Automating Trådfri or Hue lights with Home Assistant and Conbee
Getting started with Home assistant to automate your IKEA Trådfri or Philips Hue lights, using a Raspberry Pi and Conbee, the docker way
Raspberry Pi HQ Audio Player
Get good quality analog audio from your Raspberry Pi for cheap.
Build a realtime Bitcoin price display
Use a Raspberry Pi to follow Bitcoin trades in realtime on a cheap, tiny OLED display
Raspberry Pi thermometer - online
In part 1 of this series I hooked up a waterproof DS18B20 to my Raspberry pi. For more fun, let’s show our temperature readings to the world!
Yet another Raspberry Pi thermometer
One of the easiest and cheap awesome Pi hacks is DIY-ing your own thermometer.
Roll your own unblock-us
So you’ve got your VPS located in the US up and running but just don’t know how to put it to use? A nifty little tool named sniproxy will do great things for you.
Moving old files in Linux
Archiving might become a necessity when storing a lot of files on a server. This is a snippet which moves files older than a year to another directory. Note the -print0 and -0 (zero) which add null characters for escaping spaces and backslashes. find myfiles/ -mtime +365 -print0 |xargs -0 -I {} mv {} myfiles_old/
dvbloopback in Linux 2.6.38
Compiling and using sasc-ng and dvbloopback with Linux 2.6.38 is a hassle. Here’s how to get it working. Prequisites: Ubuntu Lucid Kernel 2.6.38-11-generic We need to patch both the kernel dvb module as well as the dvbloopback source. Download linux-2.6.38-dvb-mutex.patch to your home folder. $ sudo apt-get install linux-headers-uname -r Now let’s get the kernel source, patch it, and recompile the dvb-core module. $ cd /usr/src $ sudo apt-get source kernel-image-uname -r $ cd linux-2.
Restoring a single database from a MySQL dump
If you, like me, happen to end up with a mysqldump –all-databases dump file and need to restore a single database, here’s how (replace Target with your database name):
Extending an LVM volume
The following commands adds a new partition to an existing lvm volume. Tested on Ubuntu 10.04. First, find out your volume name using: sudo vgdisplay