Category Archives: Cloud

Installing Nextcloud on RPi

Posted on March 9, 2023 by robertwilkie

If you can find a RPi to do this with that is. I use OpenMediaVault myself, but tempting to switch over to this. https://www.makeuseof.com/raspberry-pi-nextcloud/

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Turn an Old Phone Into a Smart Doorbell Camera With Facial Recognition

Posted on November 18, 2021 by robertwilkie

The phone is basically turned into a wifi camera, an RPI is used for an image server, and then cloud based apps for the rest. https://www.open-electronics.org/turn-an-old-phone-into-a-smart-doorbell-camera-with-facial-recognition/

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Make an interactive stand for your Google Home

Posted on March 26, 2018 by robertwilkie

OK the site is thingiverse, but the video with the device to print gives a nice how to build the system.  Basically you are using a Digispark as the controller with multi colored LEDS. https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2817612

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Getting Serial data from Arduion ot RPi to MySQL with CoAP

Posted on June 6, 2017 by robertwilkie

I have heard bits about CoAP in the past, never thought past that.  Looks like CoAP could be a good simple interface for IoT builds.  This one is getting sensor data out to the rest of the system https://www.instructables.com/id/Serial-Data-From-Arduino-to-Raspberry-Pi-to-MySQL-/

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Turn an RPi into a Google Assistant

Posted on May 17, 2017 by robertwilkie

Not as nice as the real thing, but it gets the job done.  Looks like you can even do this with the origianl RPi’s too. https://www.instructables.com/id/Google-Assistant-on-a-Raspberry-Pi/ Oh and go here for adding a button to it https://www.instructables.com/id/Button-Trigger-for-Google-Assistant-on-the-Raspber/

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Good intro into setting up Container Linux

Posted on April 13, 2017 by robertwilkie

I.E. Core Linux.  Its a nice write-up on how to set it up and create containers. http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/what-is-container-linux/

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Dataplicity, a VPN/SSH connection for RPi

Posted on December 26, 2016 by robertwilkie

Interesting tool.  I don’t think its open source but it sounds like a nice way to remotely ssh into machines. Dataplicity lets you access your Raspberry Pi from anywhere

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Google Home sounds pretty neat

Posted on November 7, 2016 by robertwilkie

The initial reviews of Google Home sound pretty good.  Only thing I don’t like is its tied to one account.  But still…tempting at $130…I may wait to see if a black friday sale on them goes on. Google Home brings … Continue reading →

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Nice write-up on setting up Docker on RPi

Posted on September 27, 2016 by robertwilkie

Nice write up on how to get setup and running with Docker on a Raspberry Pi http://blog.alexellis.io/5-things-docker-rpi/

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Interesting cloud tools for linux

Posted on May 10, 2016 by robertwilkie

Mostly different ways to store stuff in the cloud.  Some you can run yourself at home. http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/10-cloud-solutions-using-linux/ Oh the “plug” is here http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1543247

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