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Linux Automation Tip: How to Send Messages from Python to Your Slack Channels

Slack is a hugely popular live group chat system. While a lot of my notifications now go to Discord, as I wrote about here, Slack is still more popular with development teams, and it is what we use in …

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pi entertainment centre

Linux Automation Tips: Create a Boot/Start Menu with Python

You may have seen in the Maker Hacks Facebook Group the latest iteration of my Raspberry Pi based entertainment center. It’s now got to the point where I need a boot menu, so I thought I would …

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GrovePi Gyro, Buttons, Displays

Using Grove Sensors, Buttons, and Displays, with Raspberry Pi and Python

Grove sensors are a plug and play way to add sensors, buttons, displays, and actuators to your electronics projects, without soldering. Let's take a look how well they work when paired with a …

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Linux Automation Scheduling and Starting Scripts on Boot

Linux Automation Tips: Running Scripts Automatically

Running commands from the shell is all well and good, but what if you don’t want to always be logging into your terminal? What if the script, or even server, crashes or needs to reboot? In this …

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Password-Less SSH Login Linux

Password-Less SSH Access to Your Linux Machine or Raspberry Pi Using Public Keys

If you are logging in and out of a Linux machine, especially a Raspberry Pi on your local network, it can be a pain to keep entering a password. The longer and more secure your password, the more of a …

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kill a running script bash

Linux Automation Tip: Kill Script if Already Running

Here is a shell script that will allow you to kill a script if it is already running #!/usr/bin/env bash ps -ef | grep $1 | awk '{print $2}' | xargs kill -9 Supply the name of the script as the first …

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Linux Automation Tip: Listen for Commands with your Discord Bot using Python

A Discord bot that only SENDS messages is all well and good, but really we want our bots to interact. We need to make them listen and respond.

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ping discord with python

Linux Automation Tip: Send Messages to Your Discord Server Using Python

I am on a mission to declutter my email. Once you get past the unsubscribe/filter stage, the next thing is to get the important information in a different way. Once I started down this path, however, …

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Email Your Raspberry Pi IP Address on Boot

A common complaint from Raspberry Pi owners is when running headless (no monitor or keyboard). If the Pi reboots then you lose your login session and often the previous IP address. Using …

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Linux and BASH

Linux Automation Tip: Repeat Commands with Loops and Delays

Unix and Linux are a lot more powerful for automation than people from other operating systems know, that power is under the hood in Macosx (via the BSD Unix foundations) and that power is making its …

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TP Link Powerline Ethernet Adapter

Cheap solution for WiFi dead spots – TP-Link PowerLine Ethernet Review

When I put together my brand new Virtual Reality PC I immediately encountered a problem. Wifi dead zone.

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