Category: Automation

Its past 512 published articles but that’s how it goes. I don’t think the site is gaining in popularity but I’ve been adding more Python articles to the blog. Initially there was a lot of visits for OpenMaint but that has dropped off, and I’m getting more visits for AutoHotKey v1 to v2 in VS

I am thinking about writing a book on Python scripting. I started to tinker with Text To Speech from PDF with python scripts and then looked at reversing the process from Speech to Text. There was a video on it so I found one and fossiked on my mobile for an Audi Recorder to create

This video is a follow on from:Python Future prices, WITS API & My Electricity Bill-https://youtu.be/ZkVWFVpS9wEPython Remote Trigger from subdomain on Website -https://youtu.be/tJwL5M_wGvMPython Live Transit Data on Map on Web Subdomain -https://youtu.be/Lt4LdtpVTfg Objective of project I wanted to show dynamic chart of electricity prices on a webpage and be able to update the data as required.I

A rather long video but I wanted to display a map from a Flask App in a subdomain on the web. The map shows the transit route of a bus for Metlink in Wellington NZ and uses the General Transit Feed Specification structure for its API. On the map it shows the route of the

Following on from the Python Remote Trigger Scripts at variable User Selected Times video where I did a button from a IP address website, I wanted to create a website on a SUBDOMAIN of one of my existing Domains.In this video I show how to set it up for Windows Server IIS so that it

I’ve got some automations, such as getting daily electricity Spot Prices emailed to myself on a PDF chart sent to me at specified times, in this case daily at 6am using Task Scheduler on the server to run scripts at the specified time. I wanted to be able to run them at a time of

I have been doing work on my bespoke Epherems data using either Python libraries or API’s to fetch the data, so I thought I’d explore getting web data via web scraping process. This is not something I’m keen on as I’ve had a lot of frustrations with the method in the past, but thought it

This is the next part of daily download data via email, to do with tides on the beach that I regularly walk the dog. Using Bing crosby (aka Bing Chat) to find the solution This was a bit of a challenge as I was doing an experiment with Bing Crosby (aka Bing Chat) to see

This one is a bit backwards. My first focus was on automating a URL link with a python script and /or a image/logo/watermark that can be positioned where you specifically want on a page. This ended up not being as easy as I’d initially thought. fpdf library for creating url & image links in new

After earlier video on process creating Epheremis I wanted to do a sky map that would show the positions of the planets so that it was easily visualised, so I used the astroplan library and created a plot and after earlier only plotting one row of data from my Epheremis CSV I ended up plotting