Mounting and formatting USB drives on Linux isn’t the easiest thing to do. This is especially true if you are on a console-only operating system, like Raspberry Pi OS Lite. Today, I’ll show you how to format and mount a USB drive on your Raspberry Pi, whether in terminal or graphic mode. First, you must…
If you are a serious developer, you might be looking for tools to make your life easier and your applications more reliable. Jenkins is one solution you can use to build and test your software projects, and the good news is that it can be installed on Raspberry Pi. Jenkins is an automation server that…
Blocking ads and pop-ups on all of your devices can sometimes take a lot of time and effort. Today, I’ll show you how to install an ad blocker for your entire network in 15 minutes. We’ll use Pi-Hole, which is a famous ad-blocker for Raspberry Pi. Pi-Hole is a free and open-source ad-blocker that can…
If you like to listen to music at home, you can use your Raspberry Pi as your personal stereo. In this post, I’ll show you the different ways you can play Spotify on your Raspberry Pi. There are three ways that you can use Spotify on a Raspberry Pi: Volumio, Kodi or MusicBox. All of…
Today, you’ll install a new service on your Raspberry Pi: a DNS server.It’ll speed up your web browsing, secure your requests and teach you a few things about how DNS is working.I’ll show you how to do this easily on a Raspberry Pi. DNSMasq is a service that can be installed on Raspberry Pi to…
Update: CentOS project is discontinued, it’s now recommended to switch to Fedora, Rocky Linux or Alma Linux instead. Click on the links to read my tutorials about these distributions. I keep this tutorial online for old versions, but since they don’t get updates anymore, it’s not recommended to use CentOS on RaspberryPi anymore. The new…
The Raspberry Pi camera is generally used for many projects, including doorbell, security or just recording timelapse. Another idea you seem to have, is to use your Raspberry Pi camera as a webcam. Is it possible? Yes! And I will explain everything in this article. The Raspberry Pi camera module can be used as a…
You only get one normal user on default with Raspberry Pi OS (it was “pi”, but now it’s the user created during the first boot), but it isn’t an administrator account and you can’t configure things with it (i.e. use commands “reboot” or “shutdown”). Why? How does it work? How do you disable it? Keep…
Have you always dreamed of having a family NAS with your backups and movies? But you do not necessarily have the budget for that?Raspberry Pi allows you to do that at a lower cost, and I will give you all the details in this post. How to turn your Raspberry Pi into a file server?To…
Scheduling commands or scripts on a Raspberry Pi, and on Linux generally, is not easy for a beginner. There are many tips you should know in order to make it work every time, and in this article, you will see the recommendations in detail. To schedule a task on Raspberry Pi, there is a tool…