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Raspberry Pi pains of the past
Posted on May 6, 2021 Leave a Comment
Don’t get me wrong, I love my Raspberry Pi’s and I have spent a lot of time on both successful and less successful projects. A lot has happened since 2012 when they first came out, more powerful hardware and much better software support. In the later years I have done everything from home automation projects, […]
OctoScreen on Adafruit PiTFT 320×240
Posted on April 17, 2021 1 Comment
Finally got around to moving my Ender 5 Plus, and it’s load power supply, out of my office. So more then ever I want OctoPrint up and running for remote monitoring of my setup. I had a Raspberry Pi 4 unused and found an old Adafruit PiTFT 320×240 touch screen in the scrap bin. Getting […]
Making docker swarm redundant
Posted on March 16, 2020 1 Comment
A basic docker swarm comes with two options for storage bind or volume. Both are persistent storage bot only on that node. So if the node fails and the swarm starts the task on a new node the data is lost. There are a few options to mitigate this with storage plugins for redundant storage. […]
Unifi Controller Docker backup
Posted on February 27, 2020 Leave a Comment
Currently running my Unifi Controller as a docker container which works great. If you ever ended up with a broken Unifi Controller or Cloud Key you know the hassle it is to re-adopt and re-provision all your network gear to get back to square one. You should really keep track of the automatic backups from […]
MySQL on Docker Swarm
Posted on February 26, 2020 1 Comment
For several applications around the house, I need a MySQL backend. The biggest database I run is about 60Mb of data for my Kodi media players. By using centralized storage like this I only need to update one of them when I add new media. Also convenient if I watch a movie in the living […]
Raspberry Pi Docker Swarm
Posted on February 25, 2020 6 Comments
For small home server applications like Hassio, Plex and headless BitTorrent boxes Raspberry Pi has been a great solution for years. I came to a point where I was running several ones with different software on it depending on it’s intended use. This, however, isn’t ideal for a number of reasons. Even though Raspberry Pis […]
New Relic Wallboard
Posted on January 3, 2018 Leave a Comment
New Relic is a very good tool to monitor you servers and applications with a bunch of metrics och features. If you landed on this page you probably already use it so I want go into any more details on it. There are things I love about it and things I hate about it, the […]
Raspberry Pi: Ubiquiti UniFi Controller
Posted on October 30, 2017 1 Comment
You can use Unifi Controller from your computer to configure and monitor your Ubiquiti access points but a cloud key is much nicer. The Unifi Cloud Key is basically just an ARM computer running of an SD-card. Sound familiar? So what’s the difference between that and a Raspberry Pi? Not much besides memory and price. […]
Kodi central db backup
Posted on March 20, 2017 2 Comments
Using a central database for all your Kodi media players is convenient. Only one of them need to scan for new content or you can even update the database straight away. It holds state across all the devices like paused movies, watched episodes etc. If you have a large library it takes time to scan […]
RaspberryPI: Print server
Posted on March 1, 2017 5 Comments
The goal for this build was to create a print server for my Brother HL-110 and Dymo LabelWriter 450 that could be used by both Mac and Windows. It turned out to be more tricky then I expected! After some research, testing and re-installs I came up with a solution that worked. It involves compiling […]
Hackviking aka Kristofer Källsbo 