TermiShell: a web-based shell for the Raspberry Pi (development notes)

By Maximilian Batz | 2020-05-05

Introduction In the course of development of PiCockpit, I am going to add a web-based Terminal called TermiShell. TermiShell icon, by: Stephanie Harvey via unsplash.com TermiShell is going to allow you to log into your Raspberry Pi using PiCockpit.com (and the picockpit-client) – no additional application required on either side. This should be very comfortable,…

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Creating configuration files in /etc in Debian packages

By Maximilian Batz | 2020-04-05

I am currently working on an updated picockpit-client version, which should add additional configuration files in /etc/picockpit-client for the individual modules (PiDoctor & PiControl). picockpit-client is a Raspbian package for picockpit.com, linking the Web platform with your individual Raspberry Pi. As Raspbian is based on Debian, the following information holds true for general packaging for…

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Eclipse Paho MQTT JavaScript Documentation

By Maximilian Batz | 2020-03-11

Unfortunately the official Eclipse page which you  can easily find using Google does NOT link to the documentation proper (at least not as far as I can see it). The link to the documentation itself is this: https://www.eclipse.org/paho/files/jsdoc/Paho.MQTT.Client.html Happy coding.

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Fixing Uncaught ReferenceError: Vue is not defined with webpack

By Maximilian Batz | 2020-02-27

I am moving to a workflow using WebPack, which bundles code. While transitioning, I stumbled across this error: Uncaught ReferenceError: Vue is not defined at eval (external “Vue”?548a:1) at Object.<anonymous> (pcp_mainbundle.js:172) at __webpack_require__ (pcp_mainbundle.js:20) at eval (pcpVue.js?6cb8:1) at Object.<anonymous> (pcp_mainbundle.js:196) at __webpack_require__ (pcp_mainbundle.js:20) at eval (pcpMain.js?814e:1) at Object.<anonymous> (pcp_mainbundle.js:189) at __webpack_require__ (pcp_mainbundle.js:20) at Object.<anonymous> (pcp_mainbundle.js:181)…

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vue.js history vs hash mode on a subpath

By Maximilian Batz | 2020-02-24

In case you are mounting your vue Router not on the root page, but a “subpath”, there is an important difference in the behavior of Vue Router in history and hash mode. History mode If you want, for example, to use https://picockpit.local/debug/ to have the Vue Router live on, in history mode: The following routes…

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How to use catch all routes with Kemal

By Maximilian Batz | 2020-02-23

For a Vue.js single page application – at least on a SUB URL of our page – we want a catch all on our server, which will always render the same template / HTML output to the browser. Kemal is internally based on Radix for routing: https://github.com/luislavena/radix Radix has a Catch All / Glob character:…

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VerneMQ how to disconnect clients forceably per command line

By Maximilian Batz | 2019-08-08

There is a command vmq-admin session show which will show you the currently connected clients: Unfortunately, this output is truncated for a total width of 80 characters (no matter how many would fit) and there is currently no indication that it is. See this VerneMQ Github issue: https://github.com/vernemq/vernemq/issues/1200 To disconnect clients you need the client_id…

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