Paul Verrall's Blog

I wanted to use a Raspberry Pi to act as a Bluetooth audio receiver or my Hi-Fi so that I could connect a phone/tablet easily to some proper speakers wirelessly. Rather than reinventing the wheel 'kmonkey' has already achieved most of what I set out to do over here ; check this out first. The only issue now is the manual intervention needed to connect up a new Bluetooth source to the output sink. I initially created a simple bash script to poll pulseaudio (every 5 seconds) and run the necessary commands as and when a new device is connected. You can see the script here and all the pertinent commands are explained over in kmonkey's blog. This is all good, but will need to be run manually using something like, # nohup ./bt_audio_attach & This is a bit rubbish and you'll be pleased to know there is a better way to get this done, UDEV! Over at the Raspbery Pi forums   there's some discussion on using UDEV scripts to auto...

There are may reasons why would might like to run a headless Debian server on your home network. I have mine primarily as as file-store, serving video, music and pictures to my Windows MCE PC (you see I'm not one of these Windows hating Linux nerds, use the right tool for the right job I say!). Being headless and tucked away in a dark corner it's important to be able to manage the system with little fuss, and I use ssh to login and administer the system remotely. The question here though is 'When do I know that I need login and do something?'. I ideally want to know asap if there are some important security updates ( apticron ), or that the raid ( mdadm ) has run into some trouble or if some important cron job has spewed some helpful output. Lucky for me is was fairly straightforward to configure the server to email my google mail (gmail) account whenever it has something important to say, and here's how I did it! I have this working on both Lenny and Squeeze. ...