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raspi.mobi – pay for something that you can get elsewhere for free

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I don’t normally criticise another website or even an online venture… but this takes the biscuit. raspi.mobi is offering hosting and content management services for Raspberry Pi owners who want a website that can be browsed on a mobile.

Have a look at their so-called Products.

So, I can pay £5 a year for a subdomain and a hosted website that will look incredibly ugly? Really? That’s so generous… As far as I can tell, it’s not even hosted on a Raspberry Pi (which would be something!)

Don’t fall for this – it’s just someone with a basic content management system trying to take advantage of RPi owners.

Shocking.

Making, Software, Tutorials

Just installed the Adafruit WebIDE

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Well! Finally, after three attempts, I successfully installed the Adafruit WebIDE by following their instructions here:

Overview | Adafruit Learning System Raspberry Pi WebIDE | Adafruit Learning System.

One thing to note. the instructions are currently wrong. The IDE does NOT start on port 3000, it defaults to port 80. To change this (as I had to), you need to edit the following file:

/usr/share/adafruit/webide/config/config.js

and change the obvious line from 80 to the port you want. I actually changed it to 3000, just to keep continuity with the mistaken instructions.

Should be interesting to try and use it in anger in the next few days when I’m over at my parents and have some free time.

Making, My Projects, Picorder, Raspberry Jams, Software

Redwing Pi scripts released

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recantha/redwing-pi · GitHub

Following the Milton Keynes Raspberry Jam, and the fair amount of success running the PiPodCorder with a working temperature sensor and LCD read-out, I’ve decided to put the code onto GitHub in the hope that somewhere someone will find them useful!

Groups of scripts in the project include:

  • access_point – turn the Raspberry Pi into a wifi access point (I’m using this to tether a mobile phone to it so I can access the Pi from a VNC session running on the phone. But, the same principle applies for running it as a wifi router)
  • bluetooth – connect devices over bluetooth to the Pi (I’m using this primarily to connect a Rii Bluetooth Keyboard/Trackpad)
  • gpio – various scripts and modules to use the GPIO pins (Other scripts in there include: LCD control for a 16×2 display, LED on/off simple script, read from a TMP102 temperature sensor, read from an SR04 Ultrasonic distance sensor) multimedia – scripts to activate and use a webcam, including motion-detection
  • operating_system – update and upgrade your Pi with ease
  • software – various installation scripts for software packages and projects that run on the Pi
  • wifi – scripts to help you get your Pi running on a wifi network (for instance to run it ‘headless’)

To view the repository and see the code, please visit recantha/redwing-pi · GitHub.

Occidentalis

Please note, I am running the Occidentalis RPi operating system distro from Adafruit, so that’s the best route if you want the scripts to work with more certainty.