Raspberry PI
Installs and Tips for Any PI Owner
Mount a USB Drive to a Raspberry PI
This guide will show you how to Mount a USB Drive to a Raspberry PI for extra Storage For using on a Plex server or a NAS PI OS will automatically mount a USB Drive which will be fine for most cases however for use on a plex server mounting it so you can access…
How to setup a Raspberry PI Plex Server
Plex is a great way of sharing all your media including Films, TV Shows Music and Photos to any client on your Network Follow the guide if you need to on how toPrepare an SD Card for Raspberry PI When the PI is on and ready login via a SSH Session on through the terminal…
About the Raspberry PI Guides
An introduction to the PI Guides I wanted to use 3 Raspberry PI’s for certain Projects Looking at the guides around the Net i tried to configure the first 2 PI’s and constantly ran into issues with certain commands not working and i had to wipe and start again These guides i have written or…
Prepare an SD Card for Raspberry PI
This will go through the Install of a OS onto an SD Card ready for your PI First download the Official Raspberry Pi Imager https://www.raspberrypi.com/software/ When run you will see the following screen Select CHOOSE OS You will see a List of OS that you can choose from.For most cases the Raspberry PI OS (32Bit)…
Install Pi Hole on a Raspberry PI
This guide will Take you through installing Pi Hole onto any Raspberry PII follwed a few guides and most i seemed to have issues with like some commands not working or how to do extra config stuff so i decided to put what i did here First thing is if you dont know what PI…
Copy the Sd card to USB Stick or drive and boot from USB Without the SD Card Inserted
For this Guide it will be assumed that you have followed the previous guides on setting up your Sdcard and you can either SSH into the PI or use the terminal from the Desktop The first thing you should know is Why ?, You have a nice new SD Card so why use a USB…
How to Boot from USB on Raspberry PI
From the Terminal or SSH Session echo program_usb_boot_mode=1 | sudo tee -a /boot/config.txt sudo reboot 3. After Reboot SSH in or Run Terminal and type vcgencmd otp_dump | grep 17: If the PI has been set you should see 17:3020000a appear if you see 17:1020000a then it is not USB Bootable and you will need…
Backup and Restore PI Hole Config
This will go through how to backup and restore a Pi Hole Config Open up the admin page of your Pi Hole Server Click on Settings in the left menu Then select Teleporter from the top menu To Backup just click the Backup button and this will download a backup to your local computer in…
Install Unbound DNS Resolver For PI Hole
This is an easy install which will help secure your network and also speed browsing up when using Pi Hole So what is Unbound and why Use it ? Unbound is a validating, recursive, caching DNS resolver. It is designed to be fast and lean and incorporates modern features based on open standards. Late 2019,…
Manage Ad Lists in Pi Hole
This will guide you around the Ad Lists , Black list and White List option in Pi Hole A Pi Hole install is only as good as the Ad Lists it uses to know what to block So here is a list of ad lists that i use This is no means a complete block…