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Raspberry Ri Touch Screen setup right click with twofing – Raspbian Jessie
Unfortunately, the Raspberry Pi 7 Touchscreen does not support right-click or long touch if used with Raspbian Jessie. You can add this functionality by using a two-finger touch on the Touchscreen with the program Twofing. More
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Official Raspberry Pi 7″ Touch Screen LCD Display assembly guide – install and tips
This tutorial will show you how to assemble your Raspberry Pi Touchscreen, which power supply options are available and a few helpful hints. Required parts: original 7 inch LCD Touchscreen for Raspberry Pi A Raspberry Pi A+,B+, Pi 2, or Pi 3 Micro USB power adapter with a minimum of 2A Micro SD card with […] More
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Auto start Midori Browser in Fullscreen Kiosk Modus – Raspberry Pi Linux
I will show you in this tutorial how to start the Midori Browser in full screen mode (kiosk mode) automatically after the Raspberry booted. The graphical shell (desktop) of Rapsian will not be required or started. A pratical applicaton of this would be, for example, an info monitor on an exhibition. In this project, I […] More
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Automatic mount hard drive or usb stick on Raspberry Pi
Requirements: Raspbian or similar distribution USB hard drive or Memory stick with a partition (NTFS/Fat32/HFS+/Ext4) More
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Enable UART Port on Raspberry Pi
By standard the UART interface is configured as serial console. If you want to use the UART interface for other things, e.g. for a GPS module, the standard function needs to be deactivated. More
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Guide to Installing Node.js on a Raspberry Pi
Node.js is a open source platform to create network applications using JavaScript. The applications are executed on the server and not as usual on the client in the browser. Integrated modules, such as the HTTP-module, enable the realisation of web servers. Additional modules can be simply installed using the supplied package manager npm. Update 04.09.2016: […] More
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Spin Down and Manage Hard Drive Power on Raspberry Pi – sleep hdd hd-idle
This is an example how you to set the hard drive into a standby or hibernate mode after a defined time. This saves power and protects the hard drive in continuous or server use. Requirements: A mounted USB hard drive (Tutorial) More
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FHEM Tip #1: update and restart button in FHEM sidebar
Click on Edit files in the side bar and then fhem.cfg Copy the following code into the fhem.cfg file and click on save fhem.cfg. attr WEB menuEntries Update,cmd=update,UpdateCheck,cmd=update+check,Restart,cmd=shutdown+restart After the page was reloaded, three new menue entries should appear in the side bar, namely Update: updated FHEM to the most recent version (requires restart) UpdateCheck: […] More
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Install FHEM on a Raspberry Pi or Debian Linux
What is FHEM? FHEM is a open source server for home automation that is written in Perl. It can perform repeating tasks at home, such as, switching lights, heating, rolling shutters. It can also record an visualise data such as temperature, humidity, power consumption. More
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Show sunrise and sunset time in FHEM
In this tutorial I will guide you how to show the sunrise time in FHEM Prerequesites: – a working FHEM version More
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Install Discourse with Docker in a Subfolder with SSL and serve other content with nginx under the same domain
Discourse is a great free and open-source forum software. There is an Linux installation guide with docker, but Discourse runs with a subdomain like discourse.example.com. I want Discourse run in a subfolder like example.com/forum. There is a guide how to do this, but how to configure the nginx server to serve other content (example.com/index.html or […] More