Category Archives: Technical – General

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

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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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