Hackaday links: September 11, 2012

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Xbee sensors at Lowe's? Lowe's, the home improvement big box store, is selling some home automation items which might be Xbee compatible. They're being sold under the brand name Iris. There is some debate as to whether they're Xbee, or just 802.15.4 hardware. Either way they might be worth checking out for your wireless projects. Father sword replica from Conan the … [Read more...]

NAS-based transcoding facilitates security cam viewing on iPhone

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[Zitt] has a security camera which will send him messages any time it detects motion. However annoying this might seem, we're sure he has his reasons for needing this much immediate feedback. The real problem comes when he goes to view the feed on his iPhone. His solution is to turn the camera's notifications off, and use his own script to transcode a clip and shoot off an email. As you can see … [Read more...]

LG TV hacking via serial connection or IR codes

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[Brendan Robert] has been sending us forum thread links outlining the things he's learned while hacking LG televisions. They were a bit hard to follow for the uninitiated, so we asked if he could give us an overview of what he's been working on. Not only did he do that, but he made a little Hackaday shout-out seen above by adding the skull and cross-wrenches as one of the menu overlays. He's … [Read more...]

Add USB playback to some European LG televisions

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Here's a pretty simple hack to enable playback from a USB drive on LG televisions. It only works on European hardware, the LH, LF, and some LU models. The hack consists of downgrading the firmware to version 3.15, then navigating through some service menus. It's not quite as hardcore as the Samsung firmware hacking, but the added functionality is really great. [Thanks Jeton] … [Read more...]