Personal Projects

As I don’t develop software professionally (anymore), I have a lot of passion left to tinker with software in my free time. Besides providing a space for some of my older writing, this is a blog about these side projects.

While you’re here, check out my projects about Video Games, Reverse Engineering, Home Automation or my Personal Media Server.

Porting ScummVM to Webassembly, Part 3

I finally found some time over the holidays to wrap up some improvements I was working on for ScummVM last year.

HDHomerun Server Emulation in Tvheadend

Time to retire tvhProxy by adding HDHomerun emulation to Tvheadend.

Github Shortcodes for the Hugo Static Page Generator

I link a lot to various GitHub items, so I built some Hugo shortcodes for it.

Reverse Engineering the 1995 FMV Game Silent Steel

Silent Steel is a submarine-themed FMV game released in 1995. This is the summary of it’s file formats, including a prototype re-implementation.

How to Add the Amphiro Hand Shower to Home Assistant

Looking into how to reverse engineer a funky christmas present and building out a new Home Assistant integration for it.

Forwarding Bluetooth with the AB BLE Gateway

We recently moved and I decided to buy a BLE-IP gateway off AliExpress. Turns out this needed some hacking to get it to work with Home Assistant.

Porting ScummVM to Webassembly, Part 2

Since merging the initial Webassembly port of ScummVM, I have added a few critical improvements

HP iLO Integration for Home Assistant

I have been using a HP Microserver for a few years as my home lab and quite enjoy it. Unfortunately Home Assistant’s existing HP Integrated Lights-Out (ILO) integration is very limited and does not have any configuration integration. I have started working on an updated version of this integration. For the initial release, I focused on three things: ...

Sensirion SCD4x CO₂ Home Assistant Integration

I recently added support support for the Sensirion SCD4x CO₂ Gadget to the Passive BLE Monitor integration for Home Assistant.

Porting ScummVM to Webassembly

Making old adventure (and other) games available on the web.

Does Steam Remote Play support NvFBC on Linux?

Trying to get Steam Remote Play working from my Linux home lab, I noticed that while Steam offers capturing the frame data with NvFBC, the setting doesn’t seem have any impact. Why is that?

Why WebVTT subtitles in Plex don't work

For some reason video files downloaded from the web won’t play in Plex if they have subtitles.

tvhProxy: Streaming TVHeadend into Plex DVR

Plex launched it’s DVR feature in 2016. Unfortunately, it only supports either DVR tuners connected to the server directly or HDHomeRun devices. tvhProxy fixes that.

Extracting EPG data from the TV7 IPTV service

Init7, my FTTH provider has a great IPTV offering called TV7 Unfortunately there’s no way to fetch the EPG data.

Simulating barcode scanning on the web

The yearly hackathon at work is always a great time to pursue new ideas or play around in fun ways with existing technology. My entry in 2019 was a humorous take on using simulations when developing computer vision software. I long wondered to see if we could use modern game engines or other simulation technology to augment some of our real world testing at scale. For the hackathon, I decided to apply my (as you will see quite limited) skills and implement a prototype of such a system. ...