Twinkly and Apple Home

When you add Twinkly lights to an Apple Home automation and use an effect, you need to add the light/scene when it is in the effects mode, turn off the lights in the Twinkly app, and then add the light/scene to the automation.

Then you will see “turn on

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instead of “100%“… which some random color!

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ffmpeg chapters in mp4

It is possible to create chapters in an mp4 file as described here.

If you create video in Camtasia 9, you can generate a HTML viewer of your file… but sections in generated in Camtasia are NOT stored into the mp4 file as chapters.

The following python script can help generate that (it require ffmpeg):

python parseXML.py <folderWithCaptasiaOutput> <TotalLengthOfVideo>

Read more details in the script.

Chapters in the produced mp4 file