Linux

Configure Zabbix Agent

October 7, 2025 by Daniel F Dickinson3 minutes

Public Pi backyard camera

A short talk / presentation about using the Raspberry Pi as a public backyard camera (e.g. live streamed or time lagged snapshots of a bird feeder)

September 21, 2021 by Daniel F Dickinson3 minutes

Serve captures from Pi backyard camera

How to upload and serve (on the web) image and video captures from a Raspberry Pi acting as a backyard public motion camera.

September 22, 2021 by Daniel F Dickinson23 minutes

Local web server for backyard camera

Copying Raspberry Pi captured backyard camera videos and pictures to a local web server using rclone for public viewing.

September 22, 2021 by Daniel F Dickinson1 minute

Remote web server for backyard camera

Copying Raspberry Pi captured backyard camera videos and pictures to a remote web server using rclone for public viewing.

September 22, 2021 by Daniel F Dickinson2 minutes

Backyard Pi OneDrive

Copying Raspberry Pi captured backyard camera videos and pictures to a Microsoft OneDrive using rclone for public sharing.

September 23, 2021 by Daniel F Dickinson2 minutes

Backyard Pi Google Drive

Copying Raspberry Pi captured backyard camera videos and pictures to a Google Drive using rclone for public sharing.

September 23, 2021 by Daniel F Dickinson2 minutes

Streaming from Pi backyard camera

Live streaming video from a Raspberry Pi as a backyard public camera using software named 'motion'

September 22, 2021 by Daniel F Dickinson24 minutes

Tip for Windows 11 on Libvirt/KVM

Getting good performance with Windows 11 Pro running under Libvirt/KVM on Linux requires some special configs, especially if one wants to enable WSL2 (which requires 'Nested virtualization'). This is a brief cheatsheet on the required configuration.

June 19, 2025 by Daniel F Dickinson2 minutes

Bare metal cloud-init

A guide to using a Debian cloud image and cloud-init on a bare-metal host for fast deployment. The base configuration is very basic and aims to act like an OVH Debian 12 (Bookworm) dedicated server base configuration.

February 18, 2023 by Daniel F Dickinson12 minutes