Tag: Raspberry Pi

HOW-TO Easily Install and Secure MariaDB MySQL Server

HOW-TO Easily Install and Secure MariaDB MySQL Server

This HOW-TO is an easy step-by-step guide to getting a MySQL server working on a Raspberry Pi including setting up user authentication. If you haven’t yet set up your Pi here’s a HOW-TO: http://tinab.blog/how-to-headless-pi-easy-setup You can skip this step but it’s a useful base that ensures a good start: http://tinab.blog/how-to-install-a-standard-base-linux-server-on-raspberry-pi Start by updating (if you …

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HOW-TO Easily Install and Secure mosquitto MQTT on Raspberry Pi

HOW-TO Easily Install and Secure mosquitto MQTT on Raspberry Pi

This HOW-TO is an easy step-by-step guide to getting an MQTT broker working on a Raspberry Pi including TLS and user authentication. If you haven’t yet set up your Pi here’s a HOW-TO: http://tinab.blog/how-to-headless-pi-easy-setup You can skip this step but it’s a useful base that ensures a good start: http://tinab.blog/how-to-install-a-standard-base-linux-server-on-raspberry-pi Start by updating (if you …

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HOW-TO Install a Reliable Base Server on Raspberry Pi

HOW-TO Install a Reliable Base Server on Raspberry Pi

Setting up the basic items I use on every server installation. Start with a headless Raspberry Pi installation as per this HOW-TO: http://tinab.blog/how-to-headless-pi-easy-setup Once on an ethernet connection, disable WiFi & set a hostname add the following Set an appropriate hostname in raspi-config Update the system Install Samba and create a share add the following …

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How-to: Headless Pi easy setup

How-to: Headless Pi easy setup

Raspberry Pi, SD card, PSU, card reader and a laptop with WiFi and Internet – set up and deploy without ever using any local peripherals (unless you can call its power supply a peripheral) While this set of instructions is easily found all over the web I’ve put it in one place for my own …

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Raspberry Pi Imager – destination full

Raspberry Pi Imager – destination full

Have you ever tried to start from scratch – write a new Raspbian image to an SD card you’ve used before? Unless I’m alone an existing image causes Raspberry Pi Imager to report “Destination disk full” and will not allow you to override that even if you don’t care that it’s already full. (At least …

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Report my Raspberry Pi model

Report my Raspberry Pi model

How to identify Raspberry Pi model details from the command line. Or, to put it another way, which Pi did I SSH into? To get the model: then read the revision from the table –OR– Then lookup the revision from https://elinux.org/RPi_HardwareHistory To get RAM details (if you have a Pi 4 with 2GB and a …

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