Yesterday, on the 6th of October 2020, we have released the new version of PiCockpit – which has many new, exciting features.And best of all: PiCockpit continues to be free of charge (as in free beer), for up to 5 Raspberry Pis! Get started for free today.What is picockpit.com?PiCockpit is an easy to use web [...]
For the upcoming PiCockpit v2.0 release, I am preparing a GPIO application.The GPIO entries are table rows – and to configure them, we want to be able to access the detail row by clicking on the configure button:clicking either the chevron or the configure button will lead to the detail row opening:Here is the corresponding [...]
The upcoming picockpit-client reacts to deletion events from the frontend by disabling it’s service (the application will stay installed, however).Similarly, when you decide to run picockpit-client connect again, the service will be re-enabled and started automatically for you.This is possible using the Python DBus interface.the DBus is a bus system for interacting with other applications. [...]
I used this excellent guide to update my Raspbian from Stretch to Buster:https://pimylifeup.com/upgrade-raspbian-stretch-to-raspbian-buster/After rebooting my Pi, the SSH connection was gone. Logging into the Pi using the attached keyboard and monitor allowed me to debug the issue:service ssh statusjournalctl -u ssh -n 200"Missing privilege separation directory /run/sshd"This directory needs to be created at startup for [...]
picockpit.com makes heavy use of MQTT. For the upcoming version 2.0 I have decided to switch it to MsgPack.Why MsgPack?MsgPack (actually called MessagePack – packages tend to use MsgPack) is a binary format, aimed at compatibility with JSON, but decreasing file size (which is good for saving bandwidth & server resources).Another advantage: MessagePack allows you [...]
A friend forwarded me an email, asking me (and other undisclosed recipients) to sign a petition to continue German support for Nepal.I decided to support her and her cause, spending a minute of my time on this.But this minute turned into this blogpost. And it has a valuable lesson for all of us:if people actually [...]
Customers were complaining about not being able to download big files from our websites (e.g. PiDoctor on PiCockpit.com). Initially I could not replicate the issue locally, the files seemed to be downloading fine.After further investigation I determined that the downloads were cutting out after a certain time – depending on your download speed, thus, for [...]