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Sharing things I have managed to do (usually so I don’t forget how I did them) plus a few thoughts thrown in for good measure. All about technology one way or another.
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- Useful tshark Commands
- I’ve been away but “Now I’m Back”
- DietPi – Move Boot partition to smaller SD Card
- Get data from WH1080 Maplin Weatherstation sensors directly
- Install a Package from the Testing Repository
- ReadyNasDuo V1 Rsync
- Miscrosoft Teams – stop it auto starting
- Letsencrypt SSL Certificates by DNS Challenge with Lighttpd
- BT Broadband – Faster Speeds – Yes Really
- Ubiquiti USG Home Setup
- BT Broadband – Faster Speeds
- Cloudflared DNS over HTTPS (DoH) and Pi-Hole
- UniFi Controller on a Pi or DietPi
- Pi-Hole and Disabling dnsmaq
- Systemd Timer and monit
- Contributing to Open Source Projects on GitHub
- Using nmcli to set a static IPV4 address in Hass.io
- Emoncms on DietPi
- Else is never necessary – Really?
- Keeping time on a Pi
- Old DietPi Orange Pi Images
- Adding a DietPi VM to an EXSi Host
- Displaying buttons on the TFT
- Forcing npm to Update Packages to Latest
- Using a Small TFT with a Raspberry Pi
- Bash History
- Installing pywws and running it as a Daemon
- Node-RED and icons
- Node-RED, npm, sudo and permissions
- A New Discovery
- Trouble with Hosting at SmartHost
- Node-RED and XML to JSON
- Reducing Spam on WordPress and Blacklists
- USB to VGA adapter
- Bash on Windows
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BT Broadband – Faster Speeds
BT have said they are going to increase my speed This I find really interesting as I hardly use what I have. I monitor my speed on an hourly basis, As you can see, it is pretty reliable. The dips … Continue reading
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Cloudflared DNS over HTTPS (DoH) and Pi-Hole
(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
UniFi Controller on a Pi or DietPi
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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Tagged Docker, Ubiquti, UniFi
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Pi-Hole and Disabling dnsmaq
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
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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Contributing to Open Source Projects on GitHub
If it has crossed your mind to contribute to an Open Source project, but GitHub just seems too daunting, then I’d suggest reading this tutorial. The bit that got me was how to actually contribute and this section explains it … Continue reading
Emoncms on DietPi
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
Posted in DietPi, OpenEnergyMonitor, Technical - General
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Keeping time on a Pi
Again, this blog fall into the category of a ‘I need to remember how I did this’ post. I actually started writing this months ago but never finished it. Good job as some of what I originally said was wrong … Continue reading
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Installing pywws and running it as a Daemon
I have been using pywws for a number of years to download the data from my weather station and it simply just works. There is good support from the author though there are some gaps in the documentation. Moving pywws … 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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