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Once again this blog has been a bit neglected. So far I had been blogging with an iOS Shortcut workflow, but it somehow stopped working. I adjusted the process again — technically it worked, but it wasn’t very practical. I briefly googled how others had solved the problem and came across Post from Rosemary Orchard. This workflow uses the stdin input option of the Run Script Over SSH action — in simple terms, it lets you pass input to that action as well as use variables as input in the script section. – Rosemary Orchard von 27. August 2018 ...

After doing some research, I couldn’t find any reason not to automatically update your Raspberry Pi and the services Pi-Hole and Homebridge. That increases security, and you also don’t have to log into the system repeatedly and can effectively disable SSH. I wrote the following script and have it run once a day via Cron. Maybe someone else can use this. echo "####### UPDATE DES SYSTEMS #######" sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade -y sudo apt-get autoremove -y sudo apt-get dist-upgrade -y sudo apt-get autoclean echo "####### UPDATE VON PI-HOLE #######" pihole -up pihole updateGravity You’ll need to adapt the Homebridge part to your plugins. ...

I’m by no means a Bash pro and feel like I have to look up every third command. When it comes to access permissions on Unix systems, I also keep forgetting the right command. The tool Chmod Calculator helps me here — I had to use it in my last Raspberry project. Good tools need to be self-explanatory, and that’s true for the Chmod Calculator. Just click together what you need and paste the command it spits out into the terminal. ...

I’m often asked how to disable the spam filter in Google Mail. It seems this “trick” isn’t yet widely known, so no worries — I’m happy to share how to bypass the filter. Personally, I sometimes found Google’s spam filter a bit too aggressive. Important emails occasionally ended up in the spam folder, which caused confusion. Instead of accepting that, there is actually a small “trick” to bypass the filter and regain full control over our emails. ...