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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, 7 years ago November 12, 2016

Raspberry Pi with external WiFi Adapter

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How To: Connect your Raspberry Pi to WiFi

This is an updated guide showing you how to connect your Raspberry Pi to your home WiFi network in cases where you do not have a graphical user interface for your Raspberry Pi. For this guide you need a Raspberry Pi – and unless you’re using the Raspberry Pi 3 Read more…

By Soren, 7 years ago November 5, 2016

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How-To: Share a folder with a Windows computer from a Raspberry Pi

Sharing files over the network is often very useful. Whether you need to transfer media files to the Raspberry Pi or you want to use the raspberry as a simple Network-Attached Storage (NAS) device, this guide will show you how to enable file sharing of a folder on the Raspberry Pi running the Raspbian OS. (more…)

By Soren, 10 years ago April 15, 2014

Raspberry Pi with Edimax Wifi Adapter

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How-To: Turn a Raspberry Pi into a WiFi router

Do you want a separate WiFi network for your guests? or would you like to have network running an alternative DNS configuration in your house? You no longer have to buy a new WiFi router to do this - you can turn your Raspberry Pi into a WiFi router. This post will guide you through the process of setting up your Raspberry Pi as a WiFi network. (more…)

By Soren, 10 years ago December 4, 2013

Raspberry Pi with Edimax Wifi Adapter

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How-To: Add WiFi to the Raspberry Pi

As you may know the Raspberry Pi can only access your home network using a network cable. But lets face it, your Raspberry Pi project is not always going to be deployed close to a network outlet - so what do we do? (more…)

By Soren, 11 years ago July 25, 2013

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Working with a Raspberry Pi from another computer

Sometimes it is not practical to work with your Raspberry Pi using your TV and a USB keyboard. This can be because you have turned your Raspberry Pi into a weather station and installed it in your tree-house, or simply because you don’t want to sit in front of the Read more…

By Soren, 11 years ago July 21, 2013