Tag Archives: RaspberryPi

Weather Station

Posted on 22 March 2020 by matthannan

So, out of the blue, my father emails me asking if Calin might enjoy a weather station. I figured he had an unused one that he found while cleaning out the house. I am fairly certain I have seen an unused weather station in that house before.… Read the rest

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Install Unifi Controller on Raspberry Pi in 5 Min [Step-By-Step]

Posted on 12 November 2019 by matthannan

Quick and easy guide to install the Unifi Controller on a Raspberry Pi. Get it up and running in 5 minutes. – Updated April 2019 –

Source: Install Unifi Controller on Raspberry Pi in 5 Min [Step-By-Step]

UniPi?
Ramping things up for the great migration from Verizon FiOS.… Read the rest

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Use Cloudflare as Dynamic DNS with Raspberry Pi

Posted on 19 October 2019 by matthannan

This guy is like my spirit animal.

Make Raspberry Pi automatically update a domain after your IP changes. Gain access to your home server from anywhere with Cloudflare as Dynamic DNS.

Source: Use Cloudflare as Dynamic DNS with Raspberry Pi – Let’s WP

I set this up in just a few minutes.… Read the rest

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How to Upgrade Raspbian Stretch to Raspbian Buster

Posted on 25 August 2019 by matthannan

It’s a relatively simple process.

Source: How to Upgrade Raspbian Stretch to Raspbian Buster

I think this, basically, a re-skin of the official HOWTO from the Raspberry Pi page, but this is what I just used on my main Pi.… Read the rest

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Raspberry Pi VPN Router w/ PIA – Novaspirit

Posted on 25 August 2019 by matthannan

This is something I’ve been using for awhile now, thought i would show you the entire process, This is a tutorial for setting up a raspberry pi vpn router.

Source: Raspberry Pi VPN Router w/ PIA – Novaspirit

Set this up late last night.… Read the rest

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Raspberry Pi: SD Card to SSD Drive, part 2

Posted on 11 August 2019 by matthannan

Oh, brother, has this been a mess. I’ve certainly relearned a great deal about Linux partitions and boot sectors and a bunch of other stuff that I used to know cold, but this process has beaten me.

This morning, after about a week of doing battle with this process, and several others, I’ve thrown in the towel and I am rebuilding from scratch.… Read the rest

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How to use Windows 10’s built-in OpenSSH to automatically SSH into a remote Linux machine

Posted on 4 August 2019 by matthannan

Source: How to use Windows 10’s built-in OpenSSH to automatically SSH into a remote Linux machine

Amazing how quickly things have changed! This is from January 2019, and it is already dated. Windows 10 now has ssh-copy-id. I am looking for a tutorial on just how to use that now, but the method used here does work.… Read the rest

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From the Real World to the Web

Posted on 9 April 2019 by matthannan

Part of my quest for world domination, er, getting my Raspberry Pi to tell me about things in my basement without my having to actually go down there is just about complete.

I bought a temperature and humidity sensor from Adafruit and finally got around to wiring it up and getting the Python code written to read it.… Read the rest

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rsyslog & LogAnalyzer, follow-up

Posted on 17 March 2019 by matthannan

Well, it has been a solid day watching these nagging log entries scroll by over and over again.

I just cleared up a cacti issue on Pi1 by determining that I was not actually using cacti for anything and removing it, along with the CRON job that was generating the log entry.… Read the rest

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rsyslog and LogAnalyzer

Posted on 16 March 2019 by matthannan

Continuing on in the Raspberry Pi as network server journey, I now have an rsyslog server (Pi1) collecting logs from the various networky things. I am using this Log Analyzer as the frontend. It was a royal PiTA to get working, but now that it is up, it was worth it.… Read the rest

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