Raspberry-Pi

FreeBSD 14.4 on Raspberry Pi Zero 2W

       698 words, 4 minutes

Not convinced lately with OpenBSD on this board , I went searching for another BSD OS to run on the Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W. According to the documentation, FreeBSD should do fine. Let’s have a look.

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OpenBSD 7.8 on Raspberry Pi Zero 2W

       477 words, 3 minutes

A few years ago, I ran OpenBSD 7.4 on a Raspberry Pi Zero 2W . It was working quite nice as a DHCP and DNS server. But it froze too often for my linkings and I stopped using it. These days, that particular board is still not referenced on the official OpenBSD arm64 supported hardware list. Still, I gave it a try on OpenBSD 7.8.

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Running OpenBSD on Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W

       781 words, 4 minutes

I had that Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W lying in a box. And because I changed my network configuration, I decided I could use that Pi as a DNS et DHCP server. But I also wanted to take benefits from my POE switch. It turns out to be really simple, with the proper hardware. Here are the notes.

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Raspberry Pi 4 doing domotics

       1495 words, 8 minutes

I already run Domoticz using a Synology package and a couple of docker containers. But this is complicated to maintain. And the Syno App doesn’t seem to be updated frequently. Not being said the management of the USB sticks is quite random. So I decided to get myself a Raspberry Pi 4 and run everything from there.

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Running OpenBSD on Raspberry Pi 3

       1945 words, 10 minutes

Step 1 was getting my hands on Raspbian. Step 2 was running OpenBSD on the Raspberry Pi 3 Model B. I had quite a few try & fails but it booted, installed and ran properly in the end. Full story follows.

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