CloudACM – Page 69 – Autonomous Computational Machines

RPi email using sSMTP

December 23, 2014 Patrick Gilfeather

Introduction – There has got to be an easier way. After setting up Cacti and automating tasks with CRON and Webmin, email notification was the next step. Searches for sending email from Linux typically generate results that gravitate around sendmail. This is no different for the RPi. Sendmail has its good points, but its a service that runs constantly and provides features well beyond simple email notification. I wanted a binary that just sends emails and only runs when I need…

True RPi Infra Red Imaging

December 19, 2014 Patrick Gilfeather

Introduction – It can start with an email In this case, it did. The folks over at Sparkfun sent me product offering email that had an interesting breakout, the FLIR Dev Kit. This is essentially a camera module that senses in the infra red spectrum. They mention some details about the breakout on their website, so go check it out if you want more details. Purpose – They have an app for that…no, seriously they do. A few months back I…

My Book – Raspberry Pi MDAQ

December 18, 2014 Patrick Gilfeather

Introduction – I have a book…sorta One of the goals of this quarter, as well as the following quarters, is to publish the posts into a book format. My ebook is in draft on Leanpub. I have to admit the markup language and procedures for uploading the content took a bit to get used to. Once I got past that, the content from the posts were a snap to get on the book. Purpose – Whats the big deal about a book?…