Mike Redrobe has written a tutorial on getting a UB499-T2 DVB tuner working with the Raspberry Pi. It deals with downloading firmware, configuring the software and finally recording onto the Pi’s storage system. Read more here.
Category: Software
Create a backup server with the #RaspberryPi
James has been experimenting with using a Pi as a backup server running Areca backup. Read more here
WildFly cluster on multiple #RaspberryPi servers
Arun Gupta has continued his work with the WildFly Java application server. He’s now written three posts on the subject: Setting up and configuring WildFly on the Pi, setting it up on two Pis using managed domain mode and now…
WildFly: a lightweight Java application server on the #RaspberryPi
Arun Gupta has been investigating a way to run the lightweight Java application server Wildfly on the Pi. He’s now posted up a tutorial on installing an OS on the Pi and then installing Wildfly itself. Well worth a look if…
Use a webcam and a #RaspberryPi to take pictures and upload to Dropbox
Greg Payne at Labvolution has written a brief tutorial on using fswebcam and a script he wrote to take images from a USB webcam and upload them to Dropbox. Read more here
Mount a USB flash drive on your #RaspberryPi
Matt Hawkins has written a quick guide to mounting flash drives on a Pi by using the mount command, and also by adding entries to fstab if you want it to happen automatically. Read more here
Turn the #RaspberryPi into a wireless router
I feel like I’ve covered this a few times, but here’s a new, very minimal tutorial on turning the Pi into a wifi router. This one is written by Jacob Salmela and can be found on his blog here.
APM Planner on the #RaspberryPi
One for the Remote Control geeks out there. APM Planner is now available for the Raspberry Pi. Read more here.
Binding hotkeys on a #RaspberryPi
Say you wanted to have a function key run a particular program in X windows. Well, Rolf van Gelder has written a short tutorial on how to do it. Read how here.
BlueJ – a Java IDE on the #RaspberryPi
BlueJ is a free Java Development Environment designed for beginners and the developers have now got it running on a Pi. They’ve stripped back some of the visual features and bells and whistles so that it (in their words) “runs…