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Ekahau

Ekahau BSSID Logic Error

Problem Description A Post-Deployment survey is performed with the following equipment: * Survey app for iPad V3.5.1705-5cdf22a * Sidekick 2 Upon reviewing the collected data, some APs (Aruba in this specific scenario) appear with only a single 2.4 GHz radio and others are displayed with a single 2.4

3D printing

Prusa Connect RPi Camera via API

Intro Fluff I was using RPi 4 to drive my MK3S+ printers, using the PrusaLink image, one of the great features of PrusaLink is the native support for USB cameras. I upgraded my Prusa printers from MK3 to MK4, the surprise downside of the upgrade was that suddenly I had

Ekahau

Ekahau AI Pro Proxy issue

Fresh installation of Ekahau AI Pro on macOS, company issue laptop, running the usual pre-installed security software suite, including Zscaler. Ekahau installed fine However, attempting to launch ekahau throws an error. "There was a problem while connecting to Ekahau Cloud. Please check your internet connection. Contact helpdesk support in

workflow

Multiple Image import into Airtable

Step-by-step guide to batch import multiple images into Airtable. You would be correct in thinking that this should be easy... and it is, but it takes a couple of not immediately obvious steps. Create a new record for each image I am assuming you have a folder with several image

Microsoft

Find and Replace Soft Carriage Returns in MS Word

You have generated some output that is peppered with soft carriage returns. You want to remote the soft carriage returns from the document, so you can continue processing that text, moving it over into Excel or whatever it is you want to do with it.

Quickly Spin-up a Jupyter Notebook virtual environment

I did this, made it work, and then a week later I had to redo the research because I could not remember how to do it... (so, here we are) Steps to create a virtual environment, install jupyter notebook and use it Why? At the time of writing, I have

Apple

tvOS 17 TV volume adjustment via HDMI

Many moons ago, I wrote a blog article bemoaning the fact that I could not control the volume of my television from the Apple TV. Important distinction between the Apple TV remote and Apple TV unit. I always have my phone on me, I rarely have the Apple TV remote

Wi-Fi

Stitching screenshots together to create your map (automated)

Have you ever needed to create your own map / floor plan so that you can load it into your wireless survey tool of choice and get on with the actual work of investigating the Wi-Fi?

Apple

Upgrade ALL your Brew packages

Having slipped down the rabbit hole of attempting to install every application onto my mac using terminal via Homebrew or mas, I am now faced with the question of how do I update those applications?

Raspberry Pi

nOTG cable for the WLAN Pi M4

Workaround the missing OTG feature of the WLAN Pi M4! It is possible to deliver power and establish an Ethernet connection to the WLAN Pi from a single USB Type-C port from your laptop using a nOTG cable.

Ghost Blog

Ghost Blog: Reduce feature image size within posts

Setting a 'feature image' for a post is important if you want a preview image to appear on the home page (This is exactly what I wanted), but... unfortunately by default that 'feature image' will then appear full width at the top of your post. (This

Technology Muse

Kindle report an error: A surprisingly satisfying end-user experience

Sat on my sofa reading a technical manual (Aruba ACMA Study Guide by HPE Press). I notice a typo, it is small, insignificant, but! it jars me as I am pioneering my way through the book. I feel compelled to 'do something' about this innocuous error in the

macOS

Configure Global Finder View Settings

You had a rush of blood to the head, you edited (messed around with) the Finder view settings. You think you like the changes you made, but! horror of horrors when you open your next new Finder window, the changes are gone? Only when you return to that specific folder

macOS

Duplicate My Browser Tab

I want to duplicate my browser tab... quickly... using a keyboard shortcut, specifically without configuring a macOS specific application Menu Bar action shortcut. Try this: cmd + L to move focus to the address bar cmd + shift + return opens up the current address in a new tab

macOS

Toggle Autohide macOS Menu bar

This AppleScript will toggle (check / uncheck)  the box within System Preferences to: 'Automatically hide and show the menu bar on desktop' tell application "System Preferences" reveal pane id "com.apple.preference.dock" end tell delay 0.5 tell application "System Events" to

macOS

Zoom.us Meeting Mute State Displayed within your menu bar (where it should be)

Display useful information in your menubar To achieve this we will use an app called SwiftBar Homepage: https://swiftbar.app GitHub homepage: https://github.com/swiftbar/SwiftBar 1. Download latest version: https://github.com/swiftbar/SwiftBar/releases/latest 2. Choose your desired plugins folder location 3. Download the Zoom.us

3D printing

3D Design/Printed Wall Bracket for the Virgin Media Super Hub 3

The Mission Attach my ‘Virgin Media SuperHub 3’ DOCSIS modem to the wall without admitting defeat and simply installing a horizontal shelf for it to sit on. The Wordy Intro Whilst the physical design of the Virgin Media Super Hub is reasonably attractive, upon closer inspection it quickly becomes apparent

macOS

Print to PDF on macOS

Why the hell would I even want to do that? At the time of writing, on the mac App Store there is a small, relatively inoffensive app called PDF Printer Lite. The premise is simple this application creates a system recognised printer, when this ‘virtual’ printer receives a print job

WLAN Pi animated product video

Availability Trailer To mark the ‘return’ of the WLAN Pi to availability* within the badgerwifi.co.uk store, I created this animated product video. It all started as a relatively simple modelling project in Fusion 360 to enable the production of WLAN Pi ‘stock photograph’ style imagery. As with most

3D printing

ScreenRig for the LG UltraFine 5K Display

Long story short I needed to mount a "DSLR"* camera above my LG 5K UltraFine Monitor. The "DSLR"* camera will act as a high-quality webcam and is correctly positioned for the creation of video training material and joining Zoom calls. If you own an LG UltraFine

macOS

macOS secure input mode

Make it Visible What is it? macOS has this 'thing' / feature called secure input mode, it makes good sense, if the OS determines that you are inputting potentially sensitive data, secure input mode kicks in and prevents ALL keystroke monitoring, even from applications you have explicitly given permission

Professional

Prevent that pop-up toolbar from popping in Google Slides

I using Google Slides as my presentation tool of choice! Mostly for reasons related to the full screen application behaviour, however at the time of writing, I am using Google Slides in "windowed" mode during the creation of training videos. The pop-up toolbar in the lower left-hand corner

3D printing

Prusa Mini, M3 socket cap bolt and nut recess and clearance

M3 socket cap bolt and nut Dimensions I have found to work when 3D printing with a Prusa Mini, PETG

Professional

Type Faster

Introductory fluff It seems crazy that when I was at school, I disliked typing things out, so I wasted time trying to use dictation and bla bla bla. In 2019 the ability of the tech is now pretty good, but I still think that dictation is not the future (at

Professional

Hidden Node Podcast

In late 2019, Joel Crane @Potato_Fi and I decided to start recording a podcast. TLDR Hidden Node Podcast, two guys talking tech, 3D printing, prototyping, soldering, fintech, Wi-Fi, almost anything goes. Listen to an episode, or... grab the link to your preferred Podcast app from: https://hiddennode.buzzsprout.com