Raspberry Pi/C++ Log Class
With having written many Raspberry Pi programs now, it made sense for me to create a little Log class which I’ve used in all my projects now which I feel is really quite nice to use and intuitive. In this Continue Reading
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Raspberry Pi – Home Monitoring System
Using multiple Raspberry Pis, I’ve put together a small system to monitor my home when away. In order to maintain my own privacy, I’ve set up a system which detects when myself or my partner is home by periodically pinging Continue Reading
Raspberry Pi – Web Controlled Media Player
Having a spare TV and a hard drive full of videos, I wanted to make it so I could easily watch videos from a hard drive on the TV and control playback and video choice entirely from my phone, this Continue Reading
lighttpd – Changing default user (Raspberry Pi)
After following the great tutorial here (http://www.penguintutor.com/linux/light-webserver) for getting lighttpd setup and running on my Raspberry Pi, I wanted to change the default user the service ran as so I could run commands from php scripts requiring more permissions. The Continue Reading
std::mutex crash on initial lock (Interesting thread releated bug with fix included!)
Have been writing some code to test out creating worker threads in C++ and came across an interesting bug where my program would crash on the first lock of the mutex. Thought it was an interesting little problem to solve. Continue Reading
Guide: Sending an SMS with Raspberry Pi/Linux – Huawei E303 Mobile Dongle
For this guide I’ll be showing how I got my Huawei E303 Mobile Dongle to with with Gammu on the Raspberry Pi to send and receive SMS messages. This is the specific Huawei E303 I used. When I first started Continue Reading
Using Raspberry Pi to test Power Supply Reliability
I recently came across a problem with a friend whose computer was having strange issues of switching off entirely at random. We contacted the power supply support channels who suggested it sounded as if the surge protection on the motherboard Continue Reading
Problems with VisualGDB and Raspberry Pi 2
I followed the tutorial for setting up VisualGDB for a Raspberry Pi from this link: VisualGDB and below are some issues that I ran into and how I fixed them. Hope it helps! Compile Error: “bits/c++config.h: No such file or directory”: Continue Reading
[C#] HttpWebRequest not sending Cookies on Windows Phone
Had a similar problem to Jeroen Swart to do with Cookies in Windows Phone as he mentioned in his blog post here. Basically identical C# code to make a HttpWebRequest with a few cookies would work in a simple desktop Continue Reading
Steam Live gets a huge update.
Steam Live has received yet another huge update, this time adding some great new features and fixing some of those other little niggles! It’s an application that has been around for a while now and after a long stream of Continue Reading
C#: Class Member variable called ‘type’ causes weird compile issues caused by AVAST Antivirus.
Problem: Try and use this class in any C# project and it won’t work, it will give errors after compiling that it can’t copy the exe/dll with the following errors codes (warning MSB3026: and error MSB3027: and error MSB3021:) Renaming the ‘type’ Continue Reading
Windows Phone C#: “Layout cycle detected. Layout could not complete.” on LongListSelector Fix
Came across a very weird problem today that has occurred on my application Steam Live which I’ve never come across before… On a certain Steam Profile I’d get a crash with the following message: “Layout cycle detected. Layout could not Continue Reading
Windows Phone 8.1 DirectX Sample Landscape mode broken / rotation doesn’t work.
The Problem: When the phone is in landscape mode, the rendered area isn’t rotated on screen! As you can see, the image on the right is when it is in portrait mode, the one below is when in landscape. The problem Continue Reading