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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 as a torrent server
Posted on September 15, 2015 Leave a Comment
A Raspberry Pi is a great for creating an always on torrent box that can take care of all your downloading and seeding. If you combine it with a NAS and a Raspberry Pi Kodi media center you will have a really sweat setup. The Raspberry Pi has a low power consumption, I run my […]
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