fping gives you more options than standard old ping sudo apt-get install fping The options are details here. Example – Single ping with a not too long timeout: fping -c1 -t750 www.google.com
Category: Software and Utilities
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Performance Monitoring
NMON – Command Line Performance Monitoring Tool To install nmon sudo apt-get install nmon To run nmon nmon Use the keyboard commands to toggle individual sections on and off: 't' = Top-processes 'm' – Memory S 'j' = Filesystems 'd' or 'D' = Disks (capital D shows different measurements) 'n' = Network 'V' = Virtual Memory 'r' = […]
ZIP
Install ZIP sudo apt-get install zip unzip To ZIP A Directory zip zipfile_name /path/to/directory/
Windows Remote Desktop
XRDP can be used to allow a remote desktop connection from a windows PC.Display Resolution Install XRDP from the RPi command line sudo apt-get install xrdp Then to use it press the windows start button > All programs > Accessories > Remote desktop connection. Enter your IP address and then the standard RPi login when prompted and […]
Screen – Duplicates terminal views
Screen is a full-screen window manager that multiplexes a physical terminal between several processes. You can use it to duplicate the same terminal view in different places. Good resources http://www.nixtutor.com/linux/introduction-to-gnu-screen/
WiFi Access Point
Setting up your RPi as a WiFi access point http://learn.adafruit.com/setting-up-a-raspberry-pi-as-a-wifi-access-point/overview Configuring Raspberry Pi 3 WiFi As An Access Point The below is based on this excellent guide here on the Frillips blog: https://frillip.com/using-your-raspberry-pi-3-as-a-wifi-access-point-with-hostapd/You should follow that guide, we’ve just duplicated here for our needs in case it ever vanishes. Installing The Required Packages hostapd Let you […]
Kiosk Mode
How To Create Kiosk Mode https://github.com/MobilityLab/TransitScreen/wiki/Raspberry-Pi Running chromium in kiosk mode http://lokir.wordpress.com/2012/09/16/raspberry-pi-kiosk-mode-with-chromium/
Updating Packages
Use the folloing command to update software which was installed using apt-get: sudo apt-get update
Web Browsers
Chromium An open-source browser on which Google’s Chrome browser is based. Its relatively lightweight memory usage makes Chromium a good choice for the Pi. To install open LX Terminal and type: sudo apt-get install chromium-browser Running chromium in kiosk mode http://lokir.wordpress.com/2012/09/16/raspberry-pi-kiosk-mode-with-chromium/ chromium –kiosk –incognito http://google.com To exit Kiosk mode: ATL+F4 Openening In App Mode No […]
IO Utilities
WebIOPi : control your Pi’s GPIO with a browser http://trouch.com/2012/08/21/webiopi-control-your-pis-gpio-with-a-browser/