Displaying Videos on ESP32 with a 128x64 OLED Display

4 Jun 2020

its not really a video in that sense but a sequence of images

Parts

Windows

Install Shortcut @powershell Invoke-WebRequest -Uri " " -OutFile " "
Install ImageMagic @powershell Invoke-WebRequest -Uri " " -OutFile " "
install mpfshell @powershell Invoke-WebRequest -Uri " " -OutFile " "
Open Shotcut > Video Mode (Click on Automatic)
Write OLED 128x64 in Name
Set Resolution to 128x64, Aspect to 2:1 and Frame rate to 10
now drop a video or gif into shotcut, you can now edit it
when your finished your edit, open export (ctrl+9) then Stock > Stills > PNG and save your file into a folder
now we run magick (imagemagic) in that folder you saved a sequence of png files
magick *.png -depth 16 seq%05d.pbm
mpfshell COM4 -n -c mput .*pbm (upload to ESP8266)

Quick & Easy: Enable Internet Connection Sharing in Windows 10

3 Jun 2020

why microsoft disabled the gui is beyond me, so here is a little script that enables support for ics via powershell

Download win10-ics
Run ics-setup.bat as Administrator
Run ics-start.bat and enter the network name you want to share the internet connection to (you can find this in Control Panel\Network and Internet\Network Connections)

20 May 2020

Install

sudo apt-get remove golang --purge
curl -LO https://get.golang.org/$(uname)/go_installer && chmod +x go_installer && ./go_installer && rm go_installer
source $HOME/.bash_profile

compile something

if you get process killed try

enable more swap if you have a 512MB VPS

20 May 2020

Server Setup

Get yourself a VPS at DigitalOcean
git clone https://github.com/nwgat/wg-quick-setup && cd wg-quick-setup
sh wg-quick-setup-auto.sh (automatic, opens firewall, configure routing)
sh wg-quick-setup-manual.sh(manually input the ip/domain and ethernet device)
sh wg-quick-setup-uninstall.sh (removes /etc/wireguard and wireguard/wireguard-tools packages)

Client Setup

Windows: Open Wireguard. Press Ctrl + N. Now Copy & Paste the client config output here
Linux: copy the client config output to /etc/wireguard/wg0.conf and starte wireguard with wg-quick up wg0

8 May 2020

sudo apt-get install git cmake gcc yasm build-essential autoconf libtool libfreetype-dev libfribidi-dev libfontconfig1-dev python libsdl2-2.0-0 libsdl2-dev libgnutls28-dev libva2 libva-dev vainfo libbluray-dev liblua5.3 liblua5.3-dev libdrm-dev libsdl2-dev libsdl2-mixer-dev libarchive-dev wayland-protocols libvdpau-dev libplacebo-dev libgdm-dev libluajit-5.1-dev -y
git clone https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv-build.git && cd mpv-build
./use-mpv-release
./use-ffmpeg-release
./rebuild -j8
sudo ./install
echo "hwdec=vaapi" > .config/mpv/mpv.conf
mpv http://distribution.bbb3d.renderfarming.net/video/mp4/bbb_sunflower_2160p_60fps_normal.mp4