I live in Texas. Most of the year, we have no use for a fireplace as temperatures frequently get over 100 degrees Fahrenheit. However, I have always enjoyed having a fireplace going for ambiance. One day I was sitting in my living room and noticed that the fireplace was about…
There are many cases where I really wanted a way to have WIFI over the GPIO pins on the Raspberry Pi instead of having to use a USB dongle. This is a method to use a cheap and common ESP8266 module to get full GPIO wifi for ALL versions of…
One of the things I use my Raspberry Pis for the most is setting up a “Kiosk”. What I like to do is make a website, either on the web or hosted on the pi itself, and show that website full screen on boot. This is a fun little project…
As of the time of this writing, the version of Node JS that comes with Raspbian is v 0.10.29. It has some bugs and is an old version considering the latest stable version is v6.x.x and the latest LTS version is v4.4.4 LTS (as of the time of this writing).…
Samba is a program that shares files from a Linux computer on a Windows network. It works great on the Raspberry Pi and is the easiest way to transfer files to your Pi from a windows computer. This tutorial will describe how to setup Samba on Raspbian.
The way you set a static IP address has changed from Raspbian Wheezy to Raspbian Jessie. This is how you set a static IP in Raspbian Jessie. This tutorial works for a Pi connected via ethernet, but you can follow a similar approach for a Pi connected over wifi. First,…
This is a little tutorial to install Mosquitto Broker on Raspberry Pi Raspbian Wheezy and Jessie. So what is Mosquitto? As stated on their website. Mosquitto is an open source (EPL/EDL licensed) message broker that implements the MQTT protocol versions 3.1 and 3.1.1. MQTT provides a lightweight method of carrying…