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      Equipment Below you can view all of the equipment we used for running AdGuard Home on the Raspberry Pi. Recommended Raspberry Pi Micro SD Card (8GB+) Network Connection Optional Raspberry Pi Case USB Keyboard USB Mouse We tested this tutorial on a Pi 400 running the latest version of Raspberry Pi OS Buster. Installing AdGuard Home to your Raspberry Pi This section will show you how to install the AdGuard home software to your Raspberry Pi. This is a relatively simple process as we can download the compiled version of the ad blocker directly from their website. Before beginning, we highly recommend that you set up your Raspberry Pi with a static IP address. As AdGuard Home works by acting as a DNS server, it must retain the same IP address every time it reboots. 1. Our first step is to update and upgrade our operating system. We can update the package list and upgrade all of the installed packages using the following two commands. sudo apt update sudo apt ful...

        On this project, we will be showing you how to set up your Raspberry Pi as an AirPrint server.  AirPrint is a printing protocol designed by Apple so that their devices would not need to download or install drivers. By following this guide, you will be able to add AirPrint functionality to any printer that is connected to your Raspberry Pi. This project is an excellent way of adding extra functionality to both cheap and old printers. Implementing AirPrint support will allow you to print from your Apple device to your connected printer easily. Before following this project, you will need to have first set up the CUPS software on your device. Cups is what will act as the brains of your AirPrint server on your Raspberry Pi. It will handle the communication between your Raspberry Pi and the connected printer.   Equipment List Below are the pieces of equipment that you will need for this tutorial on installing AirPrint on your Raspberry Pi. Recomme...

How to use your Raspberry Pi to monitor broadband speed Step 1: Check for updates As usual, let’s start with checking for the latest updates. Run the following commands in Terminal: sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade Step 2: Install speedtest-cli There are various methods to measure the speed of broadband connection. We’re going to use speedtest-cli , which, in the words of its creator, is “a command line interface for testing internet bandwidth using speedtest.net.” speedtest-cli isn’t available right away from the Raspbian archives, but we can install it from the Python Package Index (PyPI). That’s easy to do so by using a tool called pip that comes preinstalled on Raspbian Jessie and Stretch. You can make sure that you have pip by running this command: sudo apt-get install python-pip If you a message that reads “python-pip is already the newest version,” that means that we’re good to go. Next, let’s use pip to install speedtest-cli: sudo pip install speedtest-cli...

    In this Raspberry Pi Fail2ban tutorial, we will be showing you how to set up and configure the Fail2ban software on your Raspberry Pi. Fail2ban is a crucial piece of software when it comes to improving the security of your Raspberry Pi. It is especially useful if you have your Raspberry Pi publicly accessible via the internet as it is an active and learning form of defense. For those who do not know what Fail2ban is , it is a piece of software that attempts to block malicious connections to your device, which in our case is our Raspberry Pi. It is important if you have SSH or even a web server that is publicly accessible. Fail2ban works by continually scanning your log files and looking for signs of potential attacks. These include attacks such as too many password failures as well as scanning for exploits and much more. Once it finds unusual activity it then automatically updates your firewall to ban that IP address. Equipment You will need the following eq...