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Pi: BtSync satellite – spin down hard drive
Posted on April 10, 2016 Leave a Comment
My BitTorrent satellite has finally synced my 6tb of data over the local network. The initial sync took several days but so far it seems to pretty quick picking up new files and syncing them. Before I move it to my office I want to make sure I get some peace and quite in the […]
Pi: Python script for BtSync status LCD
Posted on April 6, 2016 Leave a Comment
Adding and LCD display to a Pi project can make it so much easier to use. Displaying current IP address and status of some task that you only have to interact with when something went wrong. In this example we have the 20×4 (20 characters x 4 lines) LCD status display of my BtSync Satellite that […]
Pi: Geo-location backup with BtSync
Posted on April 3, 2016 2 Comments
Building a geo-location backup for your NAS is a good idea! To spread the risk over two or more locations increases your backup value a lot. Most people confuse redundancy and backup. If you only have a USB-disk backup of your NAS it only protects you against hardware failure. If there is a fire or […]
OpenVPN performance on the Pi
Posted on March 22, 2016 24 Comments
Setting up an OpenVPN router on the Pi is pretty straight forward but what about performance? How much performance do we lose by using the Raspberry Pi or the Banana Pi? I have been testing a few different models to see what the overall performance difference is. I also wanted to compare them against each other. […]
Pi: Make a VPN gateway with UPnP port forwarding
Posted on March 19, 2016 40 Comments
Tunneling your traffic over an encrypted VPN can be good for both privacy concerns and circumventing geoblocking. If a service is only offered in a specific country or blocked at your current location. My use case is a bit of both. Currently living in the USA which is the biggest surveillance state on earth I […]
Banana Pi: First run
Posted on March 12, 2016 5 Comments
Banana Pi was created to fill the need for more powerful hardware than the Raspberry Pi supplied. There are a lot of single board computers spinning of the Raspberry Pi success. Even though Raspberry Pi got the throne much thanks to it’s simplicity and relatively ease of use, compared to for example the Odroid, it has […]
Hackviking aka Kristofer Källsbo 