At my employer, an IT business, we are quite aware of energy consumption. Now, I …
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A Raspberry Pi-based weather station, publishing to an MQTT topic
This is mainly an iteration of a previous post A Raspberry Pi-based weather station, posting to WordPress (see there for details on the sensor) but this time publishing to an MQTT topic. Setting up the …
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Running Spotify on a Kid’s phone, without the age restriction
How to let your kids (under age 13) use spotify. And a what to allow in a pass-rule for a firewall at the same time.
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Remote access to a Microsoft Windows 10 Azure Virtual Machine (VM) with TeamViewer
Since I have set up my first Azure Windows VM, I wondered how to best access it. There are many options, with their own limitations: RDP (requires an internet-facing open port) Bastion (requires quite involved …
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Running NxFilter on a headless Raspberry Pi Zero W
Note: This post is mostly a revisit of my older post Running NxFilter on a headless Raspberry Pi, using the Zero W model and the current NxFilter version. NxFilter is the best free solution for a …
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Reading 14bit from an SI7021 temperature and humidity sensor
The Si7021-A20 is capable of providing up to 14bit resolution for temperature and up to 12bit for relative humidity, over an I2C connection. However, many examples on the internet only use 8bit. I tried to …
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A Raspberry Pi-based weather station, posting to WordPress
To finally do some hardware stuff again, I decided to create a simple weather station using one of these very small Raspberry Pi Zero modules. To publish the measurements to, I chose to use a …
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Setting up a Raspberry Pi Zero W/WH, the headless way, with Wifi and VNC enabled
Many have covered this (at least partially), but here’s my ultimate, minimal, quick guide to all the necessary parts, using a Linux box. Use the given commands in a Linux bash terminal. Get the image …
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LineageOS on a Samsung Galaxy Tab S2 9.7 Wi-Fi (2016)
Steps to install LineageOS on a Samsung Galaxy S2 Tablet
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Try .NET (from your Browser)
Just the other day, I learnt that .NET can now run in a browser (which got me flashes of silver light… but this time, it’s something else): It’s some kind of a sandbox, that executes …
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Getting rid of all the bloatware – on a SONY Xperia X Compact.
In a recent release of the german c’t magazine, under “Schlanker Roboter” they described the process of getting rid of the many bloatware that comes along with Android Smartphones today. I went with the method using …
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