trying it out for the zeroW DietPi specific commands Here are the few commands DietPi offers you to manage your system: To go back to the installation wizard I showed you at anytime, you can use:dietpi-software To only see and edit the configuration part (raspbian-config equivalent), just use:dietpi-configHere you’ll find all the basic things you saw during the installation… Continue reading DietPi notes
pi zeroW Stretch cmdline.txt: dwc_otg.lpm_enable=0 console=serial0,115200 console=tty1 root=PARTUUID=2ee2c5b4-02 rootfstype=ext4 elevator=deadline fsck.repair=yes rootwait logo.nologo
Power down and pull the SD card out from your Pi and put it into your computer. Open the file ‘cmdline.txt‘ and add ‘init=/bin/sh‘ or /bin/bash to the end. This will cause the machine to boot to single user mode. Put the SD card back in the Pi and boot. When the prompt comes up,… Continue reading Recovering Pi password
Used this to solve a problem for Ben where he needed a script to run on first log in for a user but not to run again if it was already running and they opened another sheel if ! pgrep -f “dmx-hue” >/dev/null then echo “didn’t find dmx” else echo “found dmx” fi
Originally we created a photo-frame using a pi-zeroW with max2play installed (runs Kodi and has an easy web based config interface) but there is a $10 license fee per year so things started to go bad after one year was up. Current setup is Kodi running on raspbian stretch. Setup instructions for kodi Once Kodi… Continue reading VMC photo-frame (pi-zeroW)
First install pyenv with Then install the latest 2.x version of python Download weewx-X.Y.Z.tar.gz from weewx.com/downloads… this is the correct version for osX For serving from a local openWRT router: change the /etc/config/uhttpd file. Add the text below to the top of the file then restart uhttpd (/etc/init.d/uhttpd restart) : then to access the page… Continue reading Installing weeWX
We have installed pi-hole on a pi attached to our network; we then use it as our DNS service in order to block ads. Instead of setting it as the default DNS for all dhcp clients on the network, we manually specify it on each of our devices (phones, computers, ipad) so that it is… Continue reading Pi-hole
rsync -avz treecam1:/home/pi/imgcomp/images/0601/13 . will pull the images. Then follow the time lapse movie post to create the movie, then use handbrake to compress it for the web. This command depends on the ssh keys being set up for treecam1.
This error went away after rebooting the pi.
from beebalm.com macOS Instructions Backup Raspberry Pi SD Card 1. Insert the SD card in your Mac using a USB or built-in card reader. Now open a Terminal window, and enter the command diskutil list. Try to identify the device ID of your SD card. For example, mine shows up as /dev/disk3. 2. Unmount your SD card: Here, replace disk3 with the name… Continue reading Cloning pi’s