Tag: Raspberry

Monitoring a Linux computer with Centreon, example with a Raspberry Pi + Temperature of your CPU

I'm going to put this post because of all the requests I've been receiving on how to monitor a Linux server. As obviously depends on the distribution, today we have an example with a Debian and more specifically we will see it on a Raspberry Pi that carries Raspbian. We'll monitor basic metrics like CPU, RAM, Swap Memory, Disks, Network Traffic, Uptime… And in the end we will see something very interesting!

Measuring our electricity consumption with a Raspberry Pi

Continuing with documents of curious things we can do with a Raspberry Pi, Something very simple to achieve is for example to measure the electricity consumption of whatever we want, In this document we will see how to connect non-invasive current sensors to a Raspberry Pi and measure the cost of our home, since we will connect it to the electrical panel of our house! We will export the metrics to a MySQL database and then with Grafana we will create a dashboard where we can see in a very intuitive way what we spend on and how much!

Getting data from our Xiaomi Smart Scale with Raspberry Pi

If you have the Xiaomi Smart Scale scale, follow the steps in this document and you will be able to read your weight from a Raspberry Pi, by connecting via bluetooth we will store the records in a MySQL database, and so if we want we can exploit them super easily with Grafana! I will leave you with a series of documents that I think are very interesting to obtain information from different devices that control our life and visualize it in a super cool way!

Raspberry Pi – Spanish Speech Recognition

Well, Well, After a long summer of enjoyment and leisure we are back to the fray!!! In this document we will see how to make a Raspberry Pi listen to us, waiting for us to talk to him and execute the commands we instruct. It's really simple to do, I've been testing more complex alternatives for some time both to install and configure, And this one for me is the best. What you are going to see in this document you will be able to implement in less than 30 minutes! And tell him… “Antonia, put me Telecinco”!

Raspberry Pi – Notifying new emails and calendar appointments

I've been wanting to pass you a couple of scripts that I usually use to make a Raspberry Pi that I have connected to a speaker talk to me for a long time; in this document we will only see how to configure the Pi to talk to us through the speaker and tell us if we have received an email, and if so, it will indicate the sender and the subject of the email; as well as if we have any appointments on the calendar in the next few years. 5 minutes, will remind us of it over the loudspeaker!

Raspberry Pi – Whole-house sound system

To welcome the 2016 Let's put a post that I like… In this document we will see how to set up an audio system for our homes! With some Raspberrys scattered around the house we can have a piped music or a multiroom system of the cheapest! We will be able to listen to any song from our multimedia server or music from our mobile, as well as Spotify or whatever we are interested in! We can send the audio indistinctly, to one Raspberry or multiple, as we are interested!  

Raspberry Pi – Uses of Bluetooth

Very good, In this article I wanted to document some utility that I got from one of the Raspberry that is around the house, I have a mini USB bluetooth device that I connected to the Pi, I'll give you a couple of scripts in case you may be interested: One will first detect us if we are ready to execute an action; and the second will connect a wireless speaker!