Hi, I would strongly discourage you from manually setting IP addresses on each machine -- as mentioned it makes your network very difficult to maintain and manage. If you do do this, then definitely disable DHCP on your router as well -- otherwise your router could assign a DHCP address that conflic...

Thanks for the reply. The 3G connection is achieved with a USB dongle - when the connection is started, AutoSSH establishes a tunnel back to the server and forwards the MySQL server port from RPi -> Server. AutoSSH will periodically check the connection and re-establish if the tunnel drops out. Soft...

Hi all, I'm currently doing a ground-up rebuild of a vehicle and thought it'd be interesting to build my own Car Alarm / music player / data logger using a raspberry pi. Disclaimer: I work in IT and have a background in programming. I am familiar with 12V car systems - at least older ones -- but a l...

Hi, I spent an hour or so diagnosing the same issue and thought I'd sign up so that others don't have to spend as long on it. In my case I noticed that, on boot, gpsd wasn't running with the appropriate command line flags, e.g.: pi@raspberrypi ~ $ ps aux | grep gps nobody 2203 0.0 0.3 4968 1616 ? S<...