Eleven and a half years ago, I built my first RaspberryPi weather station using sensors from Tinkerforge. Today, I shut it down for good. Not because it failed — but because its job is done. It’s been replaced by a Netatmo setup, and unfortunately, I don’t need it anymore. But admitting that a project’s lifespan is over always takes some effort — well, to me at least.
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How to set up Navidrome for MP3 Streaming on a RaspberryPi
Recently I noticed that I hardly ever listen my MP3 music collection – mainly because I don’t like my music players (both on mobile and on the desktop). So, let’s look for a nicer player!
I had only two constraints: 1) it should be able to use the files from OneDrive/NAS and 2) it should be able to cache them (in case of no connectivity). And as I went through the candidates, I stumbled across Navidrome:
Navidrome allows you to enjoy your music collection from anywhere, by making it available through a modern Web UI and through a wide range of third-party compatible mobile apps, for both iOS and Android devices.
Navidrome also supports Playlists and Internet-Radio! Nice. So why not let it run on a RaspberryPi at home and make it available through my VPN? But would I have enough RAM left? I just tried!
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RaspberryPi System upgrade vs. Fresh install
Recently I noticed that one of my RaspberryPIs was running a rather old version of Raspian. I thought it might be a good idea to upgrade and followed the instructions from Upgrade Raspberry Pi OS to the Latest Version (2024) – RaspberryTips.
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How to enable automatic updates on Linux / RaspberryPi
I just noticed that I haven’t logged on to one of my RaspberryPIs for quite a while and also didn’t update it. Instead of hacking some root crontab, a quick search brought this thread in the Raspi forums up: crontab update – Raspberry Pi Forums and unattended upgrades – How do I enable automatic updates? – Ask Ubuntu
To keep the Raspberry Pi updated, I just use the following:
sudo apt install unattended-upgrades apt-listchanges sudo dpkg-reconfigure -plow unattended-upgrades
Documentation can be found here: Package management | Ubuntu
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How to fix: Jellyfin Library Scan Hangs
Just recently I wrote about How to install Jellyfin on a RaspberryPi. It all started promising until – after adding a couple of movies – the Library Scan suddenly hung. Unfortunately I didn’t dig too deep into all kinds of logs (which I certainly forgot but which might have given a hint).
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How to replace Synology Video Station with Jellyfin
Unfortunately Synology has discontinued their support for Videostation starting from DSM version 7.2.2 as can be read in the Release Notes for DSM | Synology Inc.:
#6 Video Station is not available on DSM 7.2.2. Refer to this article for workarounds to stream videos to end devices.
Time to evaluate the alternatives …
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How to make space/storage efficient backups of Raspberry Pi SD-cards
RaspberryPi mini computers are great for all kinds of home automation, media centers, home servers. Yet it should be known that the draw back for permanent operation can be the SD-card. Especially when applications on the RasperrbyPi cause excessive read/writes or if it is used outsides where temperatures can reach the SD-Card operating limits, IO errors should be expected that can just f* up the operating system.
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How to install TvHeadend on a Raspberry Pi
Tvheadend is a TV streaming server and recorder for Linux. It also offers a great possibility to combine a SAT-recorder with KODI mediacenter on a Raspberry Pi (I would recommend a raspberry Pi 3 due to RAM requirements).
Installing Tvheadend by compiling from source was not so easy, so it is definately easier to install via precompiled packages. In order to do so, the following steps are required:
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How to enable Camera Streaming on a Raspberry Pi
This is a very brief tutorial how to get a stream of the Raspberry Pi camera into a browser. The original article can be found here.
I was searching a lot how to stream directly from the camera to the network, yet I did not find a solution. So what we are doing here is using the timelaps feature from raspistill combined with MJPG-Streamer. In the end you will be able to see the stream in a webbrowser or in VLC Media Player.
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How to enable WiFi auto reconnect on a Raspberry Pi
In recent times my WiFi seems to have become a bit unstable. As if this wouldn’t be annoying enough, this also means that all my Rasperry Pis loose their WiFi connections as well and thus become unreachable.
Yet the sollution is pretty simple:
Well, there is a very simple solution:
cd /etc/ifplugd/action.d/sudo mvifupdownifupdown.originalsudo cp /etc/wpa_supplicant/ifupdown.sh ./ifupdownsudo reboot
That’s it. Thanks Stackexchange for the great hit.
