trying it out for the zeroW DietPi specific commands Here are the few commands DietPi offers you to manage your system: To go back to the installation wizard I showed you at anytime, you can use:dietpi-software To only see and edit the configuration part (raspbian-config equivalent), just use:dietpi-configHere you’ll find all the basic things you saw during the installation… Continue reading DietPi notes
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with max2play install: port is 8080, user kodi/photohappy can kill kodi with: pgrep name | xargs kill from the command line, or by ssh’ing on to the machine and doing a shutdown now command. Not sure if Kodi has other cleanup that it would normally do when it’s shutdown/exit button is pressed. remote control with… Continue reading Kodi non-local control
pi zeroW Stretch cmdline.txt: dwc_otg.lpm_enable=0 console=serial0,115200 console=tty1 root=PARTUUID=2ee2c5b4-02 rootfstype=ext4 elevator=deadline fsck.repair=yes rootwait logo.nologo
Power down and pull the SD card out from your Pi and put it into your computer. Open the file ‘cmdline.txt‘ and add ‘init=/bin/sh‘ or /bin/bash to the end. This will cause the machine to boot to single user mode. Put the SD card back in the Pi and boot. When the prompt comes up,… Continue reading Recovering Pi password
Used this to solve a problem for Ben where he needed a script to run on first log in for a user but not to run again if it was already running and they opened another sheel if ! pgrep -f “dmx-hue” >/dev/null then echo “didn’t find dmx” else echo “found dmx” fi
Originally we created a photo-frame using a pi-zeroW with max2play installed (runs Kodi and has an easy web based config interface) but there is a $10 license fee per year so things started to go bad after one year was up. Current setup is Kodi running on raspbian stretch. Setup instructions for kodi Once Kodi… Continue reading VMC photo-frame (pi-zeroW)
On OpenWRT routers install avahi-daemon-service-http, avahi-daemon-service-ssh and possibly avahi-utils Set host name to be what you want and set domain to be local Then, on edgerouterX use the config tree to add all of the desired eth interfaces as well as switch0 to an mdns repeater.
First install pyenv with Then install the latest 2.x version of python Download weewx-X.Y.Z.tar.gz from weewx.com/downloads… this is the correct version for osX For serving from a local openWRT router: change the /etc/config/uhttpd file. Add the text below to the top of the file then restart uhttpd (/etc/init.d/uhttpd restart) : then to access the page… Continue reading Installing weeWX
We have installed pi-hole on a pi attached to our network; we then use it as our DNS service in order to block ads. Instead of setting it as the default DNS for all dhcp clients on the network, we manually specify it on each of our devices (phones, computers, ipad) so that it is… Continue reading Pi-hole