Software Raspberry Pi Setup

This post will show you how to setup a Raspberry Pi Setting up the PI Its very simple to setup a SD card for a Raspberry Pi: Reformat the entire SD card to FAT32 Download the latest version of Raspbian Lite from here Use a program, like Etcher to write the zip/iso to your newly formatted SD card At this point you can bootup your newly formatted Raspberry Pi, but I always complete these additional two steps to get SSH access working on my Raspberry Pi and enabling WiFi connecting for the Raspberry Pis that support Wireless Internet (Raspberry Pi 3 and Raspberry Pi Zero W):...

June 22, 2021 · 2 min · Zach Andrews

How to Setup a Raspberry Pi Samba Server

This guide will help you set up a Samba server on your Raspberry Pi. Once this is setup and configured you can send files to your Raspberry Pi remotly Setting up Samba on your Pi First make sure your pi is up to date by running these two commands sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade Next we install Samba sudo apt-get install samba samba-common-bin Now we need to create a folder that we will share....

June 8, 2021 · 3 min · Zach Andrews

Mounting an External Harddrive to Your Rabsperry Pi

Mounting the drive Once you have your Pi up and running you can mount an external storage device to it. Find your drive with this command. Mine in this example is at /dev/sda1 sudo fdisk -l Install NTFS-3g if you havent already sudo apt-get install ntfs-3g Create the directory you want to mount sudo mkdir /media/plex Manage that directorys owner sudo chown pi:pi /media/plex Mount the drive sudo mount -t ntfs-3g -o uid-pi,gid-pi /dev/sda1 /media/plex Making the mount permanent Now the hard drive is mounted to your pi....

June 8, 2021 · 1 min · Zach Andrews

Setting up a static website

This post will give you step by step instructions on how to set up a static website, like this one, and host it for free. Technologies I used Hugo Netlify Github Setup Make sure you have Hugo installed Mac: brew install hugo Linux: sudo apt-get install hugo If you do not already have a Netlify account, create one here Using hugo Create a new project for your website hugo new site my-site Add this new site to a Github repo cd my-site git init -b main git add ....

May 10, 2021 · 3 min · Zach Andrews

About

Professional My name is Zach Andrews, I am a software engineer specializing in cloud infrastructure. I have been a professional developer since 2015 after graduating from Colorado State University with a bachelors in Computer Science. Currently, I am work on creating, designing and managing software infrastructure. However, I also enjoy working on system automation and software development. I also have a bachelors degree in Economics which was inspired by my love for business development....

May 9, 2021 · 1 min · Zach Andrews

Plex Media Server

This post will show you how to setup up a Plex media server on a Raspberry Pi Setting up the PI Its very simple to setup a SD card for a Raspberry Pi: Reformat the entire SD card to FAT32 Download the latest version of Raspbian Lite from here Use a program, like Etcher to write the zip/iso to your newly formatted SD card At this point you can bootup your newly formatted Raspberry Pi, but I always complete these additional two steps to get SSH access working on my Raspberry Pi and enabling WiFi connecting for the Raspberry Pis that support Wireless Internet (Raspberry Pi 3 and Raspberry Pi Zero W):...

May 7, 2021 · 4 min · Zach Andrews