w33k in g33k: August 22, 2025
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Sean P. McAdam
ClockworkPi Devices
- I had purchased a CM5 to put into either my DevTerm or uConsole, but didn’t realize the ClockworkPi core doesn’t let me just swap it out. I need to get the RPI CM4 Adapter for DevTerm & CPI v3.14, which should take the CM5 as well.. guess i’ll find that part out too.
- The above made me remember to actually pick my PicoCalc back up to play with.
- I want to revisit JBlanked’s Picoware OS, since I had just a few issues with it earlier, but now see there’s a v.1.3.0 that was released a few days ago. Hopefully this will fix the issues I was having.
- ClockworkPi Forum: Picoware (Open-Source Custom Firmware)
Containers (Podman, Docker, etc)
- A friend was trying to get BookStack working with Podman but was running into some issues. It made me want to re-look at Podman, just to see if I would move from Docker.
- Since I used this week to turn back on some of my Raspberry Pi’s, I can easily get Podman on one of them to test with.
Meshtastic \ LoRa
- After reading about some HackerPager users swapping the battery for a larger one, I figured I’d try to do the same. Tomorrow i should have a 3000mAh battery I can use to replace the included 1100mAh. I think I’ve been getting a little less than a day on a charge (maybe less), so this should hopefully help with that =]
- Since i was already purchasing the battery, I saw the MakerFocus ESP32 LoRa V3 Development Board available for pretty cheap, & decided to add that to the order so I can at least have 2 LoRa nodes, to play around a bit. Haven’t had luck finding other nodes in my area yet… I’m hoping that will change.
Photography
- Kickstarter: YASHICA FX-D: Your First Digital Film Simulation Camera: My dad was VERY into photography, especially film, so when I saw this project I wanted to back it for that reason. I’ve also been trying to get into a bit of photography myself.
- I don’t recall if I ordered the 100 or 300 version, but guess i will find out soon, once shipping starts for the camera.
Raspberry Pi
- I’m starting to put some of my Pi’s back online that i never set back up after the move. That had me trying to get my Arducam 16MP working with my RasPi4 & I’m not sure if I needed to be using Raspbian over Ubuntu, but I was finally able to get it working.
- Arducam: Quick Start Guide: Use rpicam to access Arducam Pivariety Camera
- I didn’t realize i didn’t have a RasPi5 adapter with the increased voltage, so i found out the hard way that it won’t boot off USB devices unless the config.txt is modified.
- Instead of running off MicroSD cards, I prefer to use a USB external SSD for my Pi’s, so I don’t have to worry about the cards burning out.
- Once I did get the proper adapter, modified the config.txt to try & get my camera working here, it takes AGES to start back up… i was about to wipe the device & start from scratch before testing one more time & the system was back up.
- With both of these Pi’s + cameras working again, I got Syncthing setup on both & created a new function \ alias there, to make taking photos easier \ quicker. When I run
rpicam-photo
it will take the photo & drop it into a specific Syncthing folder, so that all my devices get the photos, no need to manually transfer off the Pi’s.
selfh.st: Self-Host Weekly (22 August 2025)
Projects from selfh.st that i want to look into.
- GitHub: rommapp / romm: “A beautiful, powerful, self-hosted rom manager and player.”
- I keep putting this on my list to look at & never get back to it…
- GitHub: streamyfin / streamyfin: “A Jellyfin client built with Expo”
- I’m trying to use my Jellyfin setup more than my Plex, so I’ve been trying out different apps i come across.
- GitHub: LukeGus / Termix: “Termix is a web-based server management platform with SSH terminal, tunneling, and file editing capabilities.”
- Maybe something to help centralize management of my devices across the network.
- GitHub: cogwheel0 / conduit: “Native mobile client for Open‑WebUI. Chat with your self‑hosted AI.”
- I’m pretty sure I have Open-WebUI running somewhere… dedicated app would be nice to play with.
- GitHub: fccview / cronmaster: “Cron management made easy”
- As I’m setting up additional backup jobs for files on my network, using cron more & more, so this jumped out at me.
- GitHub: App Store Preview: Notify: Website Monitoring: “Monitor Website Changes - Directly From Your iPhone”
- I’m thinking about using this even for my internal pages, just to see if it would notify me if something went down.
- Parachute Backup Mobile: “Set-and-forget iCloud backup companion for iOS”
- I definitely want to look at this if it’s an easy iCloud replacement.
- /r/selfhosted: Parachute Backup for Mobile is here, allows you to backup your entire iCloud Drive & iCloud Photo library to your own storage, NAS, network drives, external drives, etc. I’m here to answer any questions you may have!
- GitHub: Loriage / Review: “Review - Plex Dashboard for iOS”
- As much as i want to start using Jellyfin more, I’ll still probably have Plex around for a bit.
- GitHub: hritwikjohri / Void-for-jellyfin: “Void is an experimental native Android client for Jellyfin, built entirely with Kotlin and Jetpack Compose. Its goal is to offer a modern, minimal interface for browsing, streaming, and downloading media from a self-hosted Jellyfin server.”
- Jellyfin app to try out.
- GitHub: flohoss / gocron: “A go based task scheduler with GUI”
- Interesting project i might add to my list of things to try.