During development of our Relay@Home project we created a CPU monitor dashboard using Grafana so that we could evaluate the performance of the Raspberry Pi. This guide shows a modified version of the dashboard that can be setup on any…
This guide will show you how to to update the bootloader on your Raspberry Pi4.If you are using an older Pi then it might have an old bootloader. There were some nice firmware updates in the fall of 2020 to…
Is my Relay@Home Working? When your relay starts up the first thing it does is verify it’s database. It then starts sycronizing the blockchain with all the other relays on the network. If your relay has been powered off for…
What’s in the Box Standard Version Relay@home processor assembled with case Raspberry Pi 4 Broadcom BCM2711, Quad Core Cortex-A72 (ARM v8) 64-bit SoC @ 1.5GHz 4GB LPDDR4-3200 SDRAM 64GB SD card with blockchain Relay software installed Backup 64GB SD card…
Socket Event Forwarder is an Ark.io bridgechain plugin for forwarding real-time blockchain events through socket.io protocol. It is designed to be installed on a relay node. It was developed by Friends of Little Yus member @emsy. We use this plugin…
Many software packages that are standard on the Raspberry Pi OS must be manually installed on Ubuntu 20.10 or 20.04.1 LTS Server. This guide lists various useful utilities. Install raspi-config Navigate to raspi-config on archive.raspberrypi.org. Pick the latest .deb version.…
This guide will show you how to install a Minecraft Server on Raspberry Pi4. Ubuntu 20.10 is used for the operating system however instructions should be similar for Ubuntu 18. This guide uses James Chambers’ excellent resources for easy install…
MQTT Event Forwarder is an Ark.io bridgechain plugin for forwarding real-time blockchain events through MQTT protocol. MQTT is a well know low overhead protocol often used in embedded IoT devices. It is designed to be installed on a relay node.…
