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  • Using a Cheap USB GPS Module (VK-162) with Python

    I recently picked up a VK-162 USB GPS module from AliExpress for about $8. It’s a simple, plug-and-play GPS receiver that presents itself as a serial device (on Windows, it shows up as a COM port) as opposed to most cheap GPS units, which only offer a UART output.

  • Hosting the Omada Software Controller on a  Raspberry Pi

    The process of installing the Omada Software Controller on a Raspberry Pi is reasonably straightforward, with a few quirks due to the platform not being officially supported by TP-Link Omada.

  • The T-Deck Plus is a great LoRa product made by Lillygo that includes all the necessary hardware to use the Meshtastic framework in an easy-to-use form factor. The problem is the default UI is… awful. It’s designed for small OLED read-only devices, and thus does not take advantage of the Blackberry-eqsue nature of the T-Deck…

  • Someone on LowEndTalk recently posted a great script to automatically configure IPv6 on Online.net’s dedicated servers.  Since I’ve recently been using one of their 2EUR Kidéchire specials as a Deluge & SABnzbd box I found this quite useful. Script Usage: This script is designed to be run on an Online.net Dedicated Server, it has been tested on:…

  • Observium is a neat PHP based system monitoring platform that I’ve been using lately, it’s fairly easy to install (Observium + Nginx/PHP-FPM install guide Coming Soon!) and provides a large variety of easy to read graphs of system information. Observium is an autodiscovering SNMP based network monitoring platform written in PHP which includes support for…

  • This is a little script I’ve been tinkering with for a bit now, it installs LXDE + NoMachine for remote desktop access.  It’s a minimalist script based around low ram usage (perfect for LEBs!), it just installs a bare desktop, a web browser(iceweasel) and a means to access it, any other programs i.e. VPN, torrent…