Mosquitto MQTT
I've recently started experimenting with MQTT, in particular the Mosquito broker. After quite a bit of trial & error and plenty of man page reading I've managed to get things working nicely. Features
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Bridging Mosquitto MQTT to io.adafruit.com MQTT
Adafruit have recently enabled MQTT as a transport for feeds on io.adafruit.com. If you already have a MQTT broker configured and working you probably don't want to reconfigure your clients to
Upgrading Ghost
If you have a self hosted installation of Ghost upgrading it can be a little bit daunting and possibly dangerous. The instructions here are pretty good. Although sometimes all you want is one
Calibre ebooks server Apache WSGI Application
Once you've got a lot of ebooks in Calibre it is handy to have them available straight from your tablet. An easy way to do this is using the content server that is
Change the RaspberryPi default username
A couple of quick commands to change the default username (pi) that is configured when you install Raspbian for the first time: Login to a text console, ie: Ctrl+F1. Then execute the
Ghost behind Apache SSL Virtual Host
After getting Ghost set up just the way I wanted it was time to turn on SSL and put it behind my Apache instance. Reasonable simple process except for one catch, mod_headers
Apache Mythweb Reverse Proxy Configuration
After a lot of stuffing around and trial and error I've finally managed to get MythWeb configured using Apache as a reverse proxy. Additionally averything is transmitted using HTTPS rather than HTTP. The
Copying your public key to a remote server
Copying your public key (usually ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub) to your remote server makes it possible to login over ssh without needing to remember your password. All the authentication is taken care of