Raspberry Pi

My roof has a Platinum 3100S solar inverter (made by Diehl AKO). I recently installed a Solar-Log 500 to read its production and feed the numbers into Home Assistant — it works, but it’s a black …

The first two parts of the 3-2-1 backup rule are easy: three copies, on two different media. I had that covered with the Borg backup strategy on my home server — nightly Borg archives on a local USB …

We have all heard the mantra: backups are important, test your backups, follow the 3-2-1 rule. But actually implementing a backup strategy that works reliably, alerts you when something goes wrong, …

I’ve always wanted a door bell that could e-mail me a picture whenever someone came to my door. This should be fairly easy using a Raspberry Pi, so I built one. Here’s the build log and code if you …

Here’s an overview of how to install vscp_software on a Raspberry Pi. It is based on the tutorial on setting up the VSCP daemon on Unix . I’m not only giving the commands but also the verbose output …

This post documents how I have set up my Raspberry Pi (model B+) for double duty as a VSCP daemon server and a pimped doorbell. This page is mostly for my own reference. Static IP # Find the DHCP …