Samir Makwana
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1 week ago |
xda-developers.com | Samir Makwana
Whenever I travel, I miss the reliable home Wi-Fi network to stay connected. I, too, have ignorantly connected my devices to public Wi-Fi networks, Airbnbs, cafés, hotels, and other public places without considering the security risks. I decided to turn my Raspberry Pi into a travel router and carry it everywhere possible. RaspAP is a popular free software that turns the Raspberry Pi into a wireless router. I had a Raspberry Pi lying around and wanted to put it to good use.
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1 week ago |
xda-developers.com | Samir Makwana
Monitoring the health of a Raspberry Pi server without a GUI is tricky. Running commands in the Terminal over SSH sounded cool, but I wasn't aware of the high system usage and overheating issues. So, I tried Cockpit, a web-based GUI for system health monitoring for Linux servers, to manage my Raspberry Pi and realized how it was sorely missing from the bouquet of my self-hosted apps. Of course, I know the top commands, but it's not easy to troubleshoot system health issues with just that.
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1 week ago |
xda-developers.com | Samir Makwana
Managing multiple accounts and subscriptions did not guarantee the availability of my favorite show, book, or song. So, I took the self-hosting route to build a bank of my favorite multimedia content. That's why I trusted Docker to ease the task of deploying and configuring various media apps. Using separate Docker containers, I can stream movies, shows, songs, podcasts, ebooks, and digital comics from a single machine at home.
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1 week ago |
xda-developers.com | Samir Makwana
Sharing the internet connection at home with family and various devices is exhausting. I experience the struggle during team video calls while my family streams content on their devices nonchalantly. These network slowdowns or congestion will occur at certain times. That posed a question: Should I upgrade my quarter-gigabit (250Mbps) home connection or spend extra bucks on more bandwidth and an expensive router?
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2 weeks ago |
xda-developers.com | Samir Makwana
Setting up Home Assistant armed my home with the smarts I always wanted. The next logical step was to create automation using the different IoT devices. Still teething around my way with automation, I found the visual editor easy to use instead of editing the YAML configuration files. Thankfully, Home Assistant provides a handful of user-friendly features to kick off the journey to build automation with the least hassle.
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