Raspberry PI

Raspian Linux image

- write to a ntfs external HD, 

configure /etc/fstab according to http://www.liberiangeek.net/2012/04/auto-mount-windows-ntfs-partitions-in-ubuntu-12-04-precise-pangolin/

UUID="822482F72482ED8B" /media/Pladde ntfs-3g defaults,auto,uid=1000,gid=1000,umask=000 0 0

- podcast: 

install "podracer"

- mail server and sending mails using the gmail account

mutt is your tool of choice
use this instruction from lifehacker 
and then, from 2013 onward sudo apt-get install  libsasl2-modules
  then echo "hello from raspi"   | mutt test@mail.com test

- couchpotato: dowload movies when the are available

follow this guide http://raspberry-blog.com/howto/installing-couchpotato-on-raspberry-pi/

- rtmp

Some radio streams are not available as mp3... solution: use a script to dump the stream and convert it to the mp3 Here the bash script, install rtmdump and mplayer and avconv

#!/bin/bash
URL="${1}"
FILEmp3="${URL##*\/}"
FILEwav="${FILEmp3%%.*}.wav"
FILE3="${FILEwav%%.*}.mp3"
WDIR="$(mktemp -d "/tmp/rtpdump.XXXXXX")"
trap 'rm -rf "${WDIR}"' EXIT INT HUP
rtmpdump -r ${URL} -o ${WDIR}/${FILEmp3}
mplayer ${WDIR}/${FILEmp3} -ao pcm:file=${FILEwav}
avconv -i $FILEwav  "$FILE3"
rm $FILEwav

- Samba 

according to http://www.forum-raspberrypi.de/Thread-tutorial-samba-windows-freigabe-server-installation-raspbian-debian and dont forget to add the support for symlinks in case you would like to use an mounted device

http://www.maistech.net/2011/09/ubuntu-server-samba-sharing-with.html

- Sync your data do the cloud

Dropbox aint working: no support for the ARM chip. Therefore I used BOX.com, as descriebd here:
http://linuxfordummies.org/mount-your-box-com-account-in-linux/
EDIT: dropbox seems to work now: see https://github.com/andreafabrizi/Dropbox-Uploader 

- Check & Monitor temperature... and mail it to you

https://github.com/fechu/PiTemp nice script for local display
and
https://sites.google.com/site/benhewitttechnology/raspberry-pi-with-xivley for the internet of things (may fail if network connection is to slow while torrenting)

- control podcast remote with a smartphone:

install vlc
and make sure you use the 3.5mm jack (thanks to this post)

sudo modprobe snd_bcm2835sudo amixer cset numid=3 1

edit  sudo nano /usr/share/vlc/lua/http/.hosts according to http://wiki.videolan.org/Documentation:Modules/http_intf#Access_control
start vlc on boot based on http://mvpmc.wikispaces.com/vlc the script , add  the --extraintf=http in the vlc call at the end and 

and finally add the script with 

update-rc.d vlc defaults

convert youtube to mp3 bash script

this nice script will do it
call it youtube2mp3.sh and call it up like  youtube2mp3 "url youtube" "title.mp3"


x=~/.youtube-dl-$RANDOM-$RANDOM.flv
youtube-dl --output=$x --format=18 "$1"
ffmpeg -i $x -acodec libmp3lame -ac 2 -ab 128k -vn -y "$2"
rm $x

prerequisites here; http://askubuntu.com/questions/218932/convert-youtube-to-mp3

bis Tests

ftp server vsftpd

after  adding dyndns for static IP access

sudo apt-get install vsftpd
added an ftp user

sudo adduser 

2010 eddition: ubuntu server 10.04 on a DELL OPTLIPLEX G620

Well ,my T22 is dying after 4 years. So I got a new old DELL and the what I will do is

• install  ubuntu 10.04 server edition
• LAMP and SAMBA Packages

and then hook up my webcam, transmission including moblock (shall i give a try to the TOR and proxify as well ?) and  a mail server... then lets start

• dowloaded and installed ubuntu-10.04-server-i386.iso 
• installe LAMP, OpenSSH, SAMBA fileserver and MailServer
• no root pwd on mysql

Postinstallation

done

• Static IP: 

using this time 192.168.1.221

• Port forwarding on router

• SAMBA 

Follow this guide:http://www.unixmen.com/linux-tutorials/566-install-samba-server-in-ubuntu-karmic but used the existing user for

sudo smbpasswd  -a   "myuser"

Adding 

follow symlinks = yes
wide links = yes
unix extensions = no

to have access as well to mounted external harddrives

• Transmission torrent

Following this guide http://www.techdrivein.com/2010/06/install-new-improved-transmission-20-in.html  
used this settings $ sudo nano /var/lib/transmission-daemon/info/settings.json
{
    "alt-speed-down": 50,
    "alt-speed-enabled": false,
    "alt-speed-time-begin": 540,
    "alt-speed-time-day": 127,
    "alt-speed-time-enabled": false,
    "alt-speed-time-end": 1020,
    "alt-speed-up": 50,
    "bind-address-ipv4": "0.0.0.0",
    "bind-address-ipv6": "::",
    "blocklist-enabled": false,
    "cache-size-mb": 2,
    "dht-enabled": true,
    "download-dir": "/home/daevu/download",
    "download-limit": 1000,
    "download-limit-enabled": 0,
    "encryption": 2,
    "idle-seeding-limit": 30,
    "idle-seeding-limit-enabled": false,
    "incomplete-dir": "/home/daevu/Downloads",
    "incomplete-dir-enabled": false,
    "lazy-bitfield-enabled": true,
    "lpd-enabled": false,
    "max-peers-global": 200,
    "message-level": 2,
    "open-file-limit": 32,
    "peer-limit-global": 240,
    "peer-limit-per-torrent": 60,
    "peer-port": 53958,
    "peer-port-random-high": 64000,
    "peer-port-random-low": 42000,
    "peer-port-random-on-start": true,
    "peer-socket-tos": 0,
    "pex-enabled": true,
    "port-forwarding-enabled": false,
    "preallocation": 1,
    "proxy": "",
    "proxy-auth-enabled": false,
    "proxy-auth-password": "",
    "proxy-auth-username": "",
    "proxy-enabled": false,
    "proxy-port": 80,
    "proxy-type": 0,
    "ratio-limit": 0.2500,
    "ratio-limit-enabled": true,
    "rename-partial-files": true,
    "rpc-authentication-required": true,
    "rpc-bind-address": "0.0.0.0",
    "rpc-enabled": true,
    "rpc-password": "{81ed8acf066233eabf1621d75adc85f0a3faa20b8021nMli",
    "rpc-port": 9091,
    "rpc-username": "daevu",
    "rpc-whitelist": "127.0.0.1,192.168.*.*",
    "rpc-whitelist-enabled": true,
    "script-torrent-done-enabled": false,
    "script-torrent-done-filename": "",
    "speed-limit-down": 100,
    "speed-limit-down-enabled": false,
    "speed-limit-up": 5,
    "speed-limit-up-enabled": true,
    "start-added-torrents": true,
    "trash-original-torrent-files": false,
    "umask": 18,
    "upload-limit": 100,
    "upload-limit-enabled": 0,
    "upload-slots-per-torrent": 14,
    "watch-dir": "/home/daevu/torrents/",
    "watch-dir-enabled": true
}
 



• Postfix :with  gmail relying according to http://ubuntu-tutorials.com/2008/11/11/relaying-postfix-smtp-via-smtpgmailcom/ 

•  JdDownloader: first install vncserver:

• apt-get install -y vnc4server xinetd

  run vnc4passwd (enter desired pwd

  to run vncserver on startup: add this lieno to /etc/rc.local just before exit =

  • su "myusername" -c 'vnc4server :1 -geometry 1024x768 '

• Install JAVA (since transmission works not with OpenJDK) 

  sudo add-apt-repository “deb http://archive.canonical.com/ lucid partner”

  sudo apt-get update 

  sudo apt-get install sun-java6-bin sun-java6-jre sun-java6-jdk sun-java6-plugin 

• Download transmission over VNC

  $wget -c http://212.117.163.148/jd.sh

  After download let's make it executable and run it :

  $chmod +x jd.sh
$./jd.sh

  
  
  
  

• INSTALL WLAN Chipset (ZyDas1211) (Follow  http://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/WLAN/wpa_supplicant
   
• To get MAC Address:
•  ifconfig -a
• to initially start it
• sudo ifconfig wlan0 up

• Edit /etc/initd.interfaces so it will start from boot  (comment out eth0)

##WLAN
auto wlan0
iface wlan0 inet static
address "your desired IP"
netmask 255.255.255.0
broadcast 192.168.1.255
gateway 192.168.1.1
wpa-ssid "mynetwork"
wpa-psk "mypassphrase"
wpa-proto RSN
wpa-key_mgmt WPA-PSK
wpa-pairwise CCMP
wpa-group TKIP

 
 

TO DO

• move torrent after finish: http://1000umbrellas.com/2010/04/28/how-to-automatically-move-and-remove-transmission-daemon-downloads does not work
• TOR & privoxy
• BAckup Pics and docs on the machine

transmission torretn client 2.0 on karmic

according to http://www.techdrivein.com/2010/06/install-new-improved-transmission-20-in.html

JDOWNLOADER - Rapidshare on the headless machine

Since torrents are getting scarce on the net, rapidshare seems to be an option

Install

sudo apt-get install sun-java6-bin sun-java6-jre sun-java6-jdk sun-java6-plugin fluxbox tightvncserver

Setting up vnc server 

vncpasswd

vncserver

Connect with VncClient, like tightvnc (according to the port and pwd selected above)


in the vnc Window (X server needed) install jdwonloader


with

$wget -c http://212.117.163.148/jd.sh

After download let's make it executable and run it :

$chmod +x jd.sh
$./jd.sh

Since my headless machine has only 128MB RAM , Jdownloader crashes after 5hours or so. Therefore I kill the java PID and restart it using cron (Assuming there is a vnc session on display1 and I configured JDownloader to automatically restart the app on startup)

7 0,6,12,18 * * * killall java >/dev/null 2>&1; export DISPLAY=:1 ;/usr/bin/java -Xmx512m -jar .jd/JDownloader.jar >/dev/null 2>&1

or even better: start the beast lke this in a vncserver bash

  while true; do killall java; java -Xmx1024m -jar /home/daevu/.jd/JDownloader.jar; sleep 21000; done

Reference:

http://service.jdownloader.net/old/wiki.jdownloader.org/indexd69d.html?title=Running_On_A_Headless_Linux_Server
and
http://www.skullbox.net/vncserver.php
and
http://www.ubuntu-inside.me/2009/02/jdownloader-ultimate-freepremium.html