When I moved into a new apartment, I was faced with a new (absolute luxury) problem. My old MagicMirror, which I had previously installed in my bathroom cabinet, couldn't move with me because [...]
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Category: Raspberry Pi
All tips and articles incl. material lists around the topic Raspberry Pi.
HowTo: OpenMediaVault – Install PhotoPrism via Docker on the Raspberry Pi
PhotoPrism is a very cool piece of software that you can use to manage your photo collection locally. Once set up, your photos will be scanned and categorized using AI models. That means you […]
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HowTo: OpenMediaVault - Set up Windows share or SMB server
A NAS (Raspberry Pi – NetworkAttachedStorage / building a NAS with a Raspberry Pi 4 yourself) only becomes really practical if you can access it from anywhere in the network […]
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HowTo: Raspberry Pi - Show GPIO overview of the Raspberry Pi in the console
The Raspberry Pi is famous for many of its features. On the one hand there is the size, performance and (at times when there is no shortage of components) also the price for such a small practical […]
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HowTo: Node Red - Reading SMA Sunny Solar Inverter Data
In the articles Reading out data from an SMA EV CHARGER 22 Wallbox and Reading out Node Red – SMA Sunny Home Manager data, I had already described how to […]
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HowTo: OpenMediaVault - Configure and activate ClamAV virus scanner
As a Windows user, you are used to the fact that there is always a virus scanner watching somewhere in the background and immediately informs you about an infection with malware or already acts accordingly. I use [...]
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HowTo: Node Red - Reading SMA Sunny Home Manager Data
For some time now, my network (in addition to an SMA EV Charger 22 wallbox) has also included an SMA inverter for a photovoltaic system and an associated SMA Sunny Home Manager. The latter [...]
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HowTo: HowTo: Integrate Zigbee - Ikea TRADFRI Outlet E1603/E1702/E1708 via zigbee2mqtt in Node Red
The TRADFRI plug is a simple way to switch existing consumers such as lamps via your smart home system via Zigbee The consumer can be switched on and off. At the same time it acts [...]
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HowTo: NodeRed - Presence detection via ping requests
To be able to automate your own smart home sensibly, one function is quite important: Are residents present or not? Because only then can the system, for example, automatically turn the heaters [...].
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HowTo: Raspberry Pi - Using Docker Container with OpenMediaVault OMV and Portainer
Another practical advantage of OpenMediaVault is that you can easily add more features thanks to the prebuilt Docker and Portainer installation. Docker containers are a kind of software package that [...]
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HowTo: OpenMediaVault - Install DLNA Plugin for Media Streaming
In the article Raspberry Pi - Music streaming to the Raspberry Pi via DLNA client I already described how to use the Raspberry Pi as a playback device for content from a DLNA server [...].
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HowTo: OpenMediaVault - Set up external hard disk as drive
As the name of OpenMediaVault suggests, it is about managing media. For this you need of course also appropriate storage space. In the article NetworkAttachedStorage / NAS from a [...]
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HowTo: OpenMediaVault - Create another user
As soon as you work with OpenMediaVault and use different services and plugins it makes sense to create a new user. This way you can set access rights in a well-dosed way, which will ultimately [...]
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HowTo: Raspberry Pi - Evaluate MPR121 touch sensor via I2C and Node Red
Thanks to the I2C bus, the Raspberry Pi can be equipped with many practical sensors and actuators. One (in my opinion) very elegant possibility for user input is the MPR121. The [...]
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HowTo: OpenMediaVault - Enable HTTPS encryption for web access
After installing OpenMediaVault, the first thing you should do is enable HTTPS encryption for web access. This ensures that when you access the web interface of OMV all data [...].
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HowTo: Raspberry Pi - Get an overview of the available memory with NCDU
If you often work with large or many files on the Raspberry Pi, you will sooner or later face the problem that the available memory runs out. This is what happened to [...]
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HowTo: Node Red - Reading data from a SMA EV CHARGER 22 wallbox
Since a short time there is a SMA EV Charger 22 wallbox in my network. Primarily, of course, this is used to charge an electric car. Nevertheless, I was of course curious what values [...]
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HowTo: Raspberry Pi - Install OpenMediaVault OMV on the RaspberryPi
In the article RaspberryPi - NetworkAttachedStorage / Building a NAS from a RaspberryPi 4 I already described that the (relatively) new Raspberry Pi 4B is also very well suited [...].
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HowTo: Raspberry Pi - Build your own NetworkAttachedStorage / NAS with a Raspberry Pi 4
For the last few years, I've mostly relied on Synology NAS for home storage. These come with a fancy interface and can be configured easily but also in detail. Unfortunately, [...]
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HowTo: Raspberry Pi - Backup system SD card as image
As is often the case with backups, you usually only think about making one when it's too late. That's what happened to me the other day with a [...]
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HowTo: Raspberry Pi - Mount drive under Linux
As a user of the Raspberry Pi, sooner or later you stumble upon the question of how to connect and access a USB stick, external hard drive or SD card to the Raspberry Pi. [...]
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Raspberry Pi - Read unique ID of a Raspberry Pi
Normally, all data of a Raspberry Pi is stored on the inserted SD card. This has the advantage that you can easily insert a ready-to-use SD card into another Raspberry Pi [...].
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HowTo: NodeRed - Control and read out FRITZ DECT 200 socket using NodeRed
The FRITZ!Box is not only a very good router for the home network. Equipped with the right Smart Home accessories, it can also become the Smart Home center of your house […]
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HowTo: Node Red - Read out the temperature of the FRITZ! DECT Repeater 100
The FRITZ! I recently bought a DECT repeater to improve the range of my DECT phones. Unfortunately, my Fritz Box has to be in the basement, because […]
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HowTo: Fritz Box - Find out the AIN of your SmartHome device
SmartHome devices that are compatible with the FRITZ!Box are addressed via an AIN. This AIN is a unique identification number that is assigned to the respective device. For example, if you use […]
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HowTo: Raspberry Pi - Get Linux system information with Neofetch
If you ever find yourself in the situation of having to quickly collect the most important system information about your Raspberry Pi or another Linux system, Neofetch is a very helpful tool. With […]
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HowTo: NodeRed - Control FRITZ!DECT 500 RGB lamp with the help of NodeRed and FritzBox
Recently I had already tested the DECT radiator thermostat for the FritzBox and integrated it into my NodeRed installation. Therefore, I was of course curious how the FRITZ! DECT 500 RGB [...]
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HowTo: Node Red - Turn Raspberry Pi screen on and off
To make sure that my MagicMirror is only on when I really use it, I configured a small automation using NodeRed. So the screen is only turned on when [...]
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HowTo: Node Red – Control Spotify from NodeRed
What I really like about Spotify is that it's very networkable. You can play or control music or podcast on another device with just a few clicks. Thanks to the free possibility [...]
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HowTo: Electronics - Building a seven-segment digit "pxlDigit" from WS2812 LEDs
For another project, I urgently needed a relatively large number to display a time duration. This ultimately resulted in this small "sub-project". Because with the 3D printed frame described here [...]
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