{"id":1221,"date":"2019-02-24T09:30:58","date_gmt":"2019-02-24T16:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/canadiangeek.net\/?p=1221"},"modified":"2019-06-20T09:35:12","modified_gmt":"2019-06-20T16:35:12","slug":"garage-entertainment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadiangeek.net\/?p=1221","title":{"rendered":"Garage Entertainment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The garage has had a TV for a while now but finding something to watch in the garage takes away from valuable project time.  I now have a Top Gear button.  Pressing on the big green button will send an MQTT message that my server will then parse, select a random episode of Top Gear, turn the TV on if its not already on, switch it to the kodi input and start playing that random episode.  There are also smaller buttons for the Simpsons and Futurama episodes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"498\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/canadiangeek.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/20190224_154755-e1561048397514-498x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1222\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadiangeek.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/20190224_154755-e1561048397514-498x1024.jpg 498w, https:\/\/canadiangeek.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/20190224_154755-e1561048397514-146x300.jpg 146w, https:\/\/canadiangeek.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/20190224_154755-e1561048397514-768x1580.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadiangeek.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/20190224_154755-e1561048397514.jpg 1960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 498px) 100vw, 498px\" \/><figcaption>I had trouble with the small buttons sticking once filled with dust.  So i glued on small brass knobs so i can pull the button back out if it gets stuck.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The garage has had a TV for a while now but finding something to watch in the garage takes away from valuable project time. I now have a Top Gear button. Pressing on the big green button will send an MQTT message that my server will then parse, select a random episode of Top Gear, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadiangeek.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadiangeek.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadiangeek.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadiangeek.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadiangeek.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1221"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadiangeek.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1223,"href":"https:\/\/canadiangeek.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1221\/revisions\/1223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadiangeek.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadiangeek.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadiangeek.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}