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AIS receiver on a Raspberry Pi with RTL-SDR

The automatic identification system (AIS) is an automatic tracking system that uses transponders on ships and is used by vessel traffic services (VTS). AIS information supplements marine radar, which continues to be the primary method of collision avoidance for water transport.

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Boiler integration in Domoticz with Ebusd

1. Introduction

The goal of the project is the integration of a Saunier Duval boiler with a Domoticz home automation system.

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Update RFLink Gateway on Raspbian with Domoticz

It’s possible to update a RFLink gateway from your Pi running Raspbian and Domoticz.

Before :

After :

1. Software

Install Avrdude :
pi@pi:~ $ sudo apt-get install avrdude
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Monitor a host from a Zabbix Agent (ping / ICMP)

Monitoring my Raspberry Pi network behind NAT is easy using OpenVPN and Zabbix agent/server.

In a few cases, I need to monitor hosts without any possibilities to install OpenVPN and Zabbix agent on it (switchs, routers, wemos, arduinos…).

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Monitor a Raspberry Pi using Zabbix Agent on Raspbian

Once the server is ready, we can start to configure our agents.

Install the zabbix-agent :
sudo apt-get install zabbix-agent

Edit the configuration file :
sudo vi /etc/zabbix/zabbix_agentd.conf
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Raspberry pi backup using Rsync server and OpenVPN

1. Server setup

1.1 Initial setup

Initial steps :
– OpenVPN server
– OpenVPN client
– Rsync server

Then we are ready for this step !

1.2 Directories

Create folders for our daily backups for “bart” :
sudo mkdir -p /var/backups/raspberry/bart/daily/{1..7}
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Update RFLink gateway on Linux (Ubuntu)

RFLink is a great, flexible and opensource RF gateway for 433Mhz devices. I use it with Domoticz. Every few months, a new firmware is released and they add a lot of new devices. This post describe how to update an RFLink gateway in a Linux environment.
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