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Docker Tips & Tricks

How to Check if Docker is Working ?

docker run hello-world

This would print out

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Raspberry Pi InfluxDB: The solution for IoT Data storage

Raspberry Pi is costeffect linux computer very commonly used for IoT home automation projects.

Here are the 3 problems with conventional databases for IoT data store applications:

• Too much or complex configuration
• Unable to expire data / set retentional policies
• Not tailor made of Time Series Data

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#!/bin/bash

# Checks all the Packages
#pip freeze --local | grep -v '^\-e' | cut -d = -f 1  | xargs -n1 pip install -U

# Checks only outdated packages
pip list --outdated --format=freeze | grep -v '^\-e' | cut -d = -f 1  | xargs -n1 pip install -U

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#!/bin/sh
###################
### Cloud9 Golang Configuration
###  by boseji
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### Version 0.0 - Initial Release
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###################

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[color]
	diff = auto
	status = auto
	branch = auto
	interactive = auto
	ui = auto
[color "branch"]
	current = green bold
	local = green
	remote = red bold

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#!/bin/sh

# This script adds a menu item, icons and mime type for Arduino for the current
# user. If possible, it will use the xdg-utils - or fall back to just creating
# and copying a desktop file to the user's dir.
# If called with the "-u" option, it will undo the changes.

# Resource name to use (including vendor prefix)
RESOURCE_NAME=arduino.arduinoide

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VM Configuration for NAT Local - DO NOT USE

We would be using a Windows PC with Virtual Box installed.

Also make sure that you have the latest Virtual Box extentions installed!

Adding a Local NAT network

First we need to add a Virtual Box NAT network for the given PC.

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MQTT using mosquitto Broker

MQTT is the protocol of choice for M2M and IoT Applications.

Mosquitto is an open source iot.eclipse.org project. It implements the MQTT protocol versions 3.1 and 3.1.1. For more details please refer to http://mosquitto.org/.

We would look at setting up the broker both on Raspberry Pi and an Ubuntu VM on PC.

Though some special configuration is needed to begin with using the VM.

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Securing you Linux Computer (Raspberry Pi)

This was inspired by the concise works of jeff's Skinner Box

Primary Article to begin with:

HowTo: Set-Up the Raspberry Pi as a Headless Device

Lets make sure that we have all the sheilds up!

Protect your Network

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#!/bin/bash
# Raspberry Pi Mosquito Install Script

sudo wget http://repo.mosquitto.org/debian/mosquitto-repo.gpg.key
sudo apt-key add mosquitto-repo.gpg.key
cd /etc/apt/sources.list.d/
sudo wget http://repo.mosquitto.org/debian/mosquitto-jessie.list
cd
sudo apt-get update
rm mosquitto-repo.gpg.key