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On Setting Up a Raspberry Pi 2 as Off-grid Server (2015) - Read how I set up my solar-powered RPi2 (previously a Model B then a B+) to take on load from servers elsewhere on the Internet... #RPi #frugal #offGrid - https://www.earth.org.uk/note-on-Raspberry-Pi-2-setup.html

Not sure about the $5 tag but some nice ideas if you are not sure what to do with your #raspnerryPi - most appear reasonably easy to commission too

5 budget-friendly Raspberry Pi projects you can complete in a weekend for under $5
https://www.xda-developers.com/budget-friendly-raspberry-pi-projects-complete-weekend-under-5/

#rpi

@groberschnitzer IMHO noch besser: man kauft nur (gebrauchte) Router, die von #OpenWRT unterstützt werden.

Damit spart man sich die vielen Hersteller-Backdoor-Probleme + Auslaufen des Supports und OpenWRT bringt mehrere Add-ons für DNS-Blocking schon mit.

Dann spart man sich die unnötigen Stromkosten und das laufende Gerät. #RPi kann man so woanders einsetzen.

YMMV

#PiHole #Werbung

I have finally upgraded my #DIY home routers from #RPi 1 to RPi 3. This is part of my long term plan to abandon 32-bit #ARM.

With RPi 1 I was using rt2x00 USB Wi-Fi adapters with an external antenna. I was concerned about the performance of the internal "no-antenna" design of RPi 3 but it turns out to be pretty good also in AP mode.

After a week w/testing both in city apartment and country home, it works even better (Teams calls, Chromecast, Android speedtest) than old setups.

#Linux #Upgrade

Since I know MX Linux by heart, my config of the Pi5 SBC with MX was quite fast.

#MXLinux #rPI #respin
#SBC #ARM #Pie #Raspberry #GPIO #Electronics #OpenSource #POSIX

The image shows a computer desktop screen with a terminal window open. The terminal displays system information using the neofetch command, including the operating system (Debian GNU/Linux 12), host (Raspberry Pi 5 Model B Rev 1.1), kernel version (6.12.20-pi-2712), and other details such as the shell (bash 5.2.15), resolution (1920x1080), and CPU and memory usage. The desktop environment is Xfce 4.20 with a dark theme, and the terminal font is Liberation Mono 12.5. The wallpaper features a sunset over a body of water with a silhouette of a person fishing. The terminal command "nice -1 xfdesktop-settings" is visible, indicating a user is configuring desktop settings. The terminal window is titled "neofetch," and other open applications include "mcp," "mc-a," "cafe," "RemAD," "Azureus," "BanaG," "Poder," and "cmos."

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🌱 Energy used: 0.233 Wh

Self-Hosting a #Joplin Server on the Raspberry Pi

https://pimylifeup.com/raspberry-pi-joplin-server/

#RPi #pkm #notes

Since I dont do
`curl unknown_url my_SBC` I went to raspap myself

I love what I saw so that is another OS to try for my SBC Pi5

https://raspap.com/

#pfsense #rPI #raspap
#SBC #ARM #Pie #Raspberry #GPIO #Electronics #OpenSource #POSIX

The image shows a computer screen displaying a webpage from "Single-Board Bytes," a website dedicated to Raspberry Pi tutorials and resources. The webpage is titled "The 5 Best PSense Alternatives for Raspberry Pi" and includes a section on setting up WiFi country using the command "sudo raspi-config." Below this, there is a section titled "The Quick Installer will finish the manual installation process for you once it has finished invoking," with a command to run: "curl -sL https://install.raspap.com/bash." The webpage also features a screenshot of a terminal window showing the execution of the "curl" command, with the output indicating the installation of RaspAP, a simple wireless access point solution for Raspberry Pi. The terminal window displays the text "RaspAP" in purple, along with other installation details. The browser's address bar shows the URL "singleboardbytes.com/2712-5-best-psense-alternatives-for-raspberry-pi," and the tabs include various links related to Raspberry Pi and other single-board computers.

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🌱 Energy used: 0.776 Wh

The image shows a webpage for RaspAP, a wireless router setup for Debian-based devices. The background is a light green color, and the main visual element is a large blue Wi-Fi symbol with several people around it, suggesting connectivity and community. The text "RaspAP" is prominently displayed in black and orange, with a subtitle that reads, "The easiest, full-featured wireless router setup for Debian-based devices. Period." Below this, there are two buttons: "Quick Start" in red and "Get Insiders" in green. The navigation bar at the top includes links to "Home," "About," "Features," "Docs," "License," and "Contact." Additional links at the bottom include "View on GitHub," "Full Documentation," and "Created by the RaspAP team." The page also features social media icons for Twitter and a GitHub star button. The text "More than an access point" is visible at the bottom of the image.

I wanted to run something similar to pfSense on my SBC.

I found this site on which I saw OpenWRT (which I know & love but had forgotten, sue to a broken wifi router) and RaspAP

https://singleboardbytes.com/2712/best-pfsense-alternatives-for-raspberry-pi.htm

#pfsense #rPI #SBC
#SBC #ARM #Pie #Raspberry #GPIO #Electronics #OpenSource #POSIX

Im also going to install the MX-23.6_rpi_respin on a microSD card. It's a respin of Raspberry Pi OS which will work also with Pi5 hardware.

https://mxlinux.org/download-links/

#MXLinux #rPI #respin
#SBC #ARM #Pie #Raspberry #GPIO #Electronics #OpenSource #POSIX

I bought this for an #RPi I'm going to use after a few years of it being idle. Most of the reason I bought it is to marvel at the fact that you can get 2TB in that form factor.

Sandisk microSDXC card with a size of 2TB.

New toy: a 16gb #RPI 5 with an M.2 hat. I'm waiting for a 2 hour (and growing!) web scraping job every morning and this little fella will do it for me before I wake up.

Not having run with my #RPi 4. It won't hand out an IP address with dnsmasq to a client that is requesting one. I can see in the logs it won't give out an IP, but I can't see my error in the config file... Probably a #dyslexia moment...! The logs don't say why it can't give out an IP address...!

I'll be the first to admit I'm not great at #soldering but I believe this should do the trick! These will display some basic information about the #Pi such as the hostname, CPU load, memory usage, disk usage and temperature.

#electronics #OLED #RaspberryPi #stats #data #RPi

So, I've been living here for three weeks now. Haven't boot up any machine yet proper. But I had laptop/monitor combo running just to confirm, that my solar can easily provide power the whole day.

And yet, here's the thing. It's not raining when it produces enough power. So I work around the plot or hike to get the feel of the ridge. When it is raining, the laptop drains too much for any consistency in #adhd workday.

Gotta dig out my #rpi and set it up proper again.

yay, the RP2354 includes 2MB flash!

https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/rp2350-a4-rp2354-and-a-new-hacking-challenge/

#RP2354 #RP2350 #RP2040 #rpi #pico

#heise erklärt in diesem 23min-Video wirklich einfach, wie man einen billigen, alten #RaspberryPi-Rechner nutzt, um eine eigene #Cloud-Sychronisierung für Daten selbst zu bauen.

Der Use-Case hier ist ein #Foto-Backup vom #Smartphone.

https://peertube.heise.de/w/rte48FXmxTAXqazRy3AQNb

Vielleicht genau das richtige Projekt, um mal mit Linux anzufangen? Das Video beinhaltet alle dafür notwendigen Schritte. 👍

#Syncthing #RPi #Backup #PIM

This is how my #Mastodon instance is spending its day according to CPU freq stats. It's #RPi 3 so I'd say it takes 2.5W on average. I'm going to try running one week with a power meter to see how well this calculation works.

#LowPower #SelfHosting

I have upgraded my #Mastodon instance from v4.3.10 to v4.4.2. Apparently - and amazingly - it still seems to work!

Again a lot of manual steps each taking sometimes hours on a low-end #RPi.

I wish software upgrades were more easy and automatic...

#Software #Rant #SelfHosting

Ancient #RPi serving home stereo AirPlay.

I'd prefer #NetBSD: https://schmonz.com/2024/06/07/small-arms/

Staged latest shairport-sync for #pkgsrc. Builds on NetBSD, #macOS. Normally I'd commit, wait for evbearmv6hf-el binary package, forget.

Trying something new today: https://cdn.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/current/pkgsrc/doc/HOWTO-use-crosscompile

Another outage w/Bitwoods instance! This time 10 days (I was out of town), and the last journal logs were:
Jul 17 22:03:28 bitwoods systemd[1]: systemd-journald.service: Watchdog timeout (limit 3min)!
Jul 17 22:03:28 bitwoods systemd[1]: systemd-journald.service: Killing process 2898452 (systemd-journal) with signal SIGABRT.

It recovered by power cycling; I guess I need to enable the #RPi HW watchdog. I suspect there's some kind of resource leak and it deadlocks after long uptime.

#SelfHosting

#rPi

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