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
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Getting started with Home assistant to automate your IKEA Trådfri or Philips Hue lights, using a Raspberry Pi and Conbee, the docker way
Get good quality analog audio from your Raspberry Pi for cheap.
Use a Raspberry Pi to follow Bitcoin trades in realtime on a cheap, tiny OLED display
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!
One of the easiest and cheap awesome Pi hacks is DIY-ing your own thermometer.
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.
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/
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.
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):
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