Mounting samba share on Ubuntu 20.04

I recently had to mount a samba share on Ubuntu 20.04 server on a Raspberry Pi 4, and found that piecing things together from examples was a bit of a pain Installing the required packages Installing the required packages is easy, as they are available in the default installed repositories in Ubuntu and most other Linux distributions sudo apt install smbclient cifs-utils Editing fstab To automatically mount the share on boot, the following line must be added to the end of /etc/fstab, with placeholders replaced:...

February 16, 2022

Pi Zero Plant Humidifier

I have some plants (philodendrons) that are a bit demanding about humidity, and I want to make sure they don’t dry out and have ample humidity to grow optimally. To solve this, I considered a number of solutions, including finding some ZigBee capable humidifier that I could control with Home Assistant. I didn’t find anything like that and even if such a product existed, it would probably be prohibitively expensive because it’s for a niche of niche....

January 21, 2022