For the last few months I've been using Plex with Chromecast to stream video to my TV. The Plex Server runs on my laptop. The data is streamed over wifi through the laptop from a shared network drive (not NAS). I use the Plex iOS app on an iPad as a remote control. Probably not the best setup but it's been working pretty well.
I just heard about RasPlex "A Plex Client for the Raspberry Pi computer" and am trying to understand what it does that is different than my current set up.
In the iOS iPad app, I select Chromecast (connected to TV) to "cast" to – so is the iOS app the Plex Client? Would there be any advantage to switching to RasPlex?
Ideally what I would like to do is get the Plex Server onto a Raspbery Pi and free up my laptop – but apparently the Pi doesn't do transcoding.
A bit confused. . .
because the rasplex is a dedicated client, that automatically uses CEC over HDMI to select movies etc from. so basically a mini computer that turns itself automatically in a client without having to use other remote tools. so basically you turn your tv into a smart tv, as long as the rasplex is connected with wifi/network cable and hdmi
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I wanna catch probe requests of mobile devices that are not connected to a network using monitor mode on Raspberry pi 3. I am using Raspbian OS. I used "Wifite" command but it only shows the mac addresses of access points and not of the non connected mobile device. I am a beginner in networking and Raspberry pi. Kindly guide me which commands should I use for this purpose?
You might try looking into sniff-probes.
It switches WiFi channels every two seconds and captures incoming packets using tcpdump.
Let me explain my problem: I have a raspberry Pi with Kodi installed and I use it with a IPTV service. This service only allow me to use it in one device at a time and sometimes I want to use it on my phone.
I'd like to be able to turn off my raspberry remotely so I can watch it in my phone whenever I want. I tried to create a web server that would allow me to run a script that would turn off the device but I can't access it because the raspberry IP takes me to some kodi stuff.
So to sum up, I'd like to go to my raspberry IP with Kodi installed, press a button and turn off the device. The web stuff I can take care of.
Any thoughts?
The only safe way to do this is to have a VPN tunnel that lets you access your internal network. This is much safer than opening up a port to Kodi on your router. It would just attract every bot and hacker out there.
Once you have a working VPN tunnel between your home network and your smartphone, just use a Remote Control App to shut Kodi down cleanly.
You can use a Kodi remote app for your mobile device. E.g. Kore (official remote app for Android) does have a shutdown button.
I think the best and easy way is to install dataplicity in your Raspberry Pi and access via dataplicity web or the app (Android or iOS) to the Terminal and use the command: sudo shutdown -h now or sudo poweroff
I am trying to make my RPi 3 an AP using Windows 10 IoT core. RPi is connected with internet through Ethernet port and I want to make RPi 3 builtin WiFi to share internet with other devices. I have read documentation page but it is not working for me. I have tried with Windows IoT Onboarding and from PowerShell also. After selecting adapters from IoR Onboarding, clicked on start sharing service and a message appears which says "internet conncetion sharing has started" but I can't find network on other devices.
After selecting adapters from IoR Onboarding, clicked on start sharing
service and a message appears which says "internet conncetion sharing
has started" but I can't find network on other devices.
You could open Windows Device Portal and set your raspberry pi3 as the following instruction. Before doing this you would connect your raspberry pi3 with WLAN.
Select IoT Onboarding option on the left of the page. Then an Adapter configuration must be chosen. You could choose Access point adapter Microsoft Wi-Fi Direct Virtual Adapter #2 and choose Shared network adapter LAN9512/LAN9514 USB 2.0 to Ethernet 10/100 Adapter.
Then clicked on start sharing service. You could see the message appears which says "internet conncetion sharing has started".
At last make sure select enable in radio box and click on save button under the SoftAP settings. There is a message says reboot your raspberry pi3 for changes to take effect the SoftAP settings. Please click yes and your raspberry pi3 will be restarted.
After your raspberry pi3 is started you could connect your devices like PC or mobile phone on the SoftAP which is on raspberry pi3.
I have a RaspberryPi which is configured to automatically connect to my iPhone's wifi hotspot. I need to take the RaspberryPi to various locations for testing, and I often need to leave it at a location for extended periods of time (without my iPhone hotspot there). The RaspberryPi needs an internet connection in order to complete the testing properly.
I am trying find a solution which would allow me to SSH (or connect some other way) into the RaspberryPi while it is connected to my iPhone's wifi hotspot. This would allow me to add a new wifi network/password when I move to a new location (I usually can't get the wifi network/password in advance). In other words, I would move into a new location, the RaspberryPi would be connected to my hotspot and would begin testing, and once I obtain the wireless network/password for that location, I want to connect to the RaspberryPi to add that information so it can connect to the location's wifi network instead of my hotspot.
I don't have a portable monitor for the RaspberryPi so I can't just hook it up to a screen and make the changes that way.
Does anyone have any suggestions? Thanks in advance.
On the phone running this hotspot, I am assuming you can install apps that permit you to SSH into the Pi, headless? I'm doing this regularly, my choice app is JuiceSSH.
Alternately, a laptop connected to the same phone hotspot running an SSH client such as Putty can connect to the Pi across the same AP, also headlessly. You can update your WPA_supplicant file and reboot the Pi, making sure to bring down your hotspot before it fires up again and joins the new AP. I'm also doing this regularly.
Given the time (4 months) that's passed, you've likely figured this out already...
I bought an Bluetooth ELM327 to read codes out of my cars diagnostic ports
I connect to it via Bluetooth in windows and it makes a serial-over-bluetooth com port 4
which any application running on my windows will connect quite happily.
I then found a few apps for the iphone and android etc that connect to these ELM gadgets via WIFI and not Bluetooth (because for some reason you cannot pair to these devices of iphone)
Now obviously I can buy a WIFI enabled ELM327 - but it costs £130 and my Bluetooth one cost £15
So after reading about this a bit I found out that the WIFI enabled ones you connect up as ad-hoc network and the smartphone(iphone) app tenets in port 23 that relays normal serial commands.
So obviously in the WIFI enabled one there must be some processor that runs an nano-os with telnet and some rs-323 translators and not sure what else.
How, using Windows 7 will i be able to relay any incoming WIFI requests for Telnet port 23 to my COM 4 that is connected to my Bluetooth ELM327 ..
As this is surely all that is needed by the Smartphone app.
You dont have to connect using a Bluetooth library like suggested ... because you are already connected to the device and have COM4 exposed to you. SO all you have todo is use a telnet library and translate and handle the handshake then realy the infomation as serial data.
There's no feature built in to Windows (or any other platform I know of) for such a scenario.
It would be fairly straightforward however to write a program to listen on port 23 and open a bluetooth connection when connected to, and then forward the data received on each connection out onto the other.
For instance one could use my .NET library 32feet.NET (e.g. http://32feet.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=General%20Bluetooth%20Data%20Connections etc etc) along with TcpListener from the .NET framework class libraries.