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daftykinshttp://www.ebuyer.com/698295-cello-c42250dvb4k-42-4k-led-tv-c42250dvb4k00:41
mapppsmorning05:35
knightwisehey mappps , how are you06:19
diddledanmornin06:31
knightwisehey diddledan how are you today ?06:37
diddledanI'm good thanks ;-006:37
diddledanerr06:37
diddledan:-)06:37
diddledansilly fingers can't type an emoticon :-p06:37
knightwiselol06:38
knightwise its ok , its still early06:38
knightwiseI'm listening to some ambient sounds to help me wakeup06:38
knightwisehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQ3h0ybGI3w06:38
* diddledan clicks06:39
diddledanlol06:39
diddledanthose startrek warp drives must be awesome for their comforting noises06:40
knightwisethey are :) helps me too when I cant get to sleep06:41
knightwiseheadphones on ... zzzzzz06:41
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MooDoomorning all07:28
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diddledanm0007:36
MartijnVdS\o07:36
brobostigonmorning boys and girls.07:58
MooDoomorning08:00
brobostigonmorning MooDoo08:01
diploMorning all08:03
brobostigonmorning diplo08:06
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foobarryi completed super mario galaxy over the weekend...discovered i had got to the final stage about 3 years ago and never got round to attempting it08:34
directhexi finished SMG, and it was good, but i can't get excited enough to play 208:36
directhexi think i bought it on wiiu virtual console, but haven't touched it08:36
foobarrywhat happens after you complete it?08:37
foobarrystill have lots of stars to collect, but are extra features opened up?08:37
popeyjust played/streamed a windows game from my windows steam box to my linux laptop via steam. Surprised how well it works.08:40
davmor2popey: why not just vnc?08:42
popeyuh. no.08:43
davmor2popey: or login to your windows pc via the Ubuntu login (me still has no idea how that works :) )08:43
popeystill no08:43
popey:)08:43
popeytoo slow, low framerate, no audio, no controller passthrough08:44
davmor2popey: only asking :)08:44
foobarrydirecthex: in my mind SMG2 is just more of the same and cannot get excited about it. i've no idea if anything in the game is different/better. i might as well just play SMG and collect all 120 stars08:44
directhexi was bummed out on mario after sunshine08:44
directhexand i'm bummed out on zelda after twili08:45
foobarrysunshine was really hard08:47
foobarryi got stuck (by boredom ) on zelda during a weird level08:47
directhexokami was the best zelda game for a decade08:47
foobarryi hated the wolf scenes on twiligh too08:47
foobarrywhat's the one after?08:47
foobarrythe one i got a gold controller for08:47
directhexafter twilight princess? skyward sword08:48
foobarryyeah08:48
foobarrygot bored on a level where it was dark and i had to catch a load of things08:48
foobarrythen the batteries leaked in my gold remote08:48
directhexi just can't care any more08:48
directhexnintendo have learned literally zero from modern game design, since their staff don't play non-nintendo games08:49
directhexthey're just recycling the same N64 design choices over and over08:49
foobarryhowever it works to an extent as i am still playing the wii08:53
foobarryand my son abolsutely loves it (5)08:53
directhexmaybe i'm just old and grumpy08:54
MooDoodirecthex: you old? ;)08:55
directhexMooDoo: 31! but i've been playing nintendo for 26 years08:56
directhexso have experienced their changes (or lack thereof) over that time period08:56
directhexi think what drove me off skyward sword entirely was the god-awful flying controls.08:56
zmoylan-pii don't think i've ever held a nintendo controller other than the wii08:56
directhexi hate the wiimote08:56
directhexas far as nintendo systems go, i have NES, SNES, N64, GC, Wii, Wii U, GBP, GBC, GBA, DS, 3DS08:57
* zmoylan-pi pines for my zx spectrum +2...08:58
foobarryi like wiimote08:58
directhexi have a dragon 32 on the shelf in need of a good home08:58
directhexactually, 2 of them08:59
directhexsorta like a spectrum, but big and welsh08:59
zmoylan-pii remember seeing a dragon 32 manual around the last time i moved...08:59
zmoylan-pibeautiful keyboard, another also ran 8 bit computer that arrived too late08:59
directhexthe UK had no shortage of those09:00
zmoylan-pii liked the oric but mainly as it was nod to blakes 7...09:00
JamesTaitGood morning all; happy Tuesday, and happy Ferret Day! 😃09:05
bashrchappy ferret day09:06
directhexis there a sad ferret day?09:06
zmoylan-pia ferret that has no more pants to be stuffed down?09:08
davmor2shoves a live one up JamesTait trouser leg and offers bets on when it bites and how loud JamesTait scream is09:08
zmoylan-piJamesTait... in the conservatory, with a weasel...09:09
JamesTaitI think I'd be sad if I were a ferret stuck out in this weather.09:10
foobarrya ferret biting down on a gonad - possibly the most painful thing a human could experience?09:10
* JamesTait replaces tape on webcam, eyes zmoylan-pi suspiciously.09:10
directhexthe sun has appeared!09:11
davmor2directhex: that was my first colour compter the dragon 3209:11
davmor2computer even09:11
directhexdavmor2: want a couple?09:11
foobarryneed a blend of sun and rain this week as i planted a lawn09:11
davmor2directhex: no09:11
directhexi know one works. not sure about the other. may have mixed them up09:11
davmor2directhex: still no09:11
directhexshameful09:11
davmor2directhex: I have too much stuff already09:12
zmoylan-pia kitten dropping onto your lap while your wearing tracksuit... kitten digs in claws on landing, you jump up, kitten digs in claws harder...09:12
JamesTaitI knew I should have got the mower out yesterday, just couldn't bring myself to do it rather than going out on the bikes and then going to buy new brake pads.09:12
foobarrya hoe is such a great tool for gardening. i don't know how i coped before09:13
zmoylan-piaren't there robots for mowing the lawn... or sheep rentals...09:13
foobarrythe bludgeons guide to weeding09:13
foobarry"IGN also listed Super Mario Galaxy 2 as the greatest Wii game of all time"09:18
foobarrythe write ups sound like more of the same though :S09:18
directhexis it worth me finding a wiimote and changing the TV input? that's the question09:22
foobarrytv input?09:27
foobarryi use the standard cable i think09:27
directhexfoobarry: well the amp defaults to SAT/CATV, and the wiiu is on DVD/BD09:28
directhexthere's a whole knob i have to turn09:28
directhexlots of effort to play a game in SD09:28
shaunoit doesn't do it itself?!09:28
directhexshauno: no, the wii u doesn't support HDMI-CEC09:29
directhexnor does the xbox one. or my second-gen PS309:29
directhex(i.e. a fat one w/ semi-emulated ps2 support)09:30
directhexi think the slim does. the superslim definitely does09:30
shaunoheh, I haven't owned a console since the megadrive, so I wouldn't know the difference09:30
shaunoI just remember thinking scart was the best thing since sliced bread because it'd change inputs automatically09:31
shaunoseems strange that they've managed to go backwards since09:31
directhexwell, there are two ways to change the input on the av receiver - emulating the remote and sending IR signals (how a kinect-equipped xbone does it), or sending the commands down an HDMI data line (HDMI-CEC)09:31
foobarryfinally managed to remove teh cart switcher from my telly09:31
foobarryscart*09:32
directhexHDMI CEC means e.g. pressing a volume key on my TV affects the amp09:32
foobarryreduced my scart inputs to 209:32
czajkowskialoha09:32
directhexscart was a very silly solution to a problem09:32
foobarrythe thing about scart is that if your hand is round the back of the telly and you are trying to insert it blindly , it will take you 10 minutes of frustration09:33
shaunoI jsut wheel the telly out.  I've got so much behind there now that blindly inserting a limb could be fatal09:34
directhexshauno: there could be a happy ferret back there09:34
shaunothere actually could be :(09:34
shaunoalthough more my worry is these silly wall-warts that come with switchable plug bits.  I've a couple that like to fall off the plate if you look at them funny09:35
shaunowhich leaves some quite awkward shiny bits very exposed09:35
davmor2czajkowski: see how everyone ignores you, what did you do to traumatise them that much?09:36
* awilkins sends davmor2 for compulsory Ohana classes09:38
davmor2awilkins: hahaha nice :)09:40
davmor2czajkowski: Morning by the way09:40
czajkowskihmm my alt number key bindings are gone09:45
czajkowskifeck09:45
davmor2czajkowski: add them back again then ;)09:46
zmoylan-piwhen bindings unravel...09:46
czajkowskihmm have ctrl n and alt p workinbg but not alt number working09:47
davmor2czajkowski: for irssi?09:48
foobarrythat happens when i have tabs open09:49
zmoylan-pian update to the terminal software interferring perhaps...09:49
czajkowskidavmor2: aye09:53
popeyczajkowski: which terminal?09:53
davmor2czajkowski: ctrl n/p and alt n/p are defaults don't know about alt+number09:53
popeygnome-terminal?09:53
Laneygo into the preferences and clear the keybindings09:54
popeyyeah, it defaults to using ALT+(letter) for menus. disable that09:54
czajkowskipooopey aye09:54
czajkowskipopey: even09:55
czajkowski*headdesk*09:55
Laneythere's also "Switch to tab <n>" which you need to delete these days09:55
popeyi switched to terminator09:55
jpdspopey: You'll be back.09:55
czajkowskiahhhh09:55
davmor2now I understand why no-one answered you czajkowski calling popey pooopey he only tried to help you ;)09:56
popeyhah09:57
foobarrymy pet hate...clicking a search box on a web page, and having to delete the word "search" from the box before searching ...WHHHYYYY10:12
diplojavascript versions and browser versions foobarry10:13
diploI try and keep on top of it on my box, think I've removed most instances with placeholder=10:14
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shaunoplaceholder shouldn't act like that?10:29
diplonah the search issue is normally a javascript issue, I've started using placeholder to replace the one foobarry is seeing10:35
shaunoah gotcha .. I read it almost exactly the opposite :)10:42
diploThat would probably be my fault, not really with it today10:47
diplo:)10:47
foobarrywhen the last packet of crisps is cheese and onion :(12:10
zmoylan-pienglish cheese and onion crisps are 'orrible.  i prefer tayto...12:12
dogmatic69__oh man... http://www.thedailywtf.com/articles/version-logging12:27
dogmatic69__foobarry:  the best kind of crisps is anything that is not salt and vinegar.....12:28
foobarrydoes anyone know of a good personal alarm? wife wants one13:20
davmor2popey: just a quick review of my mifi. I was able to work with it Friday afternoon, Over the weekend it had 5 devices attached to it all worked slowly but worked. On Monday I caught the keynote and it stalled to cache twice.  Other than that steady speed that was faster up and down that the site wifi and kept me and my wife online for the whole weekend :)  Well spent £35 in my opinion :)13:31
davmor2popey: first proper use in the sticks :)13:32
zmoylan-pinext, how well it does in the boonies beyond the sticks...13:32
davmor2popey: signal strength bounced between 2-3 bars out of 513:32
davmor2zmoylan-pi: I only go to the sticks, ex quarry turned into a caravan park a long time ago :)13:33
popeynice!13:37
zmoylan-pihuddled around the mifi watching a youtube video in a caravan... :-P13:38
shaunoI guess if you're trapped in a caravan, it's either that or cook meth13:39
diddledanlol13:39
zmoylan-piall out of travel scrabble??13:39
shaunoI spent a weekend in a caravan once.  someone grabbed some CDs before we left.  when we got there, we discovered they'd managed to grab 3 singles.13:40
shaunothat was a looong weekend13:40
zmoylan-pihopefully one was proclaimers 500 miles... :-P13:41
diddledanhaha that's awesome!13:41
shauno1990's problems eh?  now I carry around 25,000 songs in my back pocket just in case13:42
davmor2shauno: they are a bit more modern nowadays they have tv's and everything :P13:45
zmoylan-piand the tvs have remotes which is weird as they're so close that you don't have to move to touch them... :-)13:46
shaunoit still feels a bit too much like camping in someone's front room for me13:47
davmor2zmoylan-pi: I'm tall but even I can't reach that far13:47
davmor2zmoylan-pi: http://www.caravanfinder.co.uk/touring-caravans-for-sale/adria-caravans/adria-altea-552-up-trent-1-caravan-2015-northamptonshire-tk0190c8213:49
shaunoif there was an award for "most british URL" ..13:50
davmor2shauno: it was the first site with decent images :)  The main adria one is basically just a plan :D13:51
shaunooh I don't even mean clicking it, just the URL itself :)13:52
zmoylan-piwe just need to get this picture onto it... :-) http://9gag.com/gag/a09vG6L/my-friend-probably-just-took-the-most-british-picture-ever13:53
davmor2shauno: there are worse trust me13:53
foobarryword for the day: tsundoku http://i.imgur.com/4rQX0Kn.jpg14:22
foobarrymy word is tsunsteamo14:22
foobarryaccumulating games on steam that you never play14:23
foobarrytsunjouki14:24
* bashrc has never used steam14:27
diploI really must play some games on my PC again at some point :)14:33
zmoylan-piinstalling linux on a system with uefi and secure boot counts as a game...15:41
shaunoA strange game.  The only winning move is not to play.15:43
bashrccan you turn uefi off?15:44
zmoylan-pi<would. you. like. to. play. a. game. of. chess.  doctor. falcon?>15:45
shaunoI think you can on some older stuff.  on newer machines, bios is a shim ontop of uefi instead of vice-versa15:45
zmoylan-piyou can turn uefi off for now and secure boot, but it's a pain if you want to dual boot with windows.  and in new systems it's probable you won't be able to turn off secure boot.15:46
bashrc:(15:46
zmoylan-piwindows 10 will tighten the noose on installing your own os15:46
shaunoI like efi, in theory.  it's just a bit bumpy finally ditching 30 years of backwards compatibility15:48
shaunoI mean, it really does seem a bit silly that a brand new PC wakes up "thinking" it's an 808815:49
zmoylan-piit's the only way to be sure it'll run ms flight simulator :-)15:50
zmoylan-piwith cga15:50
shaunothat's okay, we have X-Plane now :)15:51
popeyGWBASIC ftw15:52
zmoylan-pimy first pc basic...15:52
popeyI used to love it when we'd go in the computing "suite" and they'd not handed out the floppy disks yet15:52
popeyI'd turn the pc on and start coding15:52
zmoylan-piworking on single floppy computers, booting from one disk and then swapping to application disk and then saving to personal floppy...15:53
shaunoI could never got on with basic.  it just irked me15:54
zmoylan-pibasic is an awesome language.  it reminds me of perl :-)15:54
zmoylan-pitill ms got their mitts on it, cornered the market and killed it15:54
shaunoit just bugged me that you'd sit and bang away on the atari at home, then go to school and discover that it was all useless because everyone had their own dialect of basic15:56
zmoylan-piinstead of which everyone has their own version of libraries in any other language on different oses like now... :-)15:57
popeywhen I discovered in-line assembly in bbc basic.. that was an eye opener16:05
popeyBBC basic was so far ahead of the other 8-bit micros16:05
bashrcthat was always debated at the time16:06
shaunopeek and poke were my favourites.  mostly because on the atari, there were buttons that could only be read via peek, you could play/pause the tape deck with a poke, etc16:07
shaunoso it grabbed me that they could do something tangible16:07
shaunoI had a 'game' that tried to teach you french.  it'd load each lesson from the tape, and then there was audio between the lessons16:08
shaunoso it'd keep pausing and playing the tape to reel off the next audio16:08
shaunothat struck me as clever as hell, and led me to trawling through the listing figuring out how they did it:)16:09
shauno(back when the Break key was magic)16:12
popeyBEEP-BOOP!16:13
zmoylan-pithe bbc was sold at a loss initially.  that was why it was above and beyond all the rest.16:13
popeyI bumped into a friend in a pub some 10+ years after leaving school. He found some of my old spectrum games I'd written on tapes in his loft16:14
popeyI have since lost it all :(16:14
zmoylan-piis there a wikipedia page like doctor who lost tapes page for popeys tapes? :-)16:14
popeyhah16:15
Myrttido you think it's possible to do an intersection search on the electoral roll data and exclude people from the list that aren't eligble to vote in certain elections?16:51
MyrttiI find it somewhat offensive that I get mail from certain immigration phobic parties addressed to "Dear Voter" when I'm not eligible to vote, because I'm a non-naturalised immigrant16:51
zmoylan-piyou could ring them and with the heaviest accent you can put on ask for more information... :-P16:52
bashrcI think if you're resident in the UK for more than half the year then you should be allowed to vote, but that's just my opinion16:53
shaunothat'd seem logical to me - I think it should just follow taxation.  wherever I'm tax-resident I should be allowed representation16:55
shauno(which I believe it's very similar to the 50% rule - it's whichever country you spend the most time in)16:56
shaunoit's pretty funky here though - I'm elligible to vote, just not in elections16:56
shauno(but I won't, because I'm not elligible for a postal vote.  fun times)16:57
AzelphurHey folks, so I have a new router and I'm trying to set up my ISPs native IPv6, the info I have from my ISP is: IPv6 Address 2001:4d48:ad52:4800::/56     PTP Address 2001:4d48:ad00:5248::/64     Size 5616:58
AzelphurAnd my router has a lot of options: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/3832397/screenshots/2015/May/2015-05-05-175735_1294x1186_scrot.png not sure what to put where16:58
shaunohm, I think you're missing a detail there17:01
AzelphurMy old router works on IPv6 with no additional info afaik17:02
shaunoI think the first address (...480::) goes in lan setting, and 56 in the box below it17:03
shaunobut for the wan address, they've given you a network but not an address?  so .. not sure where you're supposed to pluck the gateway address from17:03
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Azelphurhttps://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/3832397/screenshots/2015/May/2015-05-05-180347_1556x1333_scrot.png is what I have in the old router, for reference17:04
diddledanthe lan subnet is the /56 and the wan ip is the /6417:08
diddledanso static ip....5248:: and 64 in the box for prefix17:08
shaunoyeah, that's how I read it too.  the 'routed' in one is the 'lan' in the other, the ad52 address, that's you17:08
Azelphurconfusion growing :P17:09
shaunoand the ad00/64 is the p2p17:09
diddledanAzelphur: wan ip is 2001:4d48:ad00:5248:: and the prefix is 6417:09
Azelphurok17:09
Azelphurany other boxes to fill in?17:10
diddledanAzelphur: lan ip is 2001:4d48:ad52:4800::1 and 56 in the prefix17:10
Azelphursweet :)17:10
diddledan(I just plucked the ::1 out of the air)17:10
Azelphurthe gateway is required17:10
diddledanyou can use whatever you want in the lan provided it's in the 2001:4d48:ad52:4800::/56 subnet17:10
Azelphurwon't let me submit the form without gateway17:10
Azelphurwhich is strange, because on my old router IPv6 gateway is blank and it has always worked17:11
shaunoI thought that part was meant to be magic17:12
diddledanthe old config is using an ip you didn't tell us about, namely 2001:4d48:ad00:5248::117:12
Azelphurwell I did tell you about it, I posted a screenshot of all settings :P17:13
shaunoI'd try using the same for the gateway but with ::217:13
Azelphurdiddledan: and yea I did tell you about that address in my initial question :P17:13
diddledanyeah try that17:13
shaunoI can't promise it'll work, but there's a chance they're just taking anything that comes down the line and not caring  lol17:13
diddledanyour initial question doesn't mention a ::1 address17:13
Azelphurit mentions a /64 block, I had someone help me set this up before given only the information that I gave you17:14
diddledanwell then they were psychic :-p17:15
Azelphurmust have been ;)17:15
Azelphurso um, anything for the gateway?17:15
shaunobut I think it's meant to just use one of the magic addresses, like ff01::217:15
Azelphurmaybe I can inspect the old router to get this information?17:15
AzelphurOld router is still here and I haven't changed anything17:15
diddledanyou can look in the booted-up routing table (route -n)17:16
diddledanmaybe `route -6 -n`17:16
Azelphurdiddledan: this reminds me of something the fellow told me to do that was bizarre17:17
diddledan:-D17:17
Azelphurip -6 route add default dev pppoe-wan17:17
Azelphurhad to run that on boot to get it to work17:17
diddledanhmm17:17
diddledanthat suggests it's just dumping down the pipe and not caring about where it's going17:18
shaunoon the new one or the old one?17:18
Azelphurshauno: old one17:18
shaunoI'm gonna stick with my ::2 advice until you prove it doesn't work then :)17:19
diddledanyup17:19
Azelphur::2 advice?17:19
Azelphurmust have missed that somewhere17:19
diddledanalternatively they want you to use ::2 and point the gateway at ::117:19
shaunowhere your wan IP is something::1, make their (gateway) IP thesame::217:19
Azelphur(18:09:44) diddledan: Azelphur: wan ip is 2001:4d48:ad00:5248:: and the prefix is 6417:20
shaunoI believe it doesn't actually matter what address it is, as long as your router believes it's someone else, thus shoves it down the wire17:20
Azelphurso change wan IP add a 1 on the end17:20
Azelphurand then same for gateway with a 2?17:20
Azelphurso that makes wan IPv6 address be 2001:4d48:ad00:5248::1 and wan IPv6 gateway 2001:4d48:ad00:5248::217:20
shaunobingo17:20
* Azelphur hits apply17:20
shauno(and if that doesn't work, wake MartijnVdS up ;)17:21
Azelphurlets see if it works :)17:23
Azelphurhmm, well it applied but test-ipv6.com fails17:25
shaunohow faily?17:26
Azelphur0/10 faily17:26
shauno(also, try host -6 google.com  see if you have DNS)17:26
shaunosince those boxes were kinda empty too17:26
shaunoer no, host -t AAAA google.com17:27
Azelphurhost -t AAAA works17:27
Azelphurshauno: can't ping google though :(17:33
shaunohm.  there goes my guess then17:34
Azelphurso yea, maybe next best bet is to plug old router in and do some analysis? if you have any ideas there17:34
shaunopossibly, but I suspect you don't have a gateway there either17:35
Azelphurbut the old one works17:36
AzelphurI could just phone up my ISPs tech support, they are pretty good17:36
shaunomight be worth a shot, I'm gonna be afk for 20 minutes anyway :)17:37
shaunojust an odd one because I don't thinnk you should actually require a gateway address on a p2p link17:38
shaunobut the web interface isn't giving you that option17:38
Azelphurshauno: maybe relevant? I'm set to Static IPv6 as connection type, I have no P2P option17:40
dogmatic69hi all, thought I would give 15.04 a go. got this instead... http://pastebin.com/ah6jKvRA21:45
dogmatic69any ideas21:46
diddledandogmatic69: you need to tell the relase upgrader that you want non-lts versions21:56
diddledandogmatic69: you'll need to go through 14.10 en-route tho21:56
diddledandogmatic69: looks like the config is in /etc/update-manager/release-upgrades (that's a file)22:02
diddledanspecifically the last line which reads "Prompt=lts" change the "lts" to "normal"22:03
dogmatic69diddledan: that was it22:03
dogmatic69dont care for lts tbh22:04
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ali1234how do i do 'for string in "AAA AAB AAC ... ZZZ"' in shell script?22:49
ali1234echo {A..Z}{A..Z}{A..Z}22:50
diddledanali1234: try `for string in $(seq AAA ZZZ)`22:51
ali1234seq: invalid floating point argument: AAA22:51
diddledanaww22:51
ali1234echo works though22:52
diddledanyeah manpage says seq is only numbers22:52
ali1234of course now i have the problem of how to escape it22:53
diddledanshell escaping "does me 'ead in"22:53
shaunowhy escape it?22:54
shauno(I mean, what's it going in, since bash will take it alone)22:55
ali1234for str in $(echo {A..Z}{A..Z}{A..Z}); do echo $str; done22:55
ali1234prints {A..Z}{A..Z}{A..Z}22:55
shaunoahh22:55
shaunofor foo in {A..Z}{A..Z}{A..Z} ; do echo $foo ; done22:55
shaunodon't overcomplicate it :)22:55
ali1234still prints {A..Z}{A..Z}{A..Z}22:55
shaunoreally?22:56
ali1234oh wait22:56
ali1234#!/bin/sh22:56
shaunoah, yeah, I think .. is specific to bash422:56
ali1234yeah that works, cheers22:56
ali1234/bin/bash works for me22:56
ali1234so this DECT modem thing takes commands in the form AT^C***22:57
ali1234so my plan is to just try every command and see which ones do stuff22:57
ali1234since they all appear to be vendor specific22:57
zmoylan-piati requests settings.  what those settings mean of course may vary... :-)22:58
shaunothat sounds like an interesting evening :)22:58
zmoylan-piat least if it's hayes compatible... :-)22:58
ali1234it's very much not22:58
ali1234i have so far figured out that when it rings you answer it by sending AT^CANS22:58
ali1234and hang up with AT^CRLS22:58
ali1234but you can't make it go off-hook with that command if it is not already rining22:59
diddledanis that ^C literal ^ followed by a C or a ctrl-c character?22:59
ali1234the device i ripped it out of doesn't appear to have the ability to initiate calls at all, so i can't sniff for it22:59
ali1234diddledan: it's a literal ^ and a literal C22:59
diddledandang22:59
diddledanwe're not in kansas anymore, toto23:00
ali1234so yeah, if i was the engineer making the commands i wouldn't leave out "go off hook" but the modem has three epoxy blobs on it so it is very much custom23:00
ali1234and technically it's not a modem, just a DTE controlled with custom AT commands on serial23:01
shaunowell, answer and release seem to be non-stupid mnemonics, so there's a little light at the end of the tunnel at least23:02
ali1234yep23:02
ali1234amusingly when it rings it does not "ring"23:02
ali1234the controlling MCU has to pick up the ring message and send AT^CTON=**,* to make it play a sound23:03
ali1234where **,* = ringtone number and volume23:03
ali1234you can make it do this at any time23:03
ali1234TONE = tone presumably23:03
ali1234and CRST resets it23:04
shaunoI have no idea why this reminds me, but once upon a time I discovered that there's a limit to how many times green-dot equipment can redial the same number23:04
ali1234green-dot?23:05
shaunoI don't remember the proper name.  some kind of certification that phone equipment has (had?) to be allowed on BT's network23:05
ali1234oh yeah23:06
ali1234i know exactly what you mean23:06
shaunousually shown by a green circle on the label23:06
shauno(remembering that pretty much everything I know about the UK is 15 years out of date  heh)23:06
ali1234yeah i haven't seen one of those stickers in years23:06
shaunothis one just sticks in my mind because the "troubleshooting" methodology I took before discovering this was terrible.  absolutely terrible.23:07
shaunowe had the freeserve deal where you paid a flat-rate for all you can eat.  so you didn't pay for calls, but freeserve hung up every 2 hours to stop you being me23:09
shaunosomeone yanked my line out so they could use the phone, and didn't plug it back in again.  and I have wvdial on a vicious loop to keep my internet up all night23:09
shaunoso when I woke up, it was refusing to dial out.  I can't remember the error it printed, but I went digging through wvdial's source for it, nadda23:10
shaunogrepped the kernel for it, nadda.  dumped most of potato's sources from CD onto the drive, nada23:10
shaunothough I'd try for a clean install to test there.  moved everything onto one drive.  picked the wrong drive during the install, and ended up with two clean drives23:10
shaunoeventually gave up, dragged the modem off to mum's machine to plead my favourite maillist for help.  and they told me to powercycle the modem23:11
ali1234ouch23:12
shaunoso that's how I found out that not only does BT have rules, but they're enforced on the equipment, even if it's not plugged into the line23:12
daftykinsO_O23:14
daftykinsa modem was disallowing you to reconnect after that 2hrs?23:14
shaunonot after 2 hour .. because the line was disconnected, it went into redialling as soon as the previous attempt gave up23:15
shaunoiirc wvdial gives up after a number of attempts, but I left it in a loop because I wanted my internet23:15
daftykins:D23:15
ali1234i think that happened to me once, back when you could get "engaged" on the ISP dial up line23:16
shaunoit ended up happening regularly because we had that bt answer-service thing that pulsed your dialtone to tell you there was a message waiting23:16
shaunowhich my modem totally didn't accept as being a dialtone23:16
ali1234fun times23:16
diddledanwe had that too23:16
diddledanI left my firewall doing redial attempts forever23:17
ali1234my plan, if i get this working, is to build an IVR box from a raspberry pi23:17
diddledanI was using smoothwall followed by ipcop23:17
ali1234and use it to confuse telemarketers23:17
shaunobut yeah.  when we say 90% of IT is using teh googles, they're not kidding.  I'll never forget 'troubleshooting' with nothing but the potato CDs23:17
ali1234the phone this came out of is really rubbish and doesn;t work right with any base station other than it's own23:18
shauno(or when I discovered man pages, trying to read them all, before realising they're not meant to be consumed like that)23:19
ali1234i was hoping that by accessing the modem directly i could fix that but it seems too proprietary23:19
daftykinswe had only 1p/min local dial-up or AOL :(23:19
daftykinsso i had to go to AOL23:19
ali12341p/min? luxury!23:19
daftykins:D23:19
ali1234we had 5.4p/min off peak and weekends, 12p/min daytime23:20
shaunowe had the choice between local-rate for 'free' or 15 quid a month for freephone access23:20
shaunoit didn't seem to matter which ISP, they were all in cahoots with BT23:20
daftykinshrmm23:20
ali1234"A" commands are done... only "ANS" seems valid23:22
shaunoyour script caught ANS though?23:23
ali1234yes the device helpfully tells you "ERROR: UNKNOWN" for actual unknown commands, or "ERROR: ILLEGAL" if the command just doesn't work *now*23:23
shaunothat's pretty optimistic then.  it sounds "feature-free" enough that you're not really expecting a long list23:24
ali1234ERROR: PARAMETER is also possible for the commands with = in them, but i am not scanning for those this time around23:24
ali1234it doesn't need a huge amount of commands23:25
ali1234all i need is "go off hook"23:25
ali1234i mean it's just a phone, no data is involved23:25
shaunohm, what if there isn't one?23:27
ali1234well i can still use it to get caller ID wirelessly23:27
ali1234and receive calls23:27
shaunojust thinking even if it does do outbound, it could be more "dial this number" than "pick up", "send these tones", etc23:28
ali1234that would be fine as well, easier even23:30
ali1234the unit is a digital photo frame that shows a picture of who is calling, it came with a base station and anormal handset as well23:31
ali1234the baseband radio is the same in all three, the photoframe has an extra chip that talks these AT commands23:31
ali1234all three have some kind of SPI interface which I could maybe reverse engineer23:31
ali1234but the baseband is certainly capable of making calls23:31
ali1234there is also an i2c eeprom, not sure what that is for, pin number/registration i guess23:32
shaunoI'm not sure I would have thought to turn a photoframe into an IVR :)23:36
ali1234well the modem part is on a daughterboard which is what makes me think it is capable of more23:36
ali1234the photoframe has a mic and speaker and can answer calls too23:37
ali1234all of that is on the daughterboard23:37
ali1234the main board is just a regular photoframe with this thing hanging off a serial port23:37
ali1234hmm... literally nothing in "B"23:38
shaunoI'm rooting for D :)23:42
ali1234"dial" command is probably going to want an "=" so i won't find it on this pass23:43
shaunohm, something for dtmf or digit would probably be similar then23:43

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