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Archives for June 2019

OBS Source Is A Red Dot

If you’re adding a media source (RTMP, RTSP or HLS) in OBS and all you’re getting is a red dot, here’s a quick fix.

For Windows, hit Control-F.
For Mac OS, hit Command-F.

Google SDK Update

How to upgrade Google SDK on Redhat, Fedora and Centos Linux.

gcloud components update

If you are having trouble running that command because the GCloud component manager is disabled, you can try the following commands which will achieve the same result as above.

sudo yum makecache && sudo yum update \
kubectl \
google-cloud-sdk \
google-cloud-sdk-app-engine-grpc \
google-cloud-sdk-pubsub-emulator \
google-cloud-sdk-app-engine-go \
google-cloud-sdk-cloud-build-local \
google-cloud-sdk-datastore-emulator \
google-cloud-sdk-app-engine-python \
google-cloud-sdk-cbt \
google-cloud-sdk-bigtable-emulator \
google-cloud-sdk-datalab \
google-cloud-sdk-app-engine-java

Calculate Epoch Time to Date

Here’s how to calculate epoch time using the Linux date command.

# Linux
date --date @1561266781
date -d @1561266781
# MacOS
date -r 1561266781

Output is : Sun Jun 23 05:13:01 UTC 2019

Show current epoch time.

date +%s

Output: 1561642643

AWS CLI Restore Object from S3 Glacier

How to restore an object from Amazon S3 Glacier via the AWS CLI.

aws s3api restore-object \
--bucket awsexamplebucket \
--key dir1/example.obj \
--restore-request '{"Days":25,"GlacierJobParameters":{"Tier":"Standard"}}'

AWS LightSail Create Instance

How to create a LightSail instance from a snapshot via AWS CLI.

aws lightsail create-instances-from-snapshot \
--instance-names your-server-name \
--availability-zone us-east-1a \
--instance-snapshot-name your-snapshot \
--bundle-id nano_1_0 \
--key-pair-name your-key-pair