An Uptime Kuma Raspberry Pi setup gives you a free, self-hosted monitoring dashboard and status page that watches your sites, services, and home lab and alerts you the moment something goes down. It is a single lightweight container that idles around 80MB of RAM, so even a Pi 3 handles it, and it monitors HTTP,…
Raspberry Pi Connect is a free, official service that gives you remote access to your Pi’s desktop and terminal from any web browser, with nothing to install on the device you connect from and no ports to open on your router. You install one package, sign in with a free Raspberry Pi ID, and reach…
An *arr stack Raspberry Pi build turns a Pi 5 into an automated media library: Prowlarr manages your indexers, Sonarr handles TV, Radarr handles movies, a download client fetches the files, and Jellyseerr gives you a clean request page in front of it all. On a Raspberry Pi 5 it runs comfortably in Docker and…
Ollama on a Raspberry Pi 5 runs small language models entirely on the board, with no cloud and no API keys. You install it with one command, pull a model like Gemma 3 1B, and chat from the terminal. Add Open WebUI in a Docker container and you get a private, ChatGPT-style browser interface pointed…
The Raspberry Pi AI HAT+ 2 puts a Hailo-10H accelerator and 8GB of dedicated on-board RAM on a Raspberry Pi 5, delivering 40 TOPS and, for the first time on an official Pi accelerator, enough memory to run small large language models on-device. It mounts on the Pi 5’s PCIe interface, is auto-detected on an…
The Raspberry Pi Trixie changes worth knowing fall into two buckets: the visible refresh (a new Control Centre, a new font and theme, kernel 6.12) and the changes that can break a working setup (the desktop moving fully to the labwc Wayland compositor, Python jumping to the 3.13 series, the APT sources moving to the…
Raspberry Pi OS Trixie is the current release, rebased on Debian 13. Raspberry Pi recommends one path above all others: back up your data, then flash a clean Trixie image with Raspberry Pi Imager. An in-place upgrade from Bookworm works, but it is unsupported and can fail in ways that are hard to predict, so…
The Five-Minute Fix That Keeps Swap Off Your SD Card Setting up zram on Raspberry Pi is the fastest single change you can make to reduce SD card wear and improve system stability under memory pressure. It takes about five minutes, survives reboots, and works on every Pi model from the Zero 2 W to…
The Single Best Thing You Can Do for Long-Term Reliability Booting your Raspberry Pi from a USB SSD is the most effective single step you can take to eliminate SD card corruption. Spoiler alert: it is not that complicated, but the steps differ enough between Pi models that doing it wrong wastes an afternoon. This…