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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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- Using a Laptop as a PVE server
- Monitoring a PVE Machine’s Battery Status
- 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
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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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Bash on Windows
Bash on Windows is a fantastic tool. If you have not heard about it I suggest a bit of Googling but in short, it is a fully fledged (well almost) Ubuntu system running right on Windows. I don’t intend to … Continue reading
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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