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Free and Secure Messaging on Raspberry Pi with Telegram Bots
Sunday, July 25, 2021
Telegram is a free and cross-platform instant messaging software. Telegram also offers a way to set up your own messaging bots. With Telegram bots, it’s easy to set up a tight interface with which you can talk to your home automation Raspberry Pi on the go without having to expose your whole Raspberry Pi as server. P.S. Telegram bots can do a lot more , though we only focus on a small use case here.…
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Set Up A Raspberry Pi As An Auto-refreshing Web Dashboard
Saturday, April 3, 2021
Set up a Raspberry Pi to run Chromium in kiosk mode credit: This section is mostly based on https://die-antwort.eu/techblog/2017-12-setup-raspberry-pi-for-kiosk-mode/ with some tweak to work with the auto-refresh section later. Set up First, start with a fresh install of Raspbian Lite - we don’t want all the bloat because we are only using the Raspberry Pi to display a dashboard Then, we perform the usual Raspberry Pi setups, including things like updating password or enabling SSH.…