Monitoring download speed of a network interface on Raspbian
I needed to check the download speed on of an interface on my Raspberry Pi, so I have used a tool called speedometer to do so.
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Xiaomi MiFlora plant sensor in Pimatic
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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Logging download speed of transmission-daemon
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.
Setting up WiFi using an RTL8188eu dongle on Raspberry Pi Zero
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…)
Kindle 4 Ad blocking
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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Temperature/humidity sensor DHT22 (AM2302) using AdafruitDHT
Home automation projects often there is a need to measure the temperature and humidity of the air. This can be done with e.g. the DHT11 or the more advanced DHT22 sensors.
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HI, I’M ANDRÁS!
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.