Accessing your files at home from your office

Assume you are at work and you would like to access your files at home in a secure way. There are many ways to accomplish this, for example by remote desktop. In this article I will unveil another approach namely via SSH (Secure SHell) and mounting your remote home-directory at your computer at work. Example… Continue reading Accessing your files at home from your office

Raspberry Pi: Controlling your wall sockets

In this post I will describe 2 methods to operate “remote controlled sockets” via the Raspberry Pi. The methods differ in the used software. Both methods use C as development language and compile to native Raspberry Pi code (ELF 32-bit LSB executable, ARM, EABI5 version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked). The prerequisites and wiring are the… Continue reading Raspberry Pi: Controlling your wall sockets

Dynamic public IP-address / Call – Home

Assume you do have a computer connected to the Internet which obtains it’s public IP-address dynamicly. Some providers like 1und1 in Germany require that the xDSL line is reset every day at least one time. At that moment you obtain a new IP-address from a pool of addresses. Privacy This dynamic IP-address is great if… Continue reading Dynamic public IP-address / Call – Home