Raspberry Pi

Display MAC address of wireless device on Raspberry Pi.

Display wireless signal level and link quality on Raspberry Pi.

Configure basic DHCP server using the Internet Software Consortium’s DHCP server.

Use the Avahi mDNS/DNS-SD daemon to identify services on Raspberry Pi devices.

Manage LXD containers as regular user.

Determine command used to start docker container using runlike utility.

Install VS Code server on Raspberry Pi.

Configure Advanced Power Management features on removable hard drives.

Boot Raspberry Pi 4 from USB SSD using Raspberry Pi OS. Use Raspberry Pi Imager to install Raspberry Pi OS on SD card and USB SSD device. Boot from SD card to update and configure boot loader. Update package index. $ sudo apt update Upgrade operating system. $ sudo apt full-upgrade Update Raspberry firmware and kernel. $ sudo rpi-update *** Raspberry Pi firmware updater by Hexxeh, enhanced by AndrewS and Dom *** Performing self-update *** Relaunching after update *** Raspberry Pi firmware updater by Hexxeh, enhanced by AndrewS and Dom *** We're running for the first time *** Backing up files (this will take a few minutes) *** Backing up firmware *** Backing up modules 5.15.61-v8+ WANT_32BIT:0 WANT_64BIT:1 WANT_PI4:1 ############################################################# WARNING: This update bumps to rpi-5.15.y linux tree See: https://forums.raspberrypi.com/viewtopic.php?t=322879 'rpi-update' should only be used if there is a specific reason to do so - for example, a request by a Raspberry Pi engineer or if you want to help the testing effort and are comfortable with restoring if there are regressions. DO NOT use 'rpi-update' as part of a regular update process. ############################################################## Would you like to proceed? (y/N) *** Downloading specific firmware revision (this will take a few minutes) % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 0 100 113M 100 113M 0 0 7013k 0 0:00:16 0:00:16 --:--:-- 6711k *** Updating firmware *** Updating kernel modules *** depmod 5.15.82-v8+ *** Updating VideoCore libraries *** Using SoftFP libraries *** Updating SDK *** Running ldconfig *** Storing current firmware revision *** Deleting downloaded files *** Syncing changes to disk *** If no errors appeared, your firmware was successfully updated to f7f9019b67eba652e31ffe2321dffbb1fef71160 *** A reboot is needed to activate the new firmware Reboot operating system.

Overclock Raspberry Pi 4 using Raspberry Pi OS.

Configure Unbound DNS validating resolver.

Display the name of the wireless network you are connected to.

Scan wireless networks.

Disable IPv6 on Raspberry Pi 4.

Configure multiple IPv4 addresses on Raspberry Pi device.

Disable onboard WiFi and Bluetooth on Raspberry Pi 4 device.

Configure static IP address on Raspberry Pi 4 device.

Configure wireless network on Raspberry Pi 4.

Brief note about Samsung SSD T7 on Raspberry Pi 4 which provided a nice boost to my personal GitLab instance at home. The performance is strongly limited due to Raspberry Pi device constraints, but it is still much better than regular HDD.

Identify Raspberry Pi device using built-in leds.

Display Raspberry Pi serial number using standard command-line utilities.

Install GitLab on Raspberry Pi.

Install LXD, a next generation system container and virtual machine manager on Raspberry Pi using DietPi, a highly optimized minimal Debian OS.

Enable memory cgroup on a Raspberry Pi with DietPi, an extremely lightweight Debian operating system.

DietPi, an extremely lightweight Debian OS, is using cgroup v2 on Raspberry Pi, but this causes warning when using snap packages…

Install beloved ArchiveBox on RaspberryPi3.

Switch from Dropbear to OpenSSH on DietPi.

Open LUKS2 encrypted volume on a low memory device.

Write an operating system to microSD card using Raspberry Pi Imaging Utility.

Gitea currently does not provide packages for ARMv7, which was commonly used for Raspberry Pi 3. This is not a problem as software compiled for specific ARM instruction set should work on more recent architectures thanks to backward compatibility with earlier ARM processors.

Disable onboard WiFi and Bluetooth on Raspberry Pi 3 device.

Download Raspbian image and write it to the SD card using as few commands as possible.

Install Pi-hole, a network-wide ad blocking on your own Linux hardware. I have used it on Debian Stretch, but then moved to a small Raspberry Pi, which now acts as DNS and DHCP server.

Today I will shortly describe how to set up Raspberry Pi as a tiny NAS server. I am using one at home daily, and it is a handy appliance.