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Title: September PLUG Meeting rescheduled
Post by: cod3poet on September 01, 2019, 07:21:42 PM
September PLUG Meeting rescheduled

Due to requests and the long weekend the first meeting of the season is getting pushed to September 16th.

Apologies for the short notice but I hope this message reaches everyone!

As for the upcoming meeting it was suggested we gather our Pi's. I know for a fact I want to trot out my Xeon workstation to give you folks a peek.

I'll post again closer to next weeks date with further details!
Title: Re: September PLUG Meeting rescheduled
Post by: Jason on September 04, 2019, 07:46:49 AM
I could demonstrate how to use VNC to login to a Linux computer remotely. I can show it using my laptop to login to the Pi.
Title: Re: September PLUG Meeting rescheduled
Post by: fox on September 04, 2019, 09:15:29 AM
I'm definitely interested in that.
Title: Re: September PLUG Meeting rescheduled
Post by: cod3poet on September 04, 2019, 10:50:44 AM
Just on the phone with Applewood now, this coming Monday is booked so I'll see what else we can setup.
Title: Re: September PLUG Meeting rescheduled
Post by: cod3poet on September 04, 2019, 01:24:49 PM
Amanda will be off at Income security group tonight, then I have a hospital visit to make (NEW BABY FOR A FRIEND!) and maybe after I can swing by Timmies for a coffee. Busy week this week building out a new server deployment in Chicago. (remotely) lots of new toys for the end of 2019.
Title: Re: September PLUG Meeting rescheduled
Post by: ssfc72 on September 04, 2019, 02:18:37 PM
Brian, the notice of the Sept PLUG meeting, on the main PLUG web page, needs to be updated to show that there will not be a meeting, at the Applewood retirement location, on Monday Sept 9.

regards
Title: Re: September PLUG Meeting rescheduled
Post by: cod3poet on September 05, 2019, 02:25:41 PM
The first meeting of the season is getting pushed to September 16th. Due to the room already being booked for the 9th.
Title: Re: September PLUG Meeting rescheduled
Post by: Glen-VE3LIZ on September 05, 2019, 03:11:43 PM
Hi Guys.  Have been following the posts of the meeting schedule and keeping the folks here informed.  Since it will be partly a Pi night, I will bring some pis and odroids for you to have a peek at.
16th is ok here.  Glen, VE3LIZ
Title: Re: September PLUG Meeting rescheduled
Post by: cod3poet on September 05, 2019, 08:50:00 PM
It will be fantastic to see you again Glen! And of course coming in with toys helps.
Title: Re: September PLUG Meeting rescheduled
Post by: fox on September 07, 2019, 04:11:20 PM
I have FINALLY used my Pi to set up a home server; first time I've ever had one on any device. I'm using BerryBoot, and I have OpenMediaVault running in it. I have been spending the afternoon on the settings after watching several videos on how to do this. I still have some questions, so I'm hoping to demo what I've done at the meeting and get feedback from our more tech-savvy members.
Title: Re: September PLUG Meeting rescheduled
Post by: Jason on September 07, 2019, 04:30:34 PM
I'd be interested in that especially since that's what I want to do. Are you using it with a regular drive - either HDD or SDD?
Title: Re: September PLUG Meeting rescheduled
Post by: cod3poet on September 07, 2019, 06:01:56 PM
Debian based I see good enough I should be able to assist if needed. Looks interesting!
Title: Re: September PLUG Meeting rescheduled
Post by: fox on September 07, 2019, 06:03:45 PM
Quote from: Jason Wallwork on September 07, 2019, 04:30:34 PM
I'd be interested in that especially since that's what I want to do. Are you using it with a regular drive - either HDD or SDD?
Just a USB stick; same one I'm using to hold my media for LibreElec. I don't think it's any more difficult to do this with an HDD or SSD, but with the former, it would require an external power source (and I don't mean the pi itself).

I'm still on it. I think I have successfully set it up as wifi, but not sure. Will we have ethernet in Applewood?
Title: Re: September PLUG Meeting rescheduled
Post by: fox on September 07, 2019, 09:37:57 PM
Well I'm going to need Brian's help. I got OMV set up on wifi, or thought I did. My house computers can see the Pi, but now they can't access the contents of the shared folders. I was getting errors during the set-up, but I couldn't fix them.
Title: Re: September PLUG Meeting rescheduled
Post by: cod3poet on September 16, 2019, 02:06:02 PM
This is still on, I look forward to seeing you tonight!
Title: Re: September PLUG Meeting rescheduled
Post by: fox on September 17, 2019, 12:09:18 AM
Good meeting! Once I learned that enabling wifi in OpenMediaVault causes problems, I was able to re-create all the steps I took after reinstalling OpenMediaVault on BerryBoot. Took about 1/2 hour. I can confirm that it works, and I can now see my shared files and folders on a computer on the same network. Thanks, Brian.
Title: Re: September PLUG Meeting rescheduled
Post by: ssfc72 on September 20, 2019, 01:00:39 AM
Maybe you could show us the use of VNC, at the October meeting, Jason?

Quote from: Jason Wallwork on September 04, 2019, 07:46:49 AM
I could demonstrate how to use VNC to login to a Linux computer remotely. I can show it using my laptop to login to the Pi.
Title: Re: September PLUG Meeting rescheduled
Post by: Jason on September 20, 2019, 11:55:02 PM
I could. I think you and Fox were both interested in VNC so perhaps others are, too. It wouldn't be a long presentation - it's really pretty simple.