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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: 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 […]

By Soren, ago
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Raspberry Pi 2 has arrived!

There was some great news out of the Raspberry Pi Foundation today. They introduced the Raspberry Pi 2, a new version of the Raspberry Pi that features a brand new processor, the 900MHz quad-core ARM Cortex-A7 CPU and double the memory to 1GB. The new ARM7 processor opens the Raspberry world to a variety of new operation systems such as Windows and Snappy Ubuntu Core. (more…)

By Soren, ago
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The New Raspberry Pi B+ Model

There is a new revision of the Raspberry Pi model B available – the Raspberry Pi Model B+. With the new Model B+ we finally get more IO’s, additional USB ports, lower power usage and better audio. The Raspberry Pi Foundation is fast to point out that this is not a version […]

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