I have used PiVPN for many projects over the past few years. It makes setting up a VPN gateway really easy and now supports Wireguard as well as OpenVPN. I have started using it more often since they added the ability for it to be installed on a vanilla Ubuntu installation, it no longer needs to be run on a Raspberry Pi. One of the problems I have come across a few time with PiVPN is when the public IP address of DNS name of the VPN gateway changes. Read more...

After a lot of trial and error getting a test Cisco 7906G handset working with an Asterisk PBX I thought it would be useful to make a note of the configuration options I used and the files that finally worked. They are all hosted on [GitHub]https://github.com/dannymcc/Cisco-7906G-SIP. TFTP/DHCP Configuration During boot the handsets will discover the TFTP server via DHCP option 66 and/or DHCP option 150. For this example I set option 66 of our VoIP VLAN to the local IP address of our TFTP server. Read more...

I recently needed to receive .txt files from a laboratory analyser, convert it to PDF and then transfer it to a local SMB share - but - the analyser results text file has to be over 30 minutes old before the whole process begins. Once the file has been converted, it needs to be deleted from the analyser server sl that it doesn’t fill up the local hard drive. The analyser server in this instance was a Raspberry Pi 3 B+ with a LAN connection. Read more...

This is the first post of this new blog. I have made many blogs over the years and not one of them lasts more than a few weeks, or in some cases, days. My aim is to use this as a unified location for everything that I want to remember in the future. Let’s see how that goes… It’s entirely possible that this blog will not be updated very often, but, I hope it is. Read more...