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I wrote a long winded guide to this in a previous post, but I've since though of a better way if you already have you onboard WiFi adaptor connected to your network. You also don't need an ethernet connection and can be running headless, simply head over to this directory: cd /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections ls -l you should   more »

Install & testing First we have to set up some folders and download and install filebrowser (change the ip address to that of your rpi and a port of your choosing): cd /opt sudo mkdir filebrowser cd filebrowser curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/filebrowser/get/master/get.sh | bash sudo filebrowser -r /opt/filebrowser -a 192.168.0.10   more »

Update There's a quicker way if you are running headless and/or already have your Pi connected via WiFi Recently been researching USB WiFi adaptors a for my Pi3 given I just installed a PCIe Intel 8290 on my Lenovo Thinkstation M93a and I'm getting a whopping 780Mb/s connection through my WiFi broadband router. I'm also running out of ethernet   more »

Whenever you read on the internet of how to connect to other devices on your home network using a hostname instead of an IP address when they the machine doesn't broadcast it, you generally get the following two answers: add an entry to your hosts file manually yourself configure your router to send out the name. There's a couple of issues   more »

I don't know if this is related to the other issue I was having with my mailbox not being found which I fixed in the other blog post, but after installing postfix: sudo apt install postfix and correctly configuring the SMTP relay, I could send email using the sendmail function: sendmail youremail@gmail.com Subject: testing does it work! . but   more »

Just installed and configured postfix and mutt on a fresh copy of Raspberry Pi OS Lite, sending of mail was fine but I was having issues with mutt. Don't know whether it was related to my other issue here, but mutt opens but I get the error: Cannot open mailbox /var/mail/pi: No such file or directory Very annoying, its never happened to me   more »

So you want to rig up your Raspberry Pi OSMC to be controlled by your favourite remote control, easy peasy - it is just a matter of plugging the IR receiver diode in and swith GPIO on in the settings. Dont like the standard pins 17 or 18, no problem - you can change them at teh same time, just follow these instructions. Go to 'My OSMC, Select 'Pi   more »

If you've ever plugged a Raspberry Pi into a tv you've probably come across this issue - the displayed image either doesn't fill the screen or over-runs it. The usual bit of googling reveals that all you have to do is tweak a couple of overscan settings and you are good to go. It sounds easy but three Raspberry Pis in and I've only just found the   more »

First up I'm sorry about bathering on about this SSH thing but I to be honest I'm padding out the blog posts a little bit as there's one article I've written that I'm just not sure I want to publish, It's nothing bad, just not in keeping with the tone of this site so I've racked it up at the end of the post ready to go and keep adding posts in   more »

My dream RaspberryPi project that I am slowly chipping away at is to create the ultimate alarm clock. It is a slow burner though as at it's inception I had none of the skills I needed to pull it off. I've now amassed all of the technical skills to pull it off and I'm just left with finalising the design and finding the time and the parts (not a   more »

I'm always one for saving a bit of money and many years ago I came up with the plan that I could save a lot of money in printing costs if I didn't own a printer. It is a great idea, you'd be suprised at how much unnecessary printing you get up to and there's always the kick in the teeth of inkjet printer ink being more expensive than   more »

Probably heavily linked with my inner analyst, for a while now I've wanted to create some real-time graphing of some of my raspberry pi stats. I've had a couple of stabs at it but getting it to actually work has eluded me until now. The below example guides you through how to plot your CPU temp as a graph to an image file, the code is in my github   more »

As a follow up from my ealier post introducing my twitter bot I thought I'd tell you how I did it and how to set one up on you own RaspberryPi or other Linux server. How it works It's not that tricky when you think it through, it is just hooking a few existing processes together to create your working bot. The only real tricky part for me was that   more »

The new website has now gone live. With the acquisition of my Raspberry Pi comes a whole host of possibilities. My Pi is currently running as the server for this website. Unfortunately the Pi is not powerful engough to run Wordpress or Joomla (who'd of thought they were processor intensive) - it does run, but a four to six second delay in spitting   more »

The new server has now gone live, the Rasberry Pi is sitting quietly in the corner of my living room serving up my website to the internet. I know I've backdated this post, but it is to mark the moment in history - I'll give the Pi one final good luck reboot and it is ready to go with the aim of surviving a whole year of uptime. For many years   more »