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Raspbian Jessie: Set a static IP-address
Posted on June 12, 2016 3 Comments
For many of my projects on the Raspberry Pi a static, or fixed, IP-address has been needed. Here is a quick tutorial on how to set it up. This is aimed for SSH users who have no GUI on there Pi. Before you configured this by editing the network interfaces config file but not any […]
HifiBerry Dac on Raspberry Pi OpenElec Kodi
Posted on June 3, 2016 Leave a Comment
Have been experiencing static noise from the analog output on my Raspberry Pi for some time. Tested several different power sources and it came to a point where I wasn’t sure if the noise has always been present or not. In the end I got a HifiBerry Dac+ and some decent cables and the issue […]
Raspberry Pi: Wifi AP-client
Posted on April 20, 2016 Leave a Comment
You have a wifi connection but need an Ethernet connection or need to share it with several computers over Ethernet? That can be easily accomplished with a Raspberry Pi. Sometimes I need two different internet connection for testing different setups. In addition to my own internet connection there is community wifi in public areas in […]
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 […]
BtSync: Let my NAS sleep
Posted on March 11, 2016 Leave a Comment
BitTorrent Sync (btsync) will re-index all files every 10 minutes to look for new files to sync. After installing btsync on Raspberry Pi initially and then ending up running it on an Odroid-C1 my WD NAS never sleeps. The first 48 hours it was expected since it took all that time to index all the […]
Raspberry Pi: BitTorrent sync alternative Syncthing
Posted on March 10, 2016 Leave a Comment
Btsync is a great tool for syncing data and backups to several different locations. By leveraging the torrent technology you can increase the download/upload speeds by adding more nodes to the swarm. Installing Btsync on a built in system like the Raspberry Pi or Odroid-C1 is a challenge since it consumes a lot of system […]
Raspberry Pi: BitTorrent Sync
Posted on March 8, 2016 5 Comments
BitTorrent is not only pirated movies and tv-shows it’s an actual technology for moving large amounts of data between several nodes at once. There are several applications for this sync technology. Large companies like Facebook use it to sync new releases among all their production servers for example. If three or more nodes are syncing […]
Raspberry PI: Central kodi database
Posted on February 16, 2016 8 Comments
When you run more then one Kodi device with a shared media repository you should also run a shared library. With a shared library you only need to update the library on one of the Kodi devices when new media is added. There are a few other great benefits of running a shared library like […]
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