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How to access your Raspberry Pi Home Assistant Smart Home Hub from outside your home

In the How to: Create a Z-Wave Smart Home hub using a Raspberry Pi post we walked through how to setup the Raspberry Pi as a Smart Home hub that will enable you to control your lights and other Z-Wave enabled devices using a phone or a browser on your local network. One of the key features of a smart home is to be able to access your home from outside your home. This post will walk you through setting up your Home Assistant smart home hub for remote access. (more…)

By Soren, ago
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How-To: Change libretro emulator cores in RetroPie (Emulationstation)

RetroPie makes its incredibly simple to create a Game Console Emulator using the Raspberry Pi (how-to here). RetroPie will play everything from Gameboy to Super Nintendo to Sega Genesis games. Unfortunately with simplicity often comes lack of choice. This means that RetroPie comes with some predefined emulator cores that it will always use. Most of the times these emulator cores will work perfectly well - but there are situations where you would like to change  the emulator core of a certain system. An example is the NES emulator in RetroPie - I have found that using the QuickNES core gives better results than the fceu-next core which ships with RetroPie. Fortunately RetroPie uses libretro and emulatorstation which makes it very flexible, and installing a new emulator core for any of the emulated systems is a breeze. This guide will show you how to replace fceu-next with QuickNES as the NES emulator core. (more…)

By Soren, ago