Tag: Raspberry Pi
Getting started with Home Assistant Core – Installing
This is my notes about how I installed Home assistant Core on a Raspberry Pi 3. Things are changing extremely fast in this community driven open source world of home automation. I don’t expect this to be relevant for very long… Index Introduction Prerequisites Install Home Assistant Core Onboarding Make Home Assistant run automatically Conclusion […]
MQTT Mosquitto – Raspberry Pi
Let’s get serious about sending messages between Raspberry Pis on your home network! Info. The code presented in this blogpost is now maintained here: https://github.com/raspberryfield/python-mqtt-examples-git. Index Prerequisites Introduction Install Mosquitto Testing Mosquitto Installing MQTT Python Library – Paho Write a Test Publisher Client Write a Test Subscriber Client Test the Publisher Client from another Device […]
DS18B20 Temperature Probe – Raspberry Pi
Let’s read the temperature with a DS18B20 Temperature Probe, connected to a Raspberry Pi! Index Introduction Prerequisites Hardware Setup Software Approach Using ‘w1thermsensor’ python library Conclusion Resources Introduction Recently I bought a DS18B20 Temperature Probe from my local electronic store. I want to do some temperature measures and this probe works outdoors, indoors, is waterproof, […]
Headless Raspberry Pi
Sometimes you want to use and be able to configure a single board computer (like the Raspberry Pi) without a monitor, keyboard, and mouse. Such a setup is called headless setup. This post will teach you how to do this. Index Introduction Prerequisites Configure Wi-Fi and ssh Get the IP address Connect via ssh using […]
Samba share Raspberry Pi
Want to learn how to share files between your Raspberry Pi and your PC? Read this post! Index Introduction Prerequisites Install samba Create a Share Test the Share Resources Introduction On a network, windows share files between computers and printers via something called the SMB protocol. (Under the hood, SMB uses the NetBIOS API to […]
Raspberry Pi – Getting Started with GPIO
Have you ever wondered what the row of pins on the Raspberry Pi is for? If ‘Yes’, this is the post to start with. This post will briefly explain what they are and provide a ‘Hello world’ example with a blinking LED. Index Prerequisites Introduction GPIO pinout Setup The Code Conclusion Resources Prerequisites Extremely basic […]
Getting started with Raspberry Pi – Installing Raspbian
In this post, we will cover all the details about how to install the official OS Raspbian on a Raspberry Pi. Index Introduction Prerequisites Get a SD card Format the SD card Download the OS – Raspbian Write the OS to the SD card Starting the Raspberry Pi Introduction Raspberry Pi (short form: Pi) is […]