kodi screensaver code
https://gitlab.com/ronie/screensaver.picture.slideshow
Category: raspberrypi-zero
Kodi non-local control
with max2play install: port is 8080, user kodi/photohappy can kill kodi with: pgrep name | xargs kill from the command line, or by ssh’ing on to the machine and doing a shutdown now command. Not sure if Kodi has other cleanup that it would normally do when it’s shutdown/exit button is pressed. remote control with… Continue reading Kodi non-local control
Random Pi Fu
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
Recovering Pi password
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
VMC photo-frame (pi-zeroW)
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)
Pulling images from the pi
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.
apt-get update –> no release file
This error went away after rebooting the pi.
Physical Mounting of Pi-zero’s
For an easy to remove, yet secure mount: Cut out a substrate, I often use a piece of 1/4″ ply substantially bigger then the footprint of the pi so that I can screw / glue other things to it as well as so that I can mount the whole shebang inside a case or wherever.… Continue reading Physical Mounting of Pi-zero’s