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Raspberry Pi

23 posts
Jan 2017 – Sep 2024

Consider the risks before making any dramatic changes to your Raspberry Pi setup

In my blog posts about making long-running Raspberry Pis more reliable, I've suggested a number of changes. Some of these are pretty large, dramatic changes; others are tiny and unremarkable. With any intervention, it's important to consider the risks involved and weigh them against your personal r…

Choosing the right SD card for your Pi

There are thousands of dirt-cheap, no-name microSD cards available. Don't use them.

Fixing excessive Pi-hole lighttpd access log size when Netdata is installed

Part of the Raspberry Pi Reliability series. Not running out of disk space is an important aspect of keeping tiny Linux machines with limited storage and RAM running reliably for extended time periods. On most Raspberry Pis and similar devices, I keep /var/log in RAM, either with a straightforward …

Reconsidering Netdata

Reconsidering where and how I install the open-source system monitoring tool, Netdata.

Reducing SD Card Wear on a Raspberry Pi or Armbian Device

A guide to reducing SD card wear for a more reliable Raspberry Pi installation.

PiKVM Build

Part of the Project Logs series. For the past few years, every once in a while I'd search something like "IP KVM," look at the prices, and remember why I always quickly abandoned this search. Until sometime earlier this year, that is, when I stumbled across …

Environmental Data Logging to InfluxDB using BME280/AM2301 Sensors on Raspberry Pi

Part of the Home Energy and Environment Monitoring series. I've deployed a couple sensors outdoors to log temperature, humidity, and atmospheric pressure data to InfluxDB. This is partly because I'd like to keep a history of temperature/humitidy/pressure (weather forecasts are easy to find and …

Monitoring aircraft via ADS-B on OS X

I recently set up an ADS-B monitoring rig on a Mac Mini at home. This post documents the process I went through to allow monitoring aircraft and feeding information to several flight tracking websites.