A person looking at a monitor with the Raspberry Pi logo and a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W device in it. There is a camera in the top left pointed at the person.

Step Up Your Home Security Game on the Cheap With A Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W Powered IP Camera Monitor

Not too long ago I set up a few IP cameras around the house. As I work mostly from home, I wanted a non-proprietary and cost effective way to monitor four video feeds at any time while I’m in my study. This blog post details the solution I came up with, which leverages a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W and an old monitor I had lying around. Before blindly following the instructions in this post, please consider the caveats!...

March 23, 2024 · 8 min · Eugene de Beste

Generating Let's Encrypt Wildcard Certificates

With the recent release of Let’s Encrypt’s ACMEv2 protocol implementation, they’ve gained the ability to not only supply SSL certificates for single domains, but also all subdomains. I’ve been interested in switching from our previous CA to Let’s Encrypt when their wildcard support dropped, because it makes renewal of certificates significantly easier due to automation capabilities of the platform. This blog post describes how to generate a wildcard certificate using Certbot....

March 24, 2018 · 3 min · Eugene de Beste