Victor Biederbeck jamesbiederbeck

Steam Deck Notes

Running scripts in Gaming mode easily

This became its own writeup: https://gist.github.com/pudquick/981a3e495ffb5badc38e34d754873eb5

Artwork on non-Steam games

There's several different kinds of art that can be configured for an entry. The only real place to configure them all is from Desktop mode, not Game mode.

Use your Debian System as an iBeacon for Home Automation

Introduction

I have been playing with using the https://Home-Assistant.io system at home to play with Home Automation.

One thing I've found is that the Raspberry Pi is perfect for quite a few of the monitoring things that I wanted it to do (see also https://github.com/JonTheNiceGuy/home-assistant-configs for more details of what I'm doing there!).

I'm using the http://OwnTracks.org application to talk to an MQTT server, but I could also do with it knowing where I am in the house, so I looked around for some details on iBeacons.

iBeacon is an Apple standard, but it's very easy to configure on Linux systems. I took some pointers from this article and wrote up this script. When I later went to deploy this on another system, I also needed a pointer from [this PDF](https://cdn-learn.adafruit.com/downloads/pdf/pibeacon-ib

	-- 1. Place in ~/Library/Scripts and enable the Applescript menu via the Applescript Editor
	-- 2. Substitute "vpn.example.com" and "redacted" for your VPN server and password
	-- 3. Open Security & Privacy System Preferences, go to Privacy, Accessibility
	-- 4. Enable Applescript Editor and System UI Server
	-- 5. Trigger script from the menu
	-- 6. Enjoy being connected

	tell application "Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client"
	activate
	end tell