PDFtk on CentOS 7
I recently migrated my website to a new Bluehost account. This broke some PHP scripts that used PDFtk as described previously on this blog. It took some searching but found…
Vera Logs
Go to Settings - Logs - and Enable the Verbose Logging and Lock Log Levels. Once that is enabled, you can SSH into the unit and try tail -f /tmp/log/cmh/LuaUPnP.log…
Excel Weigand Formula
Proximity cards are often encoded with Weigand formats. When importing to various access control software you need to understand how to format the data. This example is for the Alarm…
Customizing Your Vera Controller
Vera makes fully customizable smart home controllers. There are a few different models with different features. For developers there is limited and outdated documentation on creating your own user interface.…
Discover Dynamic IP Addresses
Sometimes you add a device to a local area network but don't know the IP address given by the DHCP server. This batch script has helped me find the device…
PowerShell Script to Split Large Text File by Line
I had a large SQL file (73MB) that bogged down evey text editor I had available to me on my Windows machine. I knew I needed a particular line from…
Adding PDFtk to Bluehost
I recently upgraded my Bluehost account. The new server did not have PDFtk Server installed which broke a few of my PHP scripts that filled and flattened PDF forms using…
JavaScript Code 3 of 9 Barcode
I needed to add a Code 3 of 9 barcode to a ASP.NET page. Possible solutions are to use a True Type barcode font, a dynamic image created by PHP…
Windows 10 Anniversary Update & VirtualBox
VirtualBox will not load after Windows 10 Anniversary update. Error in supR3HardenedWinReSpawn and references the NTDLL.dll version. The only solution I found was to install latest VirtualBox test build available…
Windows 10 VirtualBox Host
I am sick of Microsoft bugging me to upgrade to Windows 10! Finally capitulated with reservations that VirtualBox would not work afterwards. Sure enough the guest will not load. Upgraded…