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Jan/23

Home Assistant Dashboard On A Raspberry Pi

Filed Under Home Automation, IOT at 7th January 2023 12:30 by

Overview I wanted to create a display of a web page on a Raspberry Pi with no desktop or browser looking controls. This is called a kiosk mode. The main driver for this is to replace the MagicMirror to show … Continue reading →

06

Dec/21

Raspberry Pi Connect To Hidden SSID

Filed Under IOT, Networking at 6th December 2021 0:01 by

Turns out the Raspberry Pi won’t automatically look for hidden WiFi networks. CLI To enable this edit the file /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf and add scan_ssid=1 inside the network declaration: SD With the SD plugged into another computer other than the Raspberry Pi, … Continue reading →

03

Aug/20

Install Network UPS Monitoring Server

Filed Under Infrastructure at 3rd August 2020 0:01 by

Overview I have been using an Uninterruptable Power Supply (UPS) on and off for years. It was in the last few years when we noticed the lights brightening and dimming on halogen bulbs I decided to look into it deeper … Continue reading →

27

Apr/15

OpenVPN Server On Raspberry Pi

Filed Under Linux at 27th April 2015 0:01 by

Overview Having a great geek out chat with Andrew Gorton and he gave me the idea of setting up an OpenVPN server using a Raspberry Pi. A simple, relatively cheap solution to get access to resources at home. Pre-Requisites I … Continue reading →

31

Mar/14

Move / Change Password RasPBX Database

Filed Under PBX at 31st March 2014 0:01 by

Overview Migrating Host First export and import the database data into the new database. It goes without saying that the RasPBX should be stopped or any changes between the export and import will not be captured and lost. The root … Continue reading →

25

Nov/13

Backup & Restore EXT To Smaller Drive

Filed Under Hardware, Linux at 25th November 2013 0:01 by

Overview Linux provides great tools for doing this albeit not in a very user friendly way. As usually it is best to backup before trying this and make sure the space used fits onto the new drive. This method can … Continue reading →

03

Jun/13

Raspberry Pi Replace Home Server

Filed Under Hardware at 3rd June 2013 0:01 by

Overview With the popularity of Raspberry Pi I wanted to investigate if it was possible to replace my 24×7 Linux server running at home. Whilst one Raspberry Pi will not replace a desktop computer, it may be possible to use … Continue reading →

27

May/13

Install FreePBX On Raspberry Pi

Filed Under Linux, PBX at 27th May 2013 0:01 by

Overview The great thing about the Raspberry Pi is it’s ability to change it’s OS with a swap of an SD card. This allows the Pi to change functions and testing almost as easily as spinning up a Virtual Machine … Continue reading →