When buying my house we went during the visit also to the basement. At this place the so called Mercedes of the house was installed: The Vitola 200 oil-fired heating/boiler controlled by the Vitotronic 200 type KW2 produced by the firm Viessmann. Installation and material was about 6000 euro when checking the invoice. Maybe this… Continue reading Home automation: Controlling your heating remotely
Android: Questions and Answers
In this article several issues related to Android will be discussed. The format will be in a question and answer based manner. For more generic questions, please check the article: Miscellaneous Questions and Answers Read also this special article which is dedicated to using ADB wirelessly via Wi-Fi. Question: How can I make… Continue reading Android: Questions and Answers
Raspberry Pi: Cross compile HelloWorld
In this tutorial you will learn the basics how to cross compile a simple program for the Raspberry Pi 2 Model B. Why would you like to cross compile? The two major reasons why you would like to cross compile are: Increasing speed of compilation Decreasing wear out of SD card Besides of that the… Continue reading Raspberry Pi: Cross compile HelloWorld
Connecting to remote SSH-server from within company firewalled network
Problem 1: Often company firewalls/web proxies only allow outgoing traffic to HTTP and HTTPS ports, but you also would like to connect to a remote SSH-server. A trick is to start the remote SSH-server at the port which is normally reserved for HTTPS-traffic. Most of the time it is in this way possible to connect… Continue reading Connecting to remote SSH-server from within company firewalled network