Category Archives: Raspberry Pi

Raspberry Pi 0 W Kit from Amazon

Posted on January 9, 2020 by larry

I have been having a heck of a time getting these Raspberry Pi 0 W from Adafruit, so I bit the bullet and purchased a kit. I purchased two kits to finally get my bike club set up to the … Continue reading →

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Getting Pi Zero W going

Posted on January 6, 2020 by larry

Starting to go through each Pi Zero and getting them set up. My processes are not 100% clean. I need to redo this process a few times and get them all set up.

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Blesentry Count

Posted on January 3, 2020 by larry

For my Blesentry project I am almost at the count level I wanted to be at for Raspberry Pis I have 5 production nodes for the checkpoint nodes and couple I need for home. I wanted 9 total for the … Continue reading →

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Load Testing BLE

Posted on December 26, 2019 by larry

I was able to graph more than 50 BLE devices for a couple of hours on a Raspberry Pi Zero W It worked. A few more BLE and I will be at capacity.

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Pi 4 vs Thin Client

Posted on December 23, 2019 by larry

I finally set up my Raspberry Pi today, and it got me thinking which was cheaper, the Pi or a Thin Client. So I made an apples to oranges comparison, because under certain conditions, one or the other would be … Continue reading →

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End of Year Here

Posted on December 20, 2019 by larry

This was a fast year, time for reflection and to plan for next year. Almost finish with my pi project but came across another one that I thought of, a pi zero that can act as a personal firewall. Also … Continue reading →

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Bad Cables for Pi

Posted on December 19, 2019 by larry

Frustrating, but there is a bad cable in my batch. Wasted time trying to figure out why I could not get access to the usb ethernet interface. I put it away, it was a good brand too. Now to document … Continue reading →

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Getting Hard To Get Tags

Posted on December 17, 2019 by larry

These tags in boxes are getting harder to find. I am confident I will have enough. My search to find a box to contain them all continues though. I thought I finally found one at harbor freight but it had … Continue reading →

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Going to Pi4

Posted on December 12, 2019 by larry

Was thinking about using Pi4 for sensors around the house, but did not realize it had a bunch of changes. Different Power Supply, different video, different case. May get one or two for a NAS, but I think that is … Continue reading →

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Need More Tags and Pis

Posted on December 10, 2019 by larry

I have about 60 tags and 9 Raspberry Pi’s. Of those 9 Pis two will be spares and considered development boxes. As I site here I count 3 of the 9 are here. On the way are 4 more. So … Continue reading →

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