Working with PowerShell & Multiple Azure Contexts

When working with multiple Azure subscriptions, the PowerShell Az.* modules allow for easy context switching. This means that you can run commands agains multiple subscriptions, or you can run commands against subscriptions without changing your default context. An Azure Context object contains information about the Account that was used to sign into Azure, the active (for that context) Azure Subscription, and an auth token cache is not actually empty, it just can't read from here for security reasons, though you can read it with the Get-AzAccessToken command. Here's what is in an Azure Context object: PS> Get-AzContext | fl * Name : TK-PRD (yyyyyyyy-yyyy-yyyy-yyyy-yyyyyyyyyyyy) - tim@timkennedy.net Account : tim@timkennedy.net Environment : AzureCloud Subscription : yyyyyyyy-yyyy-yyyy-yyyy-yyyyyyyyyyyy Tenant : zzzzzzzz-zzzz-zzzz-zzzz-zzzzzzzzzzzz TokenCache : VersionProfile : ExtendedProperties : {} If y
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pyTivo on Solaris 11.2

We are a TiVo household, so a quest has been underway to build a suitable place for long term storage of the family's favorite TV shows and movies. One indisputable requirement is that the shows and movies have to be visible via the TiVo menu. pyTivo (the William McBrine fork) is the logical tool to do this (in my house). William McBrine has been maintaining his fork of pyTivo more regularly than the original package (sourceforge).

To get pyTivo working on Solaris 11.2, only 2 dependencies needed to be resolved.
  • I needed to build ffmpeg to support on-the-fly video transcoding. and,
  • ffmpeg wanted yasm(an open source rewrite of the nasm assembler) or nasm itself.
This is what happened when I tried to build ffmpeg without yasm: 
bash-[121]$ ./configure --prefix=/usr/local
yasm/nasm not found or too old. Use --disable-yasm for a crippled build.

If you think configure made a mistake, make sure you are using the latest
version from Git.  If the latest version fails, report the problem to the
ffmpeg-user@ffmpeg.org mailing list or IRC #ffmpeg on irc.freenode.net.
Include the log file "config.log" produced by configure as this will help
solve the problem.


Both were very simple and straight forward to build and install:

  • Yasm
    • [tim@tank]-[117]$ ./configure --prefix=/usr/local
<snip>
[tim@tank]-[118]$ gmake -j4
<snip>
[tim@tank]-[119]$ sudo gmake install
<snip>
  • ffmpeg
    • [tim@tank]-[127]$ ./configure --prefix=/usr/local
<snip>
[tim@tank]-[128]$ gmake -j4
<snip>
[tim@tank]-[129]$ sudo gmake install
<snip>

Once ffmpeg was installed, I updated the pyTivo.conf file and set the location of the ffmpeg binary, and pyTivo worked beautifully after that.

[tim@tank]-[136]$ vim TIVO/pyTivo/pyTivo.conf
<snip>
# FFmpeg is a required tool but downloaded separately.  See pyTivo wiki 
# for help.
# Full path to ffmpeg including filename
# For windows: ffmpeg=C:\pyTivo\bin\ffmpeg.exe
# For linux:   ffmpeg=/usr/bin/ffmpeg
#ffmpeg=C:\pyTivo\bin\ffmpeg.exe
ffmpeg=/usr/local/bin/ffmpeg

<snip>

For more information on pyTivo, including installation, configuration, and other tasks outside the purpose of this post:

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