Add WiFi to Raspberry Pi and monitor it with RPi-Monitor

Note: A new version of RPi-Monitor is available.

For all details about RPi-Monitor refer to RPi-Monitor Documentation.

For internet connection, it could be interesting to add a WiFi connection to the Raspberry Pi.

Raspberry Pi with WiFi 802.11n dongle

This article is explaining how to configure WiFi  n a Raspberry Pi and how to monitor this new network interface with RPi-Monitor.

RPi-Monitor: Version 2.4 is available

Note: A new version of RPi-Monitor is available: Version 2.5.

All the details about the latest version of Rpi-Monitor are in RPi-Monitor overview

The version 2.4 of RPi-Monitor has been released.

If you don't know yet what RPI-Monitor do, have a look to RPi-Monitor Overview.

Photo from Flickr  by Le Yéti  cc-by-nc

What's new in this version?

Here is the changelog of version 2.4:

• Change shared memory management to fix issue #12 and define the shmkey in configuration file
• Added the possibility to define the default timeline to be display in statistics page
• Add -s (show) option to show configuration as loaded (useful for advanced customization)
• Added WiFi icon
 

RPi-Monitor: Version 2.3 is available

Note: A new version of RPi-Monitor is available: Version 2.4.

All the details about the latest version of Rpi-Monitor are in RPi-Monitor overview

The version 2.3 of RPi-Monitor has been released.

If you don't know yet what RPI-Monitor do, have a look to RPi-Monitor Overview.

Photo from Flickr  cc-by-nc-sa by reidab

What's new in this version?

This version mainly comes with bug fixes and few optimisation.

Here is the changelog of version 2.3:

• Add small improvement given by a feedback in RPi-Experiences blog
• Use javascript to resize correctly shellinabox iframe even in Firefox
• Fix issue #9: Wrong calculation of used memory
• Fix issue #11: adding friends link missing colon
 

A LCD display my RPi and RPi-Monitor

I saw on the internet that it is possible to use a LCD to display information from the Raspberry Pi. RPi-Monitor is gathering a lot of information and it could be interesting to have such an information available without a computer. So I decided to purchase a PCD8544 from dx.com.

Photo from Flickr  cc-by by arduinolabs

This post is describing how to acquire, connect and use such a component with he Raspberry Pi and gives an example showing how to connect it with RPi-Monitor.

RPi-Monitor: Version 2.2 is available

Note: A new version of RPi-Monitor is available: Version 2.3.

All the details about the latest version of Rpi-Monitor are in RPi-Monitor overview

The version 2.2 of RPi-Monitor has been released.

If you don't know yet what RPI-Monitor do, have a look to RPi-Monitor Overview.

Photo from Flickr  cc-by-nc-sa by jacqueline-w

What's new in this version?

This version comes with bug fix, optimization and extends the customization capabilities by adding multiple pages for status and statistics.

Here is the changelog of version 2.2:

• Add the possibility to create multiple status and statistics pages
• Add process respawner to improve reliability of rpimonitord
• Add HTML5 cache for json data to speedup page display and offload RPi
• bug fix: Embedded server won't start on 443 or 80 ports (issue #8)
• bug fix: cleanup code according to comment described in issue #7