To give this set of nodes their full title, the offering is known as node-red-contrib-alexa-remote2 and has VERY recently been updated. For those of us who’ve been struggling controlling our home devices with various custom packages recently, the best option over the past few weeks seems to be node-red-contrib-amazon-echo –…
Category: Raspberry Pi 4
RPI4 Network Lesson
This blog entry was last updated mid-September 2019 and covers a wide range of issues I’ve had and resolved since the introduction of the Raspberry Pi 4 single-board computer (SBC) and the “Buster” update to the (Linux Debian-based) Raspbian operating system, in particular in setting up the networking and hostname…
Raspberry Pi 4 Arrival
My 2GB Pi4 arrived from the UK. My good friend sent me a micro-HDMI to HDMI adaptor along with the Pi and a 3d-printed case he made – except he didn’t…. the adaptor is a micro-USB to HDMI adaptor – NOT what the RPI4 uses. Because I’m impatient I’d already…
Raspberry Pi 4 + Buster
The new Raspberry Pi 4 is out and about. The new model has something folk have been screaming for i.e. 2GB and 4GB RAM options, not only that but BUSTER, the new version of Raspbian which is not only supported but recommended – and it is backward compatible. In my…
Mosquitto on Raspberry Pi 4
I currently have The Eclipse Mosquitto MQTT broker running on the Raspberry Pi 2, 3 and 4, including Stretch and Buster Raspbian, not to mention countless other variations of Debian and Ubuntu on various boards used at one time or another (Orange Pi, various FriendlyArm boards and far more). Below…