I do a lot of Raspberry Pi projects and experiments. But I barely never use a directly connected monitor, mouse or keyboard. I always use it via terminal and do everything over remote connection. But at the very first point you have to setup the Raspberry Pi with an operating system and enable network connection. […]
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Since the latest version of Raspian OS ( Debian Stretch ) the configuration of a static IP address changed a little. If you enter it the old way into the /etc/network/interfaces you might end up in a „No wireless interfaces found“ error.
Read moreSometime you just have to find your Raspberry Pi in your network and you do not want to connect a display and keyboard to find out the IP address.
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By default the OSX Finder hides a lot of system files, which are not meant to been seen and edit by the user. But in some cases you do need to edit them. And I also love to see what is existing in a folder.
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How to configure your BOINC client on a raspberry pi to compute for the SETI@Home project.
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I very often use Raspberry Pis for any kind of installations and tinkering. When there should something be displayed or the installation has any kind of display interface I always use web technologies for that. So building a website, which I run in Google Chrome browser in kiosk mode. With Google Remote Debugging, built in […]
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Most WiFi networks send their names or SSID so you could easily find them on your device. You could also turn this functionality off. The networks could still be found easily with any WiFi network sniffer tool. It is just a little less obvious if you do not want everybody to login there. If you […]
Read moreAt home I have a WiFi network from my router through the appartment. But my working place is at the other side of the house and I do not have the possibility to pull an ethernet cable through the walls. But I for the NAS, some raspberry projects and so on I also wanted to […]
Read moreTo play mp3 files on raspberry pi you could use the omxplayer. Install it over terminal via: sudo apt-get install omxplayer To play a mp3 file just use: omxplayer -l 00:00:00 -o local /path/to/fie.mp3 The parameter -o local defines the output to be local, which means on the raspberry pi to use the 3.5mm jack. […]
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This article is outdated. Please read this update: https://blog.sebastian-martens.de/2017/08/running-chrome-in-kiosk-mode-on-raspberry-pi-update/ I recently use Raspberry PIs for everything and and many projects. When I have any kind of interface showing to users I use webinterfaces shown in Chrome Browser. So I need to run it in a Kiosk mode. This it how it worked for me: First […]
Read moreI run a lot of standalone raspberry pi. Often for very small installations. So I have a standard image for all new rasp pis. On startup it will send its own IP address to a fixed server. So after starting one I have a quick look at the server, which is the current IP to […]
Read moreWith the latest QNAP Updates there is no standard package „SVN“ available via the App Center anymore. To install SVN on your QNAP anyway you could do the following steps: The first step in the installation is to Install Optware IPKG through QPKG Active Telnet on your QNAP under Network Services Connect to your QNAP […]
Read moreIn der aktuellen Version von WordPress (3.6) findet sich immer noch ein kleiner nerviger Bug. Wenn man einmal das linke Hauptmenü eingeklappt hat, dann wird es nach jedem Seiten-Reload erneut eingeklappt. Und bei diesem Verhalten bleibt es, das Menü bleibt weiter eingeklappt. Der Wert dafür wird nicht in einem Cookie gespeichert, sondern direkt in der […]
Read more[highlighted_text]This article is outdated.[/highlighted_text] Why? As for my various Motorbike Tours I normally love to do the first steps of route planning within Google Maps. It’s a great tool with mostly up to date data, you immediately got a distance and travel time estimation, you could send the link/tour to your friends …. BUT you […]
Read moreNote for myself: I tried to install Adobe Edge Inspect (1.0.327) on OSX. When I launched the server application on my desktop the applications quits without any messages and don’t show up. Within the process list you see an „Adobe Edge Inspect“ process coming up for a very short time before it seems to crash. Solution: […]
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