RaspberryPi

This guide will help you set up Home Assistant to run as a docker container on your Raspberry Pi Prerequisites Raspberry Pi with a running Raspbian OS SSH connection enabled To do this you can check Raspberry Pi Setup Installing Docker First of all make sure that the system runs the latest version of the software. sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade Install Docker curl -sSL https://get.docker.com | sh Add a Non-Root User to the Docker Group...

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....

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....

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):...