The ESP32 can provide the functionality of a Webserver. There are plenty of examples where this functionality is used to provide a GUI to control the Microcontroller or to provide information from it. What all have in common: they is very basic and often plain ugly. Therefore the question is, Read more…
The ESP32 provides a Bluetooth A2DP API that receives sound data e.g. from your Mobile Phone and makes it available via a callback method. The output is a PCM data stream decoded from SBC format. The documentation can be found here. I2S is an electrical serial bus interface standard used Read more…
The simplest way to stream music from a Raspberry PI to an external amplifier is to connect the headphone jack to the AUX Input of the amplifier with the help of a corresponding connector cable. From a quality point of view a better approach is to use an external Digital Read more…
When I moved to my new place in the beautiful canton of Valais – I did not re-activate my old Turntable and Amplifier and just left them in a corder. Today I decided to reactivate my devices again but to my disappointment I could hear only some scratching sounds form Read more…
I am currently working on a new project which uses Vue.js on the frontend and JAX-RS Webservices implemented in Java in the backend. Both, the frontend and the backend will be deployed with Docker. The solution will need to manage customers, users and provide authentication to protect the web application Read more…
In Docker you expose functionality by specifying a port mapping and then you can address the application on the physical host with the mapped port. I am using Docker quite some time now and this was getting a little bit too tedious because each mapped port needs to be unique Read more…
My main Docker deployments are on a single linux server. I have a central ‘data’ directory where I keep my common data. The application specific data or settings are stored in /srv/. But for testing or demos I am usually using local Docker installations on my McBook or McBook Air Read more…
I decided to build a repository of news headlines: I loaded all ‘New York Times’ headlines since the year 2000 and all Business related news from the ‘Guardian’ into the Solr Search engine. It has never been the intention to process all documents in one run but the goal was Read more…
I decided to build a repository of news headlines: I loaded all ‘New York Times’ headlines since the year 2000 and all Business related News from the ‘Guardian’ into a Sorl Search engine. More details can be found in my prior blog. It has never been the intention to process Read more…
Initially I used the Solr standard settings but with a big amout of data, I was running out of heap space. Fortunatly it is possible to define the heap space with the SOLR_HEAP environment variable. If you also don’t want to risk to loose your data you should also map Read more…