Category Archives: Linux

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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Get data from WH1080 Maplin Weatherstation sensors directly

Posted on December 17, 2019 by Brian

I have been using pywws to extract the weather station data from my Maplin WH1080 for 6 years now but have now suffered from the dreaded (in pywws circles) USB Lockup – basically the weather station stops talking to the … Continue reading →

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Install a Package from the Testing Repository

Posted on December 17, 2019 by Brian

I wanted to install the rtl_443 package onto my Raspberry Pi, running Buster edition of Raspbian, so I could read the data from my WH1080.  The GitHub page pointed me to the Raspbian testing repository. To install this package from … Continue reading →

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ReadyNasDuo V1 Rsync

Posted on October 3, 2019 by Brian

This is a quick – “so that’s how I did it” Connecting to an rsync share on the NasDuo;

Where the user is listed under the ‘Advanced Options’  of the share.  I used a user without a password, nogroup … 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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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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Systemd Timer and monit

Posted on November 20, 2018 by Brian

Why is it that, so often, a key bit of information is assumed by documentation writers? I’ve had an issue for a while where monit will fail to start properly on boot.  The issue is that with DietPi, it seems … 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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Forcing npm to Update Packages to Latest

Posted on May 31, 2017 by Brian

I have had a problem getting npm to update packages to the latest version.  The packages involved are packages that have been installed directly and have no dependencies.  It it is down to the use of semantic versioning in npm … Continue reading →

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Using a Small TFT with a Raspberry Pi

Posted on May 21, 2017 by Brian

Introduction As I have said before part of the point of this blog is so I have a record of how I did things and this definitely fits into that category.  If others find it useful, that is a bonus. … Continue reading →

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