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| The general form of the concatenate command for [MP4Box](https://gpac.wp.imt.fr/mp4box/ "MP4Box") is: `MP4Box -add <filename>.ext -cat <filename>.ext output.ext`1 When you have more than a couple of output files, you’re going to want to automate that `-cat` part as much as possible because let’s face it, writing … | https://www.ryancheley.com/2018/02/08/using-mp4box-to-concatenate-many-h264-files-into-one-mp4-file/ | 2018-02-08 |
| In my last [post](/using-mp4box-to-concatenate-many-h264-files-into-one- mp4-file.html) I wrote out the steps that I was going to use to turn a ton of `.h264` files into one `mp4` file with the use of `MP4Box`. Before outlining my steps I said, “The method below works but I’m sure that there is a better … | https://www.ryancheley.com/2018/02/10/using-mp4box-to-concatenate-many-h264-files-into-one-mp4-file-revisited/ | 2018-02-10 |
| I [previously wrote](/using-mp4box-to-concatenate-many-h264-files-into-one- mp4-file-revisited.html) about how I placed my Raspberry Pi above my hummingbird feeder and added a camera to it to capture video. Well, the day has finally come where I’ve been able to put my video of it up on [YouTube](https://youtu.be/_oNlhrZJ-0Y)! It’s totally silly, but it was … | https://www.ryancheley.com/2018/04/05/hummingbird-video-capture/ | 2018-04-05 |
| I’ve mentioned before that I have been working on getting the hummingbird video upload automated. Each time I thought I had it, and each time I was wrong. For some reason I could run it from the command line without issue, but when the cronjob would try and run … | https://www.ryancheley.com/2018/04/10/cronjob-finally/ | 2018-04-10 |
| After **days** of trying to figure this out, I finally got the video to upload via a cronjob. There were 2 issues. ## Issue the first Finally found the issue. [Original script from YouTube developers guide](https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/guides/uploading_a_video)had this: CLIENT_SECRETS_FILE = "client_secrets.json" And then a couple of lines later, this: % os.path … | https://www.ryancheley.com/2018/04/20/cronjob-redux/ | 2018-04-20 |
| Several weeks ago in [Cronjob Redux](/cronjob-redux.html) I wrote that I had _finally_ gotten Cron to automate the entire process of compiling the `h264` files into an `mp4` and uploading it to [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com). I hadn’t. And it took the better part of the last 2 weeks to figure out what … | https://www.ryancheley.com/2018/05/02/automating-the-hummingbird-video-upload-to-youtube-or-how-i-finally-got-cron-to-do-what-i-needed-it-to-do-but-in-the-ugliest-way-possible/ | 2018-05-02 |
| Last spring I set up a Raspberry Pi to record humming birds at my hummingbird feeder, compile the recorded h264 files into an mp4 and upload it to YouTube. I’ve written about that process before here, here, and here. This post is a bit of documentation to remind myself … | https://www.ryancheley.com/2018/11/10/the-pir-sensor/ | 2018-11-10 |
| Over the long holiday weekend I had the opportunity to play around a bit with some of my Raspberry Pi scripts and try to do some fine tuning. I mostly failed in getting anything to run better, but I did discover that not having my code in version control was … | https://www.ryancheley.com/2018/11/25/adding-my-raspberry-pi-project-code-to-github/ | 2018-11-25 |
| In late April of this year I wrote a script that would capture the temperature of the Raspberry Pi that sits above my Hummingbird feeder and log it to a file. It’s a straight forward enough script that captures the date, time and temperature as given by the internal … | https://www.ryancheley.com/2018/12/04/monitoring-the-temperature-of-my-raspberry-pi-camera/ | 2018-12-04 |
| As the temperature heats up it’s time to take down my hummingbird feeder. While the winds have cooled down the valley for the last few days, 100+ days are slowly creeping in and I need to take it down before the CPU melts. When I took it down last … | https://www.ryancheley.com/2019/06/23/taking-down-the-rpi-camera-over-my-hummingbird-feeder/ | 2019-06-23 |
| I have THREE raspberry pi's that I bought 7+ years ago now. And they still work as well today as they did then. They really are amazing little machines. Over their lifetimes their uses have evolved, but I wanted to just write down some quick thoughts on what I do … | https://www.ryancheley.com/2025/02/26/raspbery-pis/ | 2025-02-26 |