Week #751
It was yet another short week because Friday was the 🧨🇺🇸 4th of July in the USA. That meant things were quiet for those projects and we could catch-up a bit on some Australia work.
We continue to work on the WebRTC project. This week was less about the actual WebRTC and instead just about a web socket to ‘broadcast’ to the other attendees metadata info. Who’s muted, playback and timecode. This all works and is hooked-up to other events.
This week we relocated the office to the Canary Islands for some much needed sun. We took along the IR filter for the camera and have been taking some photos around town. The sun is VERY bright, so the IR is pretty intense. It also means a decent shutter speed compared to Iceland.
The place we’re staying at does not have free WiFi. It doesn’t cost much, but it’s still an inconvenience and they meter it by the number of devices. We didn’t even consider this, so when we’re back at the main office, we’re going to do a few experiments. MacOS lets you share one connection via another. What you can’t do is share the same connection both incoming and outgoing. For instance, you can’t have all your devices connect to your laptop via the WiFi, then also use your laptop’s WiFi to connect to the internet. But if you have two WiFi adapters, then it’s possible. We’re sure in the bottom of some cable draw we have a $5 UBC-A WiFi adapter. We’ll test it at home and add that to the travel tech kit for the future!
Week #752
After a review of the WebRTC project status, our next major focus will be to get it working on tvOS! The library we’re using is not built for tvOS by default, but it seems others have managed, so we’re following their steps in the hope we can get it to work. We broke it down into three main tasks, get the library compiling as is (done), then update the source and target tvOS, then update the tvOS app to look for an external continuity camera as the video source.
On Tuesday, we sent out our Q3 Quarternotes newsletter. Annoyingly, this time, when we sent it, as it was going out, our bulk mail provider decided to rate limit us and dropped a bunch of messages. After the script finished, we had to go to their logs, find out who already received the message, and re-send the email (minus those who already got it) with a few seconds delay between each message. What should have been a quick task ate up most of the morning!
Bric-à-brac
| Location | Lat/Lon | Sunlight per Year |
|---|---|---|
| South Airport (Tenerife) | 28.044444;-16.5725 | ~2,670 hours |
| Reykjavik | 64.13548;-21.89541 | ~1,330 hours |