Posts Tagged ‘Raspberry Pi’
Raspberry Pi Alarm
I set $son0 a summer holiday challenge of building an alarm system that would send an email (and it seems that I’m not alone). I was pleased to see that the latest edition (#4) of Magpi has an alarm project so we set about building it together. The hardware came together pretty nicely, but the software […]
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Tags: alarm, GPIO, howto, python, Raspberry Pi, Raspi, RPi
In part 1 I went through setting up an SSH tunnel, and waking up machines on the home network. In this part I’ll run through how to use various protocols and clients to connect to machines on the home network. SSH tunnels on PuTTY SSH lets you tunnel many other protocols through it (using a […]
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Tags: howto, http, Putty, Raspberry Pi, Raspi, RDP, remote access, router, RPi, SOCKS, SSH, tunnel, VNC, vpn, wakeonlan
In this post I’m going to cover setting up a network tunnel and waking up other computers on the home network. Why use a Raspberry Pi? A tunnel needs two ends, so at home this means leaving at least one machine switched on – keeping the electricity meter turning. One of the great things about […]
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Tags: howto, Putty, Raspberry Pi, Raspi, remote access, router, RPi, SSH, tunnel, vpn, wakeonlan
In the first part of this howto I went through signing up for a cloud service, provisioning a VM, installing the build tools and kicking off a build. All being well you should end up with something like this: Azure can also give you a pretty chart of how busy the VM was during the build […]
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Tags: Apache, Azure, build, cloud, openelec, Raspberry Pi, Raspi, virtual machine, VM, VPS, XBMC
Building OpenELEC in the cloud
When I got my Raspberry Pi pretty much the first thing I did with it was to put on OpenELEC, and excellent shrink wrapped package for XBMC. Initially I started compiling it myself on a local virtual machine (VM), but impatience got the better of me and I downloaded an image provided by somebody else. […]
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Tags: Azure, build, cloud, openelec, Raspberry Pi, Raspi, virtual machine, VM, VPS, XBMC
If you just want to download images rather than make them then I’d suggest downloading an image of the latest official build. For the adventerous I’m still doing frequest dev builds and associated images[1], but these may be unstable. Read on if you’re interested in how this stuff is done… The Raspberry Pi build of […]
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Tags: image, openelec, Raspberry Pi, Raspi, RPi, SD, VirtualBox, XBMC
I spent time figuring this out due to needing SD cards for my Raspberry Pi, but the instructions apply to pretty much anything on SD. DD on Windows Windows sadly lacks the DD utility that’s ubiquitous on Unix/Linux systems. Luckily there is a dd for Windows utility. Get the latest version here (release at time of […]
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Tags: DD, howto, image, Raspberry Pi, Raspi, RPi, SD
Raspberry Pi on iPad
My second Raspberry Pi came at the end of last week[1], so now I have one to tinker with in addition to the first that I’m using as a media player. It turns out that it’s not just SD cards that the raspi is fussy about, I had a real struggle getting either of my […]
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Tags: howto, iPad, iSSH, Putty, Raspberry Pi, Raspi, RPi, SSH, vnd
I’ve continued tinkering with my OpenELEC media player, and there’s too much stuff to do as just updates or comments to the original post. Build I started out with a canned build[1], but discussion on the OpenELEC thread on the Raspberry Pi Forums suggested that I was missing out on some features and fixes. I […]
Filed under: howto, media, Raspberry Pi | 30 Comments
Tags: 720p, mce, Media Player, mount, nfs, openelec, Raspberry Pi, Raspi, remote, resolution, Synology, XBMC
My old Kiss Dp-600 media player has been getting progressively less reliable, so for a little while I’ve been telling the kids that I’d replace it with a Raspberry Pi. Of course getting hold of one has proven far from simple. Some time ago the prospect of using XBMC on the Raspi was confirmed, leading […]
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Tags: .config, 1080p, 720p, autostart.sh, cifs, mce, Media Player, mount, NAS, openelec, Raspberry Pi, Raspi, reboot, remote, resolution, restart, spdif, Synology, XBMC
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