The Baffled Architect – Page 4 – Every day is a school day

Knulli Bluetooth controller

Anbernic RG35XX H with 8Bitdo SN30 Pro Bluetooth was a bit of trial and error but got an external controller configured with Knulli.

Power on the SN30 Pro in “Windows” mode (hold Y + Start) then hold the pairing button for 3s.

In Knulli, open the menu: Controller & Bluetooth Settings > Enable Bluetooth > Pair Bluetooth Pads Automatically.

Once detected, if the controller is not responsive then you’re in a mode other than Windows.

From Controller Mapping select OK on the warning then hold any key on the SN30 Pro. Configure the keys and set either the Function key as either Star or Home on the SN30 Pro.

You’ll need then to set the active controller to SN30 Pro as P1 (or P2) controller with Controller & Bluetooth Settings > P1.

It’s not perfect but more than good enough to play games with the device connected to HDMI, which is pretty handy for a short sighted old fart.

Update Plesk Docker Images

Howto Linux Plesk Ubuntu

Docker > Settings > Overview > Recreate, making sure that “Reset variable to default” is not checked.

Finally start.

Multipass cloud-init

AWS CDK Coding Linux Python Ubuntu

Multipass is pretty useful but what a pain this was to figure out, due to Ubuntu’s Node.js package not working with AWS-CDK.

Multipass lets you manage VM in Ubuntu and can take cloud-init scripts as a parameter. I wanted an Ubuntu LTS instance with AWS CDK, which needs Node.js and python3-venv.

#cloud-config
packages:
  - python3-venv
  - unzip

package_update: true

package_upgrade: true

write_files:
  - path: "/etc/environment"
    append: true
    content: |
      export PATH=\
      /opt/node-v20.11.1-linux-x64/bin:\
      /usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:\
      /usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:\
      /usr/games:/usr/local/games:\
      /snap/bin

runcmd:
  - wget https://nodejs.org/dist/v20.11.1/node-v20.11.1-linux-x64.tar.xz 
  - tar xvf node-v20.11.1-linux-x64.tar.xz -C /opt
  - export PATH=/opt/node-v20.11.1-linux-x64/bin:$PATH
  - npm install -g npm@latest
  - npm install -g aws-cdk
  - git config --system user.name "Dougie Richardson"
  - git config --system user.email "xx@xxxxxxxxx.com"
  - git config --system init.defaultBranch main
  - wget https://awscli.amazonaws.com/awscli-exe-linux-x86_64.zip
  - unzip awscli-exe-linux-x86_64.zip
  - ./aws/install

Save that as cdk.yaml and spin up an new instance:

multipass launch --name cdk --cloud-init cdk.yaml

There’s a couple useful things to note if you’re checking this out:

Inside the VM there’s a useful log to assist debugging /var/log/cloud-init-output.log.
While YAML has lots of ways to split text over multiple lines, when you don’t want space use a backslash.

Shell into the new VM with multipass shell cdk, then we can configure programmatic access and bootstrap CDK.

aws sso configure
aws sso login --profile profile_name
aws sts get-caller-identity --profile profile_name
aws configure get region --profile profile_name

The last two commands give the account and region to bootstrap:

cdk bootstrap aws://account_number/region --profile profile_name