This is a steps to customize Raspberry Pi’s boot up screen, specifically to change the splash image and remove unwanted images and texts. By default, Raspbian Jessie Desktop displays below during boot up before starting desktop GUI. (1) Rainbow image (2) Raspberry Pi Logo (image of four raspberries in the top left corner) (3) Boot… Continue reading “Customizing Boot Up Screen on Raspberry Pi”
By default, it’s automatically powered on with Raspberry Pi 3 and Raspbian Jessie on boot. But after I updated Bluez from 5.23 to 5.43, it’s not turning on automatically and I needed to do so manually by using hciconfig or bluetoothctl as below. Powering on manually by hciconfig: $ hciconfig hci0: Type: Primary Bus: USB… Continue reading “Auto Power On Bluetooth Adapter on Boot-up”
Update (Jul 9, 2019): Now, Raspbian Buster, released on 6/20/2019, has bluez 5.50 by default! Update (Feb 14, 2018): If you want to install newer BlueZ on Raspbian Stretch, please see the post below: Updating BlueZ on Raspberry Pi (5.43 to 5.48) Update (Sep 8, 2017): Raspbian Stretch was released on 8/16/2017, and it has BlueZ… Continue reading “Updating BlueZ on Raspberry Pi (5.23 to 5.43)”
Even though your linux has a package management system, sometimes you may need to install a software from source code for some reason. And if you install the software by ‘make install’, you may have a little difficulty later on; You cannot use your package manager to uninstall it. This is where ‘checkinstall’ comes in.… Continue reading “Installing software from source code with ‘checkinstall’”
By enabling SSH, you can access Raspberry Pi remotely. For security, you should change login password If you enable SSH. Here is the steps. 1. Enable SSH 1-1. Launch raspi-config sudo raspi-config 1-2. Select “Interfacing Options”. 1-3. Select “SSH”, and “Yes”. 1-4. Then, exit raspi-config. 2. Change login password for user ‘pi’ 2-1.… Continue reading “Enabling SSH on Raspberry Pi”
