Quick tutorial step-by-step for setting up a Raspberry Pi device to be controlled over BlueTooth. You will need the source code from https://github.com/matzpersson/pinet-toothd and if you want to see it work over bluetooth, you will need the piNet app from AppStore. Only available for iOS at this stage. This assumes that […]
Quick tutorial step-by-step for streaming live video from your Raspberry 3 using the PI Camera to a web browser. Using Motion to deliver the stream to the browser which has a near 5 second latency. Might want to use something like Gstreamer for better performance. Downside with Gstreamer is that […]
Quick steps to installing with either USB Wifi dongle or with the RPI3 internal wifi. apt-get update apt-get install wirless-tools Run iwconfig to list all connected wireless devices and find which one you want to configure. Mine was wlan0: iwconfig Add device name to /etc/network/interfaces: auto wlan0 iface wlan0 inet […]
Configure Usb GPS Fairly easy to install and get working. Making the start up processes work is the slightly tricky part. I had a Prolific GPS with Usb cable attached. I am doing this on a Raspberry Pi with Rasbian installed. First, check if you have your GPS plugged in […]
Communicate with Raspberry GPIO over UDP and TCP Sockets. Explores using UDP as push stream of changes to inputs and outputs on the Raspberry. TCP Connection enables the remote client to control output state changes from the client software. Code on GIT Hub: https://github.com/matzpersson/raspberry-gpio-sockets.git Companion Swift app on https://github.com/matzpersson/raspberry-swift-gpio-remote.git Installation […]
Quick tutorial for setting up Raspberry as Digital Signage and stream a video to it. It includes setup of a customised splash screen during boot, configuration of a light Windows Manager on Linux and auto-launch of Chrome browser to browse the vide. Kick off installation with: apt-get update apt-get install […]
Quick howto for installing and compiling the OpenAlpr project on a Raspberry Pi. Raspberry needs to have atleast 64bit Ubuntu Trusty for this to work. First, install the prerequisites. sudo apt-get install libopencv-dev libtesseract-dev git cmake build-essential libleptonica-dev sudo apt-get install liblog4cplus-dev libcurl3-dev sudo apt-get install beanstalkd Next, head to […]
