May 5th, 2024 I really like the Pi My Life Up guides. https://pimylifeup.com/. Why do I like Pi My Life Up? The Pi My Life Up guides are simple & easy to follow. There are guides for most of the home projects to do with a Raspberry Pi. Instructions and examples for many useful projects…
Category: Raspberry Pi
How To Manage Your Home Lab with a Custom Domain, SSL, Pihole and Traefik
May 5th, 2024 I’ve been playing with my raspberry pies for awhile now and have found that accessing them has been a real pain. Managing the IP addresses caused me to keep lists, just to remember all of them. I ran into two issues: Tracking IPs has caused me to create lists, change lists, shortcuts,…
Install WordPress on a Pi, Debian, or Ubuntu server
You can create a WordPress site in a Virtual Machine and Make a Template of It! Setting up WordPress can be straight forward, and it can be confusing. This depends on the guide, & the depths that you go to when setting it up. These are the two sets of guides I referenced in setting…
getHomepage Now! A Dashboard for all services
I was recently cruising the YouTubes and found a dashboard for home labs that I have fallen in love with – https://gethomepage.dev/. Homepage is a great launchpad / landing page that allows you to have access to your services, links and a search bar all in one page. Homepage is also dynamic, by linking service’s…
Running Guacamole on a Raspberry Pi 4 (or 5)
Apache Guacamole is a clientless remote desktop gateway. It supports standard protocols like VNC, RDP, and SSH.They call it clientless because no plugins or client software are required, it runs straight out of a browser. Apache Guacamole Once it is up, running and configures, having all your logins at your fingertips is nice. It limits / removes memorizing…
Raspberry Pi and Realtime Backups Woo Hoo!
In a previous post I showed how to setup a working NFS drive and how to keep the shared folder available the Raspberry Pi reboots. NFS – Connecting a Raspberry Pi to a Synology Nas Now it’s time to do backups of my little pi(s). pi, pis, pies, whatever. The MicroSD cards that go in…
Using sshfs and Synology. I Can’t. Can You?
I tried to setup a ssh key to use sshsf. I’m sure plenty of people have done it and it works great. I couldn’t get it to work, I blame the Synology NAS. There are changes and additions particular to this NAS that I couldn’t follow. I use ssh keys to log into every pi I’ve…
NFS: Connecting a Raspberry Pi to a Synology NAS
Introduction I’m setting up backups for my all of my pies . To store the backups, I’m connecting the pi, pis, pies to my NAS using the NFS protocol. I couldn’t get sshsf to work with my Synology NAS. It was such a pain I gave up. Backups up to the NAS let’s me keep…
My thoughts on Raspberry Pi
I tend to get a bit obsessive. A lot obsessive. Just like the word obsessive means. On and off my obsessive behavior has been playing around with Linux. I own a few Raspberry Pi’s and every now and then I work on a project. There are really only so many easy Pi projects available to…