Self-Host

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

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

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

Raspberry Pi OS as a server

Docker network: LAN to container

When using Docker to containerize internal services like Samba, LLMNR, or mDNS a.k.a Bonjour one may find that the standard Docker model of using specific unicast ports forwards, is insufficient.

February 21, 2022 by Daniel F Dickinson3 minutes