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Klikaan Klikuit, RFXcom and Raspberry Pi made simple

When I got my RFXcom I spend multiple hours to figure out how to use it together with my klikaan klikuit (KAKU) 433 MHz devices. In the end it appeared to be very, very simple.

Send a message to your KAKU device in python 3:

import serial
message = '0B11000200AAD51E09010F70'
serial_device = '/dev/ttyUSB0'
serial_rate = 38400
serial_timeout = 9
port = serial.Serial(serial_device, serial_rate, timeout=serial_timeout)
port.write(bytes.fromhex(message))

On a windows PC serial_device should be something like ‘COM4’. Continue reading “Klikaan Klikuit, RFXcom and Raspberry Pi made simple”

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Rolling Stone’s 500 greatest albums of all time in Spotify

In September 2020 Rolling Stone magazine published a list with the 500 greatest albums of all time. The list was created by artists, producers, critics, and people from the music industry.

On a lazy afternoon I made a script that creates a sortable list of these albums with links to Spotify. This is the only list you need if you want to explore new music. Sorry, I meant old music of course. There’s a histogram of release years at the bottom. The albums are predominantly from a few decades ago.

Thanks to the developers of spotipy. Enjoy! Continue reading “Rolling Stone’s 500 greatest albums of all time in Spotify”