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 on a basic text level. […]

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 server with a public web […]

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 interface which is good enough […]

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 ReplayGain for audio files tries […]

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 old m3u8 playlist files from […]

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 and further for Linux ARM […]

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 instructions, they still looked messy […]

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 starts the timer. The second […]