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My RPi HVAC Project

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When I got my first Pi I started with some basic projects. I learned how to control relays, how to take temperature readings, how to build a LAMP stack, as well as many other projects. I learned a lot about Linux and Python.

I decide to try and control my home furnace and air conditioner from a Pi. Seemed like a simple project: read the temperature, turn the furnace on or off. It’s not that straightforward.

I got the sensors and the relays working. I stored settings and temperatures in a database. Now I needed an interface. I got a web server running and set out to build a secure interface with a public and private side that would interact with database. It didn’t take long to see that WordPress was a lot better solution than anything I could come up with.

Chromium Media Edition for RPi Pixel

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Chromium sucks for streaming on the Raspberry Pi Pixel Desktop. One of my gripes was Youtube TV, ‘format not supported.’ Chromium Media Edition is much better. Ventz Petkov has a sweet install script. Here’s the tl;dr version.

curl -fsSL https://pi.vpetkov.net -o ventz-media-pi
sh ventz-media-pi

Check out his article at Raspberry Pi Netflix One Line Easy Install – along with Hulu, Amazon Prime, Disney Plus, HBO, Spotify, Pandora, and many others

Vivaldi for RPi Pixel

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Chromium sucks for streaming on the Raspberry Pi Pixel Desktop. One of my gripes was Youtube, if I fast forward (hitting the arrow key) to advance through a video, ‘Aw, Snap!’ was sure to pop up. It’s a lot less of a problem if you’re over clocking. Chromium Media Edition has the same problem too. It’s not a problem if you’re using Vivalda.

Download Vivaldi

Grab the Linux DEB ARM version.

Start Up with New User

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#!/bin/bash




# Clone a user and prvileges. I got most of my information from
# https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/204970/clone-linux-user-copy-user-based-on-another-one

# New user and password
NEW_USER=
NEW_PASS=

# user to be cloned, $USER is the current user. 
SRC_USER=$USER

# get the groups the source user belongs to
SRC_GROUPS=$(id -Gn ${SRC_USER} | sed "s/ /,/g" | sed -r 's/\<'${SRC_USER}'\>\b,?//g')

# get the shell of the source user
# SRC_SHELL=$(awk -F : -v name=${SRC_USER} '(name == $1) { print $7 }' /etc/passwd)
# Rasbian defaults to bash, Ubuntu to sh. I like bash better.
SRC_SHELL='/bin/bash'

# create user then add the passwordc
sudo useradd --groups ${SRC_GROUPS} --shell ${SRC_SHELL}  --create-home ${NEW_USER}
echo "${NEW_USER}:${NEW_PASS}" | sudo chpasswd

# The new user will be asked their password and I don't like that. This stops it.
echo | sudo EDITOR='tee -a' visudo
echo '# Stop asking for my password' | sudo EDITOR='tee -a' visudo
echo "${NEW_USER} ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL" | sudo EDITOR='tee -a' visudo




# change the timezone and here are the common US zones
#            America/New_York 
#            America/Chicago 
#            America/Denver 
#            America/Los_Angeles 
sudo timedatectl set-timezone America/Detroit




# Gotta always do this
sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade -y
sudo apt clean

# Raspbian doesn't have git and Ubuntu doesn't have unzip.
sudo apt install git unzip -y




# # RPi4 overclocking
# sudo sed -i 's|^#arm_freq=800|arm_freq=2147|' /boot/config.txt
# sudo sed -i '/arm_freq=/ a gpu_freq=750' /boot/config.txt
# sudo sed -i '/arm_freq=/ a over_voltage=6' /boot/config.txt
# sudo sed -i '/arm_freq=/ a \\n# adding gpu_freq and over_voltage settings' /boot/config.txt

SSHFS

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SSHFS

sudo sshfs -o allow_other,default_permissions root@xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:/ /mnt/droplet
sudo sshfs -o allow_other,default_permissions pi@192.168.21.84:/home/pi /mnt/hvac/home

sudo sshfs -o allow_other,default_permissions pi@192.168.21.84:/var/www/html/wp-content /mnt/hvac/wp-content

sudo nano /etc/fstab
sshfs#pi@192.168.21.84:/home/pi /mnt/hvac/home
sshfs#pi@192.168.21.84:/var/www/html/wp-content /mnt/hvac/wp-content

RPi Speed and Temp

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clear && printf 'current\n' && sudo cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/cpuinfo_cur_freq && printf '\nmin\n' && sudo cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/cpuinfo_min_freq && printf '\nmax\n' && sudo cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/cpuinfo_max_freq && printf '\ntemp\n' && cat /sys/class/thermal/thermal_zone0/temp && echo

https://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/questions/1219/how-do-i-determine-the-current-mhz

https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=34994