Raspian with Ralink 7601 Wifi Adapter
April 27, 2016
Recently picked up a Ralink 7601 Wifi Adapter (a no-name clone wifi stub from Ebay), for the princely sum of about $2 delivered. It’s identifable easily because in lsusb it shows up as;
Blog now uses HTTPS!
April 14, 2016
With the release of LetsEncrypt to the public, I’ve reconfigured my blog server to use HTTPS. Setup was pretty straightforward, I just followed the nginx setup guide. Notably though, my highly restrictive nginx setup didn’t work with the rules they described. Instead, I needed this fragment to get the Let’s Encrypt authentication challenge to pass;
Raspberry Pi Temperature Monitoring with CheckMK
April 11, 2016
The Raspberry Pi running Raspian has some built-in temperature sensors. The sensor is on the CPU die, and you can find it at;
ADS-B Reception on RPI3
April 1, 2016
Well, that was straightforward. I present you with;
Software-Defined Radio on RPI3 – First Steps!
April 1, 2016
Got myself a RTL-SDR Software-Defined Radio (also known as a cheap-as-hell USB DVB-T tuner), and hooked it up to a Raspberry Pi 3 running Raspbian. My objective here was to just get it working, and eventually I’ll use it for spectrum analysis and ADS-B tracking.
HWiNFO Sensors in CheckMK
April 1, 2016
I use HWiNFO64 on my Windows PCs to monitor the various temperature and fan sensors. I wanted to get this data into CheckMK for monitoring purposes. Here’s how I did it.