Here's the thing. Over the past five years or six years I have installed the Pi OS on four different machines; two at home and two away. They do lots of stuff for me including
• grabbing, badging and uploading images from a web camera
• encoding 24 hours worth of images into a time-lapse video
• grabbing weather data from Open Weather map which is used to badge the images
• grabbing temperature and humidity data from bluetooth sensors which is also used to badge the images
• checking my dynamic IP address and, if it has changed, upload the new address to my DDNS
• establish remote forwarding between the remote machines and my home machine so that I can still reach them behind a double NAT
• constantly monitor the UPS for battery charge and input voltage and take any necessary action
• And lots more.
So, I do indeed have lots of experience with setting up Linux machines and getting them to do what I want.
But, this enforced manual upgrade to Bookworm is, in my humble opinion, somewhat idiotic. I know the Pi fanboys will defend this and call me stupid for not wanting to do it. Perhaps I am stupid. So far I've spent ten days and perhaps a total of 24 hours trying to move stuff to a newly imaged Bookworm boot disk. I'm less than half way done with one machine with three to go. It has been agonizing, frustrating and absolutely no fun at all. I will not continue.
Here's an example of one of the web cam images taken from the balcony of my condo at Cha Am beach in Thailand:
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Here's a link to one of the time lapse videos:
Cha Am Ocean Time-Lapse Video
• grabbing, badging and uploading images from a web camera
• encoding 24 hours worth of images into a time-lapse video
• grabbing weather data from Open Weather map which is used to badge the images
• grabbing temperature and humidity data from bluetooth sensors which is also used to badge the images
• checking my dynamic IP address and, if it has changed, upload the new address to my DDNS
• establish remote forwarding between the remote machines and my home machine so that I can still reach them behind a double NAT
• constantly monitor the UPS for battery charge and input voltage and take any necessary action
• And lots more.
So, I do indeed have lots of experience with setting up Linux machines and getting them to do what I want.
But, this enforced manual upgrade to Bookworm is, in my humble opinion, somewhat idiotic. I know the Pi fanboys will defend this and call me stupid for not wanting to do it. Perhaps I am stupid. So far I've spent ten days and perhaps a total of 24 hours trying to move stuff to a newly imaged Bookworm boot disk. I'm less than half way done with one machine with three to go. It has been agonizing, frustrating and absolutely no fun at all. I will not continue.
Here's an example of one of the web cam images taken from the balcony of my condo at Cha Am beach in Thailand:
.
Here's a link to one of the time lapse videos:
Cha Am Ocean Time-Lapse Video
Statistics: Posted by Ratsima — Sat Nov 09, 2024 10:42 am