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Install Apache, PHP 7.0 and MySQL/MariaDB on a Raspberry Pi (LAMP) with phpMyAdmin

November 2, 2017

LAMP is an acronym that stands for Linux Apache, MySQL/MariaDB and PHP. i have LAMP installation post for PiHome but i see lots and lots of people are looking for setting up php 7 with phpMyAdmin and MariaDB on raspberry pi and there isn’t any comprehensive set of instruction that covers this all for PHP 7, MariaDB on raspberry pi. If you are looking for Raspberry pi SD card image for LAMP (Apache, PHP 7.0 and MySQL/MariaDB on a Raspberry…

Download LAMP (Apache, PHP 7.0 and MySQL/MariaDB and phpMyAdmin) Server IMG File

March 25, 2018

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Download LAMP (Apache, PHP 7.0 and MySQL/MariaDB and phpMyAdmin) Server IMG File that I have prepared for Raspberry pi and it will fit on 4GB SD card, this image comes with the LAMP stack and including Apache, PHP 7.0 and MySQL/MariaDB and phpMyAdmin pre installed and configured, you can download this image and burn it on SD card (minimum 4GB sd card required).This LAMP stack comes with Raspbian 10 (buster). if you need help with how to copy img file…

Auto Reconnect WiFi on Raspberry Pi

October 19, 2017

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Lets Build

My Raspberry Pi 3 Wi-Fi isn’t very reliable even after disabling power management my RPI still manages to lose connection to my Wi-Fi router and i don’t have any keyboard or screen connected to it and its not advisable to do hard reset i.e unplug the power as it may corrupt your SD card. I’m going to cover writing a short script that Auto Reconnect WiFi on Raspberry Pi to a Wi-Fi network. The script will run as cron job…

How to setup OpenVPN on Raspberry Pi

October 19, 2017

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General Help, Lets Build

Raspberry Pi OpenVPN is a great way to access a home network from a remote location. In addition it can be used to secure network communications when connecting to public Wi-Fi. Since the RPi is very low-powered single board computer it is ideal for setup your own Raspberry VPN server with OpenVPN. OpenVPN comes with Easy_RSA, a simple package for using the RSA encryption. Let’s find out how you can how to setup OpenVPN on Raspberry Pi device. Why VPN?…

WiringPi Installation

October 13, 2017

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General Help, Lets Build

The WiringPi is required to interact with Raspberry Pi’s GPIO pins, it plays very important part to control zoned heating system, In this post i will show you how to install WiringPi on your Raspberry Pi. With WiringPi we can control multi zone heating system and your boiler relay that is connected directly on your Raspberry pi GPIO pin. if you want to build wireless zoned heating system then follow Wireless Arduino Multi Zone Controller Relay with nRF24L01. Install WiringPi…

Raspberry Pi WiFi setup

October 11, 2017

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General Help, Lets Build

I prefer to use WiFi on Raspberry Pi as it makes RPi portable and limits the numbers of cable attached to this small mighty computer lets do Raspberry Pi WiFi setup to have less cables attached to this might computer. Setup WiFi on Raspberry Pi Lets setup wifi on raspberry pi so we can go wireless, First you need to scan for wifi networks, use the command sudo iwlist scanning wlan0 scan to list all available wifi networks in your…

Enable Reboot/Shutdown RPI from Web

October 11, 2017

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Lets Build

You can not simply run command from php file to Reboot/Shutdown Raspberry Pi as you would from shell and it wouldn’t be very convenient to login to shell and issue Reboot/Shutdown command each time you need to bring reboot or shutdown your Raspberry Pi. You need to write script that would reboot Raspberry Pi. Some OS configuration changes to allow the reboot command from web application. Php page to execute script to shutdown or reboot Raspberry Pi. Python Script for…

Raspberry Pi System Optimisation

October 11, 2017

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Lets Build

We need to modify few things before we can continue to next step: disable power management so we can connect pi over WiFi reliably, make our SD card lost longer by moving logs to USB stick, disable GUI as we don’t need GUI running and utilize CPU time, expand file system to utilize all SD card space. Disable Power Management for Raspberry PI I am using cheap generic USB WI-Fi dongle, the latest image has built-in support for most WiFi…

Download Opensource PiHome Smart Heating Control

March 25, 2018

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Download Opensource PiHome Smart Heating Control: This Project is based on Raspberry Pi, whole systems is presented using Apache web server, all information is stored in MySQL/MariaDB database. Python script is used to log temperature sensor data from One wire DS1820 temperature sensor, most of the code is written in PHP. PiHome – Smart Heating Control is opensource and available to download free of cost and it is compatible with MySensors WiFi Gateway, Ethernet Gateway and Serial Gateway with nRF24L01+…