Category Archives: RaspberryPi

DietPi – Move Boot partition to smaller SD Card

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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Using a Small TFT with a Raspberry Pi

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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Node-RED and icons

I’ve been looking at Pete Scargill’s thermostat and got stuck on icons. He blogged about icons recently but that didn’t say how to install them.  So on the basis of ‘if I didn’t know there will be others who don’t … Continue reading

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A New Discovery

I actually love it when I come across something new, even if I should have found it ages ago. WinSCP. How I have never come across it beats me, but if you regularly edit files on different systems, this is … Continue reading

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Installing Raspbian onto the PiDrive (HDD)

In the previous blog, I explained how I got to this point. Briefly, I have a new B+ RaspberryPi and a WD Labs PiDrive HDD.  The aim is to end up with Jessie Lite booting off the PiDrive. There are … Continue reading

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The Hardware Setup and Deciding on the OS

As I mentioned before I am a big fan of the B+ RaspberryPi as I feel it hits the sweet spot for price v functionality & capability especially as I use them on a wired network.  To the Pi I … Continue reading

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