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Re: Micro Controller Forum
By: Mike Dippel to All on Sat Jul 13 2024 11:00 pm

Hi all,

Microcontrollers are something I'm definitely interested in. I use Home Assistant in my home to do some home automation.

I have a couple ESP32's around, one as a bluetooth proxy and one acting as a test voice assistant (M5Stack Atom Echo). Also running a RTLSDR monitoring aircraft in the area.

I do eventually want to get into using some ESP32's and WLED to do some interesting holiday lighting.

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I have a couple ESP32's around, one as a bluetooth proxy and one acting
as a test voice assistant (M5Stack Atom Echo). Also running a RTLSDR monitoring aircraft in the area.

I do eventually want to get into using some ESP32's and WLED to do some interesting holiday lighting.

Hello, Ernie

I have been playing around with MCs for years. From the Original Rasp Pi to the latest (minus the new v5). PINE64 as well. My Engineers are work all use the ESP32s and gave me a couple to play around with. I used an Arduino Micro to learn and play with various WLEDs - that was neat. My PINE64 was my OctoPrint server, but I got the 7" touch display and installed Android on it to make it my DJI Phantom 4 "cellphone" display. Other Pis are running my weather station, my ADS-B server, remote camera controllers, and a retro gaming "console". Lots of fun, but I haven't played around with them much after I get things programmed and running. Then I have to 're-learn' everything if something breaks. LOL

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Re: Re: Micro Controller Forum
By: SirRonmit to Ernie on Mon Jul 22 2024 07:33 am

Hi SirRonmit,

Those sound like some great projects. I have a few Pi's around too. My original Pi1, I don't think I have plugged in anymore.

I have a pi4 that I use as kind of a bastion host. Mostly it's used to run an ansible script to update the other servers in the network and OctaPrint like you.

I do eventually want to setup a weather station and ADS-B server (capture some satallite images, etc.)

I have been playing around with MCs for years. From the Original Rasp Pi to the latest (minus the new v5). PINE64 as well. My Engineers are work all use the ESP32s and gave me a couple to play around with. I used an Arduino Micro to learn and play with various WLEDs - that was neat. My PINE64 was my OctoPrint server, but I got the 7" touch display and installed Android on it to make it my DJI Phantom 4 "cellphone" display. Other Pis are running my weather station, my ADS-B server, remote camera controllers, and a retro gaming "console". Lots of fun, but I haven't played around with them much after I get things programmed and running. Then I have to 're-learn' everything if something breaks. LOL

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This forum must be dead as I had asked upon first joining and posted what all my Raspberry Pis are used for :(

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Re: Re: Micro Controller Forum
By: SirRonmit to Mike Dippel on Sat Nov 26 2022 13:35:32

I'm not sure what you are using your RPi for, but I'm using mine as a NAS/Web server. I currently can tunnel into the RPi using a BASH script I have on my laptop. This attaches a directory to my home directory that allows for simple file transfer. The script also rsync a directory that I like to have backed up onto RPi. It acts like my own 'clowd' server for my stuff. Here's the script on my laptop:

#!/bin/bash
skip=1
#set address to you're network's address
address="XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX"
port=21
while getops :sh option; do
case $option in
h) echo "usage: pitun [-s]";
exit;;
s) skip=0;;
?) echo "Error: option -$OPTARG is not supported";
exit;;
esac
done
if [ $skip -eq 1 ]
then
rsync -ave "ssh -p$port" ~/Backup/ pi@$address:/home/pi/Backup
echo
if
mkdir ~/pi
sshfs pi$address:/home/pi ~/pi -p$port
ssh -L 8080:127.0.0.1:80 -L 8888:192.168.1.3:80 pi@$address -p$port
fusermount --umount ~/pi
rmdir ~/pi


Once I use that script on my laptop, I have an open SSH connection to it if I want to run any commands on the pi itself. I also have port forwarding so I can access the pi's web server by entering 127.0.0.1:8080 into my laptop's webrouser. This eliminates opening up additional ports in my router's firewall.

On the RPi it's self, I have two identical HDD running in RAID 0 via two identical USB to SATA addapters. This provides data redundancy in case one drive fails (which I have had and this saved my data).

As far as websites/data on the Pi, it's mainly my photo gallery. I've got 36k photos I've taken over the years. The Backup directory on my laptop has anything I want to by automatically sync'd to the RPi with is typically some work stuff.

Using Termux on my phone/tablets I can run a very similar script and have the same funtionallity on my devices.

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I posted mine before, but don't think my system is sending out unless I hit reply .. I need to install these message areas on my fresh install and see if I can get them working properly.

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I posted mine before, but don't think my system is sending out unless I hit reply .. I need to install these message areas on my fresh install
and see if I can get them working properly.

Your definitely getting out...

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This should be fun! I have been wanting to expand and do some more home automation stuff using the ESP32 modules. I am controlling some led strips now using WLED and have a few temp sensors placed in my barn that run ESP Easy

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Your definitely getting out...

Thanks, John!
I think it was because I hit REPLY and changed instead of New Message to All -- lotsa weird problems after latest update and power outages here :(

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