Category: Blog
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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 post I’ll run through a few of its features. Source Code: https://github.com/comeradealexi/RaspberryPiShared One of the features…
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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 our phones IP addresses on the local WiFi network and disables recording/monitoring when either of…
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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 is what I set out to achieve with this project. The entire project can be…
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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 part I got stuck on was that on a reboot, the folder in /var/run/lighttpd would…
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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. Hint: Crash isn’t necessarily 100%… #include <stdio.h> #include <thread> #include <vector> #include <mutex> #include <atomic>…