Dani's Middleware

I haven't had much time for my little friend lately, but I new he (she?) was there because I saw her LEDs blinking on the wardrobe. When I got a new router I unglugged him and after a few days I wanted to power her up again, but the only thing he showed was the red power LED. Hugh? What's wrong? After a few attempts the behaviour did not change. I googled but did not find anything useful. So I decided to start all over again. Here we go and start with building the SD card from scratch: Latest Wheezy (2014-06-22): http://downloads.raspberrypi.org/raspbian/images/raspbian-2014-06-22/2014-06-20-wheezy-raspbian.zip Latest (1.66) USB Tool by Alex: http://www.alexpage.de/download/usbit/usbit.zip I do not know why, but my Windows did not show FAT32 format option and my SD card was still holding the Linux partition. I used compmgmt.msc to remove the data, then diskpart to delete the partition and then again compmgmt.msc to format FAT32. # compmgmt.msc #  diskpart ...

I spent hours (really) googling on how to switch off the damn LEDs at my camera. I tried guvcview and mjpg-streamer and just before I started to get familiar with Python I found a really helpful entry in a forum which advised to use a control at the camera itself (aka the hardware). And guess what ... the little wheel which I thought was for the volume control was for ... THE LEDs!!! Argh!!!!! ... picture following ...

Dünnes DNS http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamisches_DNS Now I got my own Alias at https://spdns.de /. Works nicely.

I decided that I need my own webserver - not only the embedded on in motion. sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install apache2 Adding PHP: sudo apt-get install php5  

Yesterday I picked up my camera ( http://www.ebay.de/itm/390641740206 ) from the post office. I powered off my Raspberry, plugged in the little webcam guy and powered up again. Then I checked my camera: pi@raspberrypi:~$ dmesg | grep -i vid [    0.028498] mailbox: Broadcom VideoCore Mailbox driver [    1.329416] vc-cma: Videocore CMA driver [    6.182242] Linux video capture interface: v2.00 [    6.628217] uvcvideo: Found UVC 1.00 device USB2.0 Camera (1e4e:0110) [    7.120691] usbcore: registered new interface driver uvcvideo [    7.128191] USB Video Class driver (1.1.1)   pi@raspberrypi:~$ dmesg | grep input [    6.890757] input: USB2.0 Camera as /devices/platform/bcm2708_usb/usb1/1-1/1-1.2/1-1.2:1.0/input/input0   Everything seems fine. Installed fswebcam: sudo apt-get install fswebcam First testpicture: fswebcam -v -r "640×480" /home/$USER/t.jpg Installing...

Interesting link: http://www.howtogeek.com/162060/how-to-install-nzbget-for-lightweight-usenet-downloading-on-your-raspberry-pi /

7 € later (+ 2 € for parking) I plug my brand new HDMI cable into my Raspi and power up. Some seconds later I have the menu to increase my disk space. Done. Reboot. Ready. Uh ... and now? I started the Desktop just to check and it felt a bit like in former times with my C64 when I sat in front of the TV with my C64-Computer-Inside-Keyboard. :-) Ok, enabled sshd. Assigned fix IP in the router. Powered off. Unplugged. Put Raspi next to the router onto the wardrobe. Plugged the networkcable in again. Powered up. Connected with kitty . Now ... what exactly? Mhm, let me think. First bring back my HDMI cable? ;-)