I have a Topfield 5800 PVR (personal video recorder). It has a USB socket that can be used to transfer software and recordings to or from the PVR. Connecting this USB socket to my Raspberry Pi bare bones computer (that’s on all the time) allows me to do a few useful things: Download up to … Read more
Add normal user account On other computers in my home network I have the user name “jim”. For convenient logging into the Pi it’s useful to have an account with the same name. This is easily created as follows (when logged in as root): Now I can login from my main computer with a simple … Read more
External disc drive setup I need to attach a decent size disc drive to my Pi to store radio recordings from my PVR. It will also allow me to create files, and use swap space, without worrying about wearing out the SD card. Given that I’m using a disc drive, it makes sense to put … Read more
Reminder: this is not a tutorial on how to set up a Raspberry Pi. I’ll be going a long way “off piste” compared to the usual way of doing things. This illustrates how flexible and customisable Linux can be, but when I get into difficulty there’s no support to help solve problems. Memory usage I … Read more
I’m a bit late to jump on the bandwagon, but I’ve finally got round to buying myself a Raspberry Pi bare bones computer. There are many web pages out there with good tutorials on how to set up a Pi. This is not one of them. It’s just a brief account of what I’ve done … Read more