Run a DynDNS client under Raspbian

For a home automation project I have to setup a local DynDNS client on my Banana Pi running with Raspian. Here are the steps I’ve taken to run a DynDNS client under Raspbian (will work on other Debian based Linux distributions too): Install ddclient package: $>sudo apt-get install ddclient This command installs the package and starts the DynDNS […]

Install Arch-Linux on a Raspberry Pi

Arch Linux is a very clean and lightweight Linux distribution. With the following steps you can install it on a SD-Card to run it on a Raspberry Pi: Get the device name (dev-path) of the SD-Card to run the operating system (see Get a list of partitions or List, partitioning and format drives) $> sudo fdisk -l […]

Adafriut webIDE BETA release

Yeah the next prank from Adafruit! They build up their own web-based development IDE. At the moment it’s only in beta state but I think the chance is very high that it will become very awesome. Right now it runs on Raspberry Pi and BeagleBone and supports Ruby, Python and JavaScript. The genius part is, that the code […]

Set static IP

Sometimes its necessary that your machine gets a static IP-address. For example if you want to run a server or a other service on that machine. On Debian based machines you can do this by: Edit /etc/network/interfaces (f.e.: with nano) auto lo iface lo inet loopback auto eth0 iface eth0 inet static address 192.168.88.6 netmask 255.255.255.0 […]

Install Raspbian on a SD-Card

To install Rasbian on a SD-Card you have to follow these Steps Format SD-Card Fat32 (f.e. with GParted http://gparted.org/) Download Raspbian (or any other operation system) from http://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/ Extract the downloaded zip-file Find out what is the devicepath of your SD-Card (you can use the df-command or get a list of partitions via linux-list-of-partitions) Execute the […]