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gerdesj

You don't really ask a question. Anyway, if you want to safely shutdown and restart a Linux system that is unresponsive then try this: Hold down ALT+SYSREQ and then type the letters r, e, i, s, u, b . Wait a few seconds after the "s" on a RPI because sync can take a while on a CF card. If nothing ha...

gerdesj

Is this what you need: https://unix.stackexchange.com/question ... ar-via-cli

gerdesj

All my Pis are running headless and I don't have a LXDE desktop handy. However according to this: http://wiki.lxde.org/en/LXPanel you should be able to: "Basic configuration of LXPanel can be done with the GUI preference configuration dialog. Just right click on the panels, and you can access the co...

gerdesj

It can do both but it's not really the best tool for the job. The glaring problem is there are no hard discs. To add one will be via a USB port - not quick. The NIC is 100Mb which may limit you as well. The processor is ARM based, so if Plex is not already in the software repo (the Ubuntu binaries o...

gerdesj

I don't have a Mac I'm afraid but the main file system on your SD card is probably "ext4". However there is a small /boot partition (on mine it is called /dev/mmcblk0p6 - ie the sixth partition) and that is "vfat" and your Mac will almost certainly be able to read and write that. Unfortunately it is...

gerdesj

perhaps you could add the script to etc/rc.local ? That is great for daemons (background services) but epiphany wont know where to send it's output. Starting it from rc.local will probably mean that it will run as root. root is unlikely to have the DISPLAY environment variable set to indicate which...

gerdesj

Have a look here: http://www.karlrunge.com/x11vnc/faq.htm ... onfig-file specifically Q-8. That should get you started.

Cheers
Jon

gerdesj

Yes, but this isn't the place to ask. XBMC is a package developed by http://kodi.tv/ The code is here: https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc so you could do it yourself 8) However, I would suggest posting a query here: http://forum.kodi.tv/ If your suggestion is taken up then eventually it will make it to yo...

gerdesj

Yes Hardware: Provided your screen has a HDMI input (if not, there are HDMI to DVI converters available). Also your mouse and keyboard should have USB connectors. Now if what you actually mean is: "can I somehow control my Pi on another machine" then also yes! You have several options. Command promp...

gerdesj

"neat idea for a university project" If it's for a uni project then you need to do some research and asking here is unlikely to get your project done for you. Start by considering what data you can gather. Any Linux based wifi connection will probably involve wpa-supplicant and that spits out a fair...

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The real test of signal quality is to use it. Any problems? You asked the wrong question! You should have said: "my requirement is this xxxx but I only get this yyyy. How do I get xxxx closer to yyyy?" Consider using iperf for a better idea of real world performance. I'll grant you that the docs are...

gerdesj

This isn't really a beginner question, nor is it really a RPi thing. However ... fbset is used to set the resolution of the framebuffer and that starts at the top left. The rest of your questions will almost certainly be answered by general searching on the web. Raspian (I assume) is very similar to...

gerdesj

Well Mr Feral-Nerd, (cool name!) Your daemon should be aware of all <vendor>/<product> pairs but you might defer to an admin provided /etc/daemon.conf or similar. As to whether you get a series of /proc or /sys thingies to play with, that is down to the drivers. Have a look at the source - it's not ...

gerdesj

In your post you say several things that you want to do. It would be better if you ask one question. You do not tell us what is wrong. Start again. Post a question for VNC. Post a question for Apache. Post a question for your access points. If you ask a simple question then you will get an answer. Y...

gerdesj

"All help is appreciated."

We'd all love to help but you haven't actually asked a question. You were probably so deeply into the problem that when you posted, you forgot to actually ask it - good skills 8)

Cheers
Jon

gerdesj

I'm not sure that this post is in the right place. You might want to put it into one of the forums under Projects or Hardware and Peripherals.

gerdesj

You need a DS2406 or DS2413. They have programmable/readable GPIO pins. Hang one off your one-wire bus and connect your door switch to it. Use the OWFS drivers on the Pi to query the state of the GPIO on the chip. I've just had a quick look at those devices and they look like what I need. There is ...

gerdesj

I have a RPi2 with an interface card plugged over the GPIO pins with several 1wire buses on it (http://www.sheepwalkelectronics.co.uk/product_info.php?cPath=22&products_id=67). I've used one for temperature sensors. I would like to be able to be able to detect when the door to the computer room this...

gerdesj

This topic is quiet since several months now. Is it solved or just abandoned? If it's solved (preferably without kernel patches) I'd like to hear about it. Again: I want several 1W buses with several slaves on each 1W bus. The reason I want several 1W buses is that the location of the slaves (tempe...

gerdesj

... .bashrc is one of the scripts which a BASH shell will run on login. ... Forgive the nitpick, but "login" and "startup" are not the same thing. If your system is set for auto-login then it will start a shell shortly after boot, but you can start a bash session (ie. a terminal) any time (in fact ...

gerdesj

After login type ls -la (the a will show all files, including hidden ones). Look for a file called .bashrc - the leading dot makes it a hidden file, ie it wont list normally unless you tell ls otherwise. .bashrc is one of the scripts which a BASH shell will run on login. See https://unix.stackexchan...

gerdesj

There are quite a few howtos and docs relating to how apt works. Investigate "apt-cache": eg http://www.tecmint.com/useful-basic-commands-of-apt-get-and-apt-cache-for-package-management/ apt-cache policy raspberrypi-bootloader raspberrypi-bootloader: Installed: 1.20150923-1 Candidate: 1.20150923-1 V...

gerdesj

According to this: http://www.makershed.com/products/make-getting-started-with-raspberry-pi-deluxe-kit that kit comes with NOOBS 1.4. The current version is 1.5. The wifi should just work. There's a little applet in LXDE which can be used to control the SSID and password - you should not have to tou...

gerdesj

Type this and hit enter: ls -l /etc/init.d You will get a listing of all the files in that directory. If you do not see one that is called VPNConnection then you need to create that file. You may find that you have mistyped its name in some way. Note that Linux is case sensitive so VPNconnection is ...

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