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Month: September 2018

Raspberry Pi Pin Layout

September 25, 2018December 19, 2018 Peter ScargillRaspberry Pi pinout and SSD1306, SSD1306 and Node-Red38 Comments on Raspberry Pi Pin Layout

There I was, messing about with GPIO pins on my Raspberry Pi 3 B+ recently and as usual could not remember the pin numbers. I stumbled on this image below – thanks to @pinout for this handy Raspberry Pi connector layout (see link to Raspberry Pi site further down) and…

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FriendlyArm NanoPi M4

September 25, 2018December 23, 2018 Peter ScargillGeneral36 Comments on FriendlyArm NanoPi M4

Yesterday in the post came the singularly impressive-looking NanoPi M4 unit complete with supplied eMMC for Android 8 and 16GB uSD for Lubuntu Desktop and the most spectacular heat-sink I’ve ever seen, not to mention (oh, go on then, if you insist) ,  a tiny Apple-reminiscent mains power supply able…

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Web servers and SQLITE Editors Rethink

September 21, 2018December 23, 2018 Peter ScargillGeneral14 Comments on Web servers and SQLITE Editors Rethink

For some considerable time now I’ve been using Apache (web server) on my various SBCs to present a basic web page, run PHPLITEADMIN (local  SLQLite Database Manager and do other menial jobs. A LONG time ago I got rid of MySQL (which I had used on and off along with…

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Easy Backup 2

September 18, 2018December 23, 2018 Peter ScargillGeneral28 Comments on Easy Backup 2

Having satisfied myself that RPI-CLONE does a good job of creating backups of Raspberry Pi (no guarantees you won’t lose data but it hasn’t happened to me yet) I started the search for a solution for other boards. I find the Orange Pi +2E to be a particularly nice piece…

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Web Editor for SQLITE

September 18, 2018September 24, 2018 Peter Scargillsqlite web editor4 Comments on Web Editor for SQLITE

I received a potentially nice tip from Mr Shark today – a web editor for SQLITE (as against PHPLITEADMIN which is not Web based and uses PHP). Beware I found some kind of timeout, the author agreed this was likely some kind of timeout, then closed the issue on Github…

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Easy Backups and Webmin

September 16, 2018September 17, 2018 Peter ScargillLinux backup22 Comments on Easy Backups and Webmin

This article started off as two separate subjects – and has now gone SO much further – you really need to read this one… So I’m messing here with a NanoPi NEO PLUS2  (though this applies to other board too) – and I’ve had all sorts of issues getting SSD1306…

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Xiaomi Roidmi 3S Bluetooth Music Car Charger

September 14, 2018December 23, 2018 Peter ScargillGeneral, Roidmi, Xiaomi2 Comments on Xiaomi Roidmi 3S Bluetooth Music Car Charger

This Xiaomi Roidmi 3S cigarette-lighter-sized Bluetooth transmitter and car charger has two USB outputs totalling 2.4 amps output AND is able to talk via Bluetooth to your mobile phone so that those without Bluetooth on the car radio can tune into a special low power FM transmission and play their…

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Node Red Initialisation

September 13, 2018September 13, 2018 Peter Scargilljavascript, JSON, node-red, objects16 Comments on Node Red Initialisation

This is a post from back in March 2017 – but as I’d forgotten all about it, I thought you might like to share my renewed enthusiasm if you are a Node-Red user.  NR introduces non-volatile flow and global variables in version 0.19 but if that doesn’t work for you,…

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Xiaomi Mi Band 3 Smart Bracelet

September 12, 2018October 18, 2018 Peter ScargillHealth Band, Xiaomi Mi10 Comments on Xiaomi Mi Band 3 Smart Bracelet

Last month, the mailbag brought a number of goodies including a new smart wrist band for Maureen, the Xiaomi MI Band  3, supplied by GearBest. Several weeks later, this little fitness band is in full time use, as Maureen absolutely loves it. The battery lasts a week or more between…

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SD CARD Backup

September 11, 2018December 23, 2018 Peter ScargillGeneral37 Comments on SD CARD Backup

Update September 2018 I read about the most convoluted ways to back up SBC systems…. some back up only data, some use arcane commands to do the job – few if any are a single click job for a complete backup that can even handle larger or smaller SDs. That…

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Orange Pi Plus 2E revisited

September 9, 2018September 9, 2018 Peter ScargillOrange Pi Plus 2E Revisited46 Comments on Orange Pi Plus 2E revisited

Update September 2018: Despite my earlier enthusiasm below, it seems things have changed. The Stretch version of Armbian for this board which I grabbed today has a broken armbian-config and the excellent rpi-clone program produces a read-only version of the operating system. The “bionic” version of Armbian for the board…

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Koogeek Smart Light Strip LS1

September 6, 2018December 23, 2018 Peter ScargillGeneral8 Comments on Koogeek Smart Light Strip LS1

While we were down at the coast paying a fleeting visit to Gibraltar, a package arrived for me from  www.koogeek.com – their LS1 Smart Light Strip – which is available from TomTop – https://www.tomtop.com/p-ls1-1.html Here it is, it arrived well-packed – it is worth noting that apps are available for…

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