2022-12-26
I had my Unifi Controller on a Raspberry Pi 4B+ using a Sandisk 64Gb USB stick. A couple of months ago, after an unexpected electricity failure the Controller just went offline as in I couldn't access the website any more. Thus it went to the top of list of home IT management tasks these holidays. Step 1 was identifying what is wrong with the Pi to being with.
2016-1-7
I have been eyeing a touchscreen to go with one Raspberry Pi from my collection (O_o), for a while now. The official Raspberry Pi screen is perpetually out of stock and backordered for months. The resellers are charging a hefty markup. Only option left was a third-party screen. After a lot of deliberations I settled down on this screen by WaveShare http://www.waveshare.com/wiki/7inch\_HDMI\_LCD\_%28C%29
2015-4-7
In my previous article I built a C# library to communicate with the GPIO ports of the Raspberry Pi 2 (and Raspberry Pi B+). We also built a small console application to trigger the ports. While the console application was a nice proof of concept, the real fun is when you are able to flip switches from remote locations (when not at home, over phone etc. etc.) As a first attempt at this I built a OWIN based self hosting web site that communicates with the Pi over HTTP using SignalR.
2015-3-22
Some of you may have spotted my previous experiments with the $35 wonder computer that's the Raspberry Pi. I have since then added two more Raspberry Pies to my collection. One goes into the amazeballs Diddyborg (by @Pi_Borg) and the other one is a the latest and greatest Raspberry Pi 2 bought on the day of launch in early February.
2013-9-22
Previously I have blogged about how I converted my Raspberry Pi into a DLNA Media Server. When we moved to UK I brought along my media server and it was up in a jiffy. However, yesterday, when I sat down to build my long pending Windows 8 Media Client on my rebuilt Windows 8 VM, it simply wouldn’t show the MediaPi (name of my Media Server) when I selected ‘Computer’ in Windows Explorer.
2013-8-10
In my previous article I had mentioned how I setup a Samba based file server using my Raspberry PI to share media across my computers in my home network. It works fine, but still it’s not really streaming the media and I figured out that I still couldn’t use my media via the XBox because XBox doesn’t work with Network shares unless they are over UPnP. So the next quest was to setup a UPnP server on my Pi.
2013-7-21
Have been meaning to put this post together for a while, but I wanted my setup to stabilize a bit to gain confidence that it ‘works’. Now that I’ve been using this for over two months and things have stabilized time to put it down.