My WMR88 Oregon Scientific Station unfortunately died a couple of weeks ago after almost 6 years working. I was very satisfied with this model but Oregon Scientific does not produce it anymore. The updated version, the WMR89, is compatible with the sensors of the old model but, surprisingly, their computer interfaces are completely different. Luckily some … Read more…
The Rasperry Pi does not have an on-board battery powered clock. While it is connected to internet, a NTP daemon updates the clock correctly. Otherwise, a fake-hwclock saves the current clock periodically to disk and loads it at startup. So, with high probability, after a power shortage the Raspberry Pi time will be inaccurate. For … Read more…
In previous post we saw how to reach your Raspberry Pi from any internet connection. However, you may have noted, that when trying to connect with your Raspberry Pi from a device in the same network, your browser timeouts without reaching your server. In this post we will cover the causes of this problem and how … Read more…
Accessing your Raspberry Pi from your home network is cool, but if you want to build a domotic system it must be reachable from any internet connection. In this post we will cover a very common method to easily access your Raspberry Pi over the internet from another computer or mobile device: DDNS. However, and before … Read more…
In this post we will cover how to remotely connect to the command line of your Raspberry Pi from another computer or device using SSH key-based authentication. We will start connecting to the Raspberry Pi from the same network. In this post we will discuss how to reach your Raspberry from outside the local network. Since … Read more…
In this post we will explain how to create a new user in Raspberry Pi by replacing the default one. The basic configuration of groups and permissions will also be discussed. It is a good and secure practice to change the default user pi and to create a new one, specially if you are going … Read more…
I started playing with my Raspberry almost a year ago. At the beginning I used it only as an entertainment centre to replace an old and very noisy HTPC. After some time I came up with the idea of connecting it to some gadgets that I have at home. Nowadays my Raspberry is the “core” … Read more…