Category Archives: DietPi

DietPi – Move Boot partition to smaller SD Card

Posted on January 8, 2020 by Brian

Original Topic DietPi is just a great distribution. If you haven’t tried it, do. There is a function within the system called dietpi-drivemanager and it does what it says on the tin, manages drives. For me I wanted to move … Continue reading →

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Letsencrypt SSL Certificates by DNS Challenge with Lighttpd

Posted on March 22, 2019 by Brian

LAN HTTPS Everywhere The aim of this investigation was to find a way to deploy HTTPS certificates on my LAN.  This might seem over the top, but a) Troy Hunt thinks it is a good idea and b) I was … Continue reading →

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Cloudflared DNS over HTTPS (DoH) and Pi-Hole

Posted on February 3, 2019 by Brian

(Using the new WordPress Editor and I am not sure I like it – in fact I hate it.  Gone back via the ‘Classic Editor’ plugin) Background I have been following Troy Hunt and Scott Hulme, 2 well known security … Continue reading →

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UniFi Controller on a Pi or DietPi

Posted on February 3, 2019 by Brian

Having just invested in a UniFi AP UAP-AC-Lite (it is absolutely fantastic), and refusing to spend £70 on the USB UniFi controller or wanting to use the cloud system, I needed to get the UniFi controller installed.  I didn’t expect … Continue reading →

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Pi-Hole and Disabling dnsmaq

Posted on January 26, 2019 by Brian

Pi-Hole no longer uses the dnsmasq DNS proxy directly. However, existing installations will still have it installed and the service will still attempt to run and fail (as it should). I was keen to get rid of it as I’m … Continue reading →

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Emoncms on DietPi

Posted on October 13, 2018 by Brian

Introduction WARNING The Install of EmonCMS has moved on since I wrote this and this guide is now depreciated I am a huge fan of DietPi – lightweight and fast, runs an a large number of SBCs. The aim here … Continue reading →

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Old DietPi Orange Pi Images

Posted on February 28, 2018 by Brian

If, like me, you are a fan of DietPi, you may well have been irritated by recent events.  The decision to move to a completely new image that could not be upgraded to, was understandable, if unfortunate.  These things happen … Continue reading →

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Adding a DietPi VM to an EXSi Host

Posted on January 30, 2018 by Brian

This blog very much falls into the ‘how in the hell did I do that’ category. A bit of background.  I have had an HP MicroServer for a number of years just sitting there not doing a lot except running … Continue reading →

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