and/or software vendors, hardware distributors etc. that I mention in the articles or show images of, unless explicitly stated. I strongly encourage the reader to compare prices, products and software on his or her own in order to find the best product yourself.