Introduction

I picked up one of the new Raspberry Pi Zero W boards from ModMyPI almost as soon as I heard about it. So for my first project, I decided to set up FreshRSS, an RSS reader that can be used with sqlite, on it.

You can see how small the board is when compared to a RPi2 in the im...

Piracy, it's everywhere: an unstoppable force that has aimed to subvert legitimate supply of entertainment since the dawn of motion pictures. Over the last few decades it has taken many forms: bootlegged VHS and DVD copies, digital copies, and most prominently in the press, illegitimate streaming...

Tvheadend is a comprehensive and full-featured piece of software that readily transforms your perception of TV and how it is accessed. However, this comprehensiveness comes at a price - epic levels of configuration. For those that have only just started looking at this as a solution, here is a guide...

As discussed in the APU2 Review, the IP Bill has now been passed as law in the UK. Here is another solution that can be used as a pfSense router, the Jetway JBC313.

The design and hardware

Price£210.00 (Jan '17 - Excluding Postage) CPUIntel Celeron N3160 Quad-Core (up to 2.24 GHz)RAM Not...

Well, with the January blues out the way, we can march on with the rest of the year and you can expect more excellent content from us! Moving forward, we will be posting update posts more frequently but if you want to keep up to date with our current goings on, please follow our Twitter and Faceb...

The next step in the long line of things I've been doing to my HP ProLiant Gen8 Microserver was to give it some TV capability. Since moving house last year, the living room has been set up in such a way that I don't have access to an aerial port near the TV. Naturally, the idea of just buying a real...

For many years I happily made do with the 802.11n capability of my Sky Fibre router. It worked, and I was happy. That was until I bought a Chromecast and a Raspberry Pi 3. My wireless streaming activity skyrocketed and the router was unable to keep up, with its paltry 2.4GHz transmitter. In my house...

The Investigatory Powers Bill has now passed as law in the United Kingdom, meaning the UK Government has been provided with a wider reach and fewer restrictions over their ability to track the home internet usage of every British resident. Now is the time to start considering a more robust solutio...

SSH is one of those tools that once you learn you wonder how you ever lived without it. Today, we'll cover some tricks to pimp your SSH workflow using the ~/.ssh/config file.

Getting Started with SSH

SSH (Secure Socket sHell) provides a secure way to access another computer. The most common us...