Xiaomi MiFlora is a cost-effective plant sensor, which uses Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) to communicate wirelessly, and is capable of sensing temperature, soil humidity, light, soil fertility and it’s own battery level.
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This one-liner checks the current sum of download speed of all torrents currently running in transmission-daemon. You can also direct the output to a file, to have a logfile of it.
There’s a feature in network cards, which allows to power on a PC if a certain “magic packet” is received on the physical (MAC) address of the network interface.
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The RTL8188eu WiFi chip is not supported in Raspbian Lite out of the box, so we need a few things to make it work, but I’ll show you how. (more…)
I got an ad-supported version Kindle 4 as a gift, but the ads bothered me, so I’ll show how to remove them.
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I’m a Site Relibility Engineer, with passion for Automation & DevOps. I’m also a smarthome enthusiast, and on this blog I publish bits and pieces of my projects.