For a long time, a Raspberry Pi was a common suggestion for people looking to set up their first Home Assistant server. While it wasn't perfect, it was good enough for many setups. Sadly, the ...

That day, nothing was workingI built a server with a Raspberry Pi. Games were running. Daily LINE messages were arriving.Once ...

Jeff's been involved in the IT industry since before the Internet and spent more than 20 years working in technical support, system administration, network administration, and consulting roles. He ...

What if you could transform a humble Raspberry Pi into a fully functional network-attached storage (NAS) server? It sounds ambitious, even improbable, given the Raspberry Pi’s reputation as a ...

The Raspberry Pi Zero isn't fast, but it's the reason my high-availability PVE cluster remains operational ...

The Raspberry Pi is great for DIY projects, but it has a few limitations that become obvious once you start connecting ...

The benefits of smart home automation may keep you from ever going back to a "dumb" home again. Controlling the temperature, turning on the lights, locking the doors, and seeing who's at the door — ...

A popular project for a Raspberry Pi single-board computer is to create a wireless print server, one of the many unexpected use cases of an old Raspberry Pi. This is a simple hack to turn a ...

Jeff's been involved in the IT industry since before the Internet and spent more than 20 years working in technical support, system administration, network administration, and consulting roles. He ...

I previously wrote about how I turned the Raspberry Pi I received as a souvenir into a home server. Since then, the Raspberry ...

I’ve used Twitter every single day for the last 15 years or so. It’s been an immeasurable tool that’s helped me do my job, but more importantly, it was a networking tool that helped me get new ...

Mini PCs win on compute, but they can't touch the real world like a Pi can.