Category Archives: Raspberry Pi

They are in production. Got my Adafruit order in and now I am able to get another node up. Also a student expressed interest in coding, going to see what I can do for her. Lot of things happened today, … Continue reading →

I was able to get a standalong BLE Sentry working acting as an AP using hostapd and the USB0 interface. The magic that made the networking work was having nohook wpa_supplicant in /etc/dhcpcd.conf Another thing was switching from isc-dhcp to … Continue reading →

Spent a huge chunk of the day getting the additional functions needed in my blesentry project working. Hardware Clock Services DHCP Local USB Access Still need DNS (maybe)

Got my Bluetooth Low Energy Kit setup. Need more Raspberry Pi zeros though, then it will be complete. Also dog is kind of weird, took him to vet today, and she said he may have an injured back. So crating … Continue reading →

I finally got documentation that works on installing my project on a Pi. Working on Linux for years, so it was pretty easy. Documentation is rough, and needs some refining but it is good enough at this stage. Building CentOS … Continue reading →

Spent a good chunk of the evening setting up an RRD graph for my BLE Sentry project. It is starting to come together. I know can view different time lines.

It works, and it works well. I got it sensing itag info and recording it to a graph via RRD. I don’t have a complete Bill of Materials but so far it is about $40 and that includes power supply, … Continue reading →

Here is a screen shot of the chart It works but I have to add the rrd data as a batch file. I am pretty sure I can figure out how to add it via python instead of some weird … Continue reading →

Saw I am collecting all this raw bluetooth data, but it is hard to figure out what is going on by just looking at the lines. I need a graph to make sense of things. Looking at converting csv data … Continue reading →