Monthly Archives: March 2017

Syncing images from android smartphone to raspberry pi

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I was looking for a solution to backup the photos taken with my smartphone to our raspberry pi. Android side I searched for synchronization apps and ended up using rsync as backup tool. Therefore I installed the app ‘Rsync Wrapper‘ on my smartphone and configured it with the following parameters: Source: /storage/9C33-6BBD/DCIM/Camera/ Destination: martin@192.168.2.106:~/photos/handy-samsung-s7/ Option: -r –ignore-existing –progress -e “ssh -l martin -i /data/user/0/net.letscorp.rsyncwrapper/files/06a73f67-6234-40e7-81de-7add8fa4c783.key -y” I removed the –verbose parameter and added the –ignore-existing parameter. The –ignore-existing parameter was added by me because the synchronization took up to twenty minutes where the most of the time was used to check which files are […]

Complete rack mounted and painted.

Pickup Rack

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This weekend I build a rack for our pickup truck which reaches over the complete cab to the beginning of the windshield. At the beginning I was concerned about the long overhang because we own a 2007 Dodge Ram Megacab but it turned out that my concerns have been unneeded. On the picture above you can see a styrofoam roll I installed to avoid damage if the rack is hitting the roof of the cab. Luckily there is no contact after the first hundred miles. The rack is made out of 25 millimeters square tube with 1.5 millimeters thick walls. I need approximately […]

2017 Cultivation plan

2017 Cultivation plan for our raised bed

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This week we prepared our raised bed for the 2017 season. In the first step we removed the old strawberry plants. We kept the chive some of the branches of the strawberries which they produced last year. Everything from the last year can be seen in the picture on the left side (areas one and four). The new planted two, three and five are planted with loose leaf lettuce (two), Wasabi Arugula (three) and Rainbow Carrots Purple Sun (five). Between the five areas we planted radish to create a visible separation between the five areas. I created the cultivation plan with LibreOffice Draw. Cultivation […]

Install OpenAndroMaps on OruxMaps via PC

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I tried to install maps from OpenAndroMaps on OruxMaps on my SmartPhone (Samsung Galaxy S7). At first I tried the recommended way on the website of OpenAndroMaps and used the direct download and installation via my smart phone. I selected the “Install on Oruxmaps” option and the download started but it seemed that my phone could not unzip the downloaded archive within one day (8 hours). So I downloaded the map-file (zip) to my pc and unpacked it there which results in a file called Germany.map which is approximately 2.7GB big. I copied the map-file to my phone connected to my pc via […]