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A collection of 11 posts

Mini Guide: DHCP Controlled Hostname on Raspbian

Mini Guide: DHCP Controlled Hostname on Raspbian

DHCP Controlled Hostname on Raspbian Note: This note was originally in the Network Booting a Raspberry Pi 3 from an Ubuntu Server post. In theory the configuration should be as simple as stated below: { ... host pi3-1 { hardware ethernet b8:27:eb:41:8e:fa; fixed-address 192.168.1.59; option

Mini Guide: DHCP Reservations

Mini Guide: DHCP Reservations

DHCP Reservations Note: This note was originally in the Network Booting a Raspberry Pi 3 from an Ubuntu Server post. To make life easier DHCP Address reservations can be added in the main body of the DHCP config so that each MAC Address gets assigned the same IP: { ... host pi3-1

Mini Guide: Pi User and Management User(s)

Mini Guide: Pi User and Management User(s)

Pi User and Management User(s) Note: This note was originally in the Raspberry Pi 2/3: Chromium in Kiosk mode post. Auto-login to the GUI works regardless of the pi user's password. It is worth changing this for security, potentially creating a management user which requires a

Mini Guide: Raspberry Pi Memory Split

Mini Guide: Raspberry Pi Memory Split

Memory Split Note: This note was originally in the Raspberry Pi 2/3: Chromium in Kiosk mode post. The memory available to the GPU can be configured by: * sudo raspi-config * Option 7 (Advanced) * Option A3 (Memory Split) This may be useful when rendering more visually-intensive pages.

Mini Guide: Raspberry Pi Overscan and HDMI Modes

Mini Guide: Raspberry Pi Overscan and HDMI Modes

Overscan and HDMI Modes Note: This note was originally in the Raspberry Pi 2/3: Chromium in Kiosk mode post. In some cases the image may not fill the screen. The overscan setting below can help, as well as forcing certain HDMI modes as document [here](From https://www.raspberrypi.

Mini Guide: Raspberry Pi Serial Console

Mini Guide: Raspberry Pi Serial Console

Serial console Note: This note was originally in the Raspberry Pi, overlayfs read-write root, read-only NFS base post. It's quite easy to listen on the serial console as you don't have to worry about the voltage differences. Full documentation here. I have many Prolific Technology, Inc.

Mini Guide: Easier Script Debugging

Mini Guide: Easier Script Debugging

Debugging Note: This note was originally in the Raspberry Pi, overlayfs read-write root, read-only NFS base post. In trying to get the various options out there working I found a number of debugging strategies helpful, they're mostly simple - First, set -v - put this after the #!/bin/

Mini Guide: Read only Raspberry Pi (without NFS)

Mini Guide: Read only Raspberry Pi (without NFS)

Without NFS Note: This note was originally in the Raspberry Pi, overlayfs read-write root, read-only NFS base post. This setup described in the article above also works without the NFS setup. As we plan to have no 'proper' storage and RAM limits the size of writes we can

Mini Guide: Watching the file-system on Linux

Mini Guide: Watching the file-system on Linux

Watching the file-system Note: This note was originally in the Raspberry Pi, overlayfs read-write root, read-only NFS base post. NFS logging appeared to be quite opaque to me, so it proved useful to be able to observe the relevant file-system activity. We can watch the file-system activity (when the Pi

Raspberry Pi 2/3: Chromium in Kiosk mode

Raspberry Pi 2/3: Chromium in Kiosk mode

Introduction At work we have a number of screens around the office used for monitoring. To keep the costs down, solution versatile and setup simple the plan was always to use a Raspberry Pi per screen to display data in a browser (Kiosk Mode). To manage configuration and updates without

Network Booting a Raspberry Pi 3 from an Ubuntu Server

Network Booting a Raspberry Pi 3 from an Ubuntu Server

Introduction I often use Raspberry Pis as Chromium Kiosk Clients to monitor our systems and infrastructure, and to reduce the overheads I also Network Boot them for this and a few other uses (hopefully coming soon) so that they are easy to manage collectively without needing to flash numerous SD