Announcing PiCockpit Pro

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PiCockpit Pro: Today we are releasing PiCockpit Pro and PiCockpit Pro Plus, upgraded versions of our classic web interface to control your Raspberry Pi computers. PiCockpit Pro caters to businesses and advanced users looking for greater control over their Raspberry Pi fleet. Over the past five years, we have served over 10,000 users, and now,…

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MQTT issues – [Solved]

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At the moment, we’re still in the process of getting some bugs with PiCockpit taken care of. Specifically, we’re managing problems with getting MQTT up and running smoothly. Today it was down for a period of time, but we’ve now fixed MQTT and it should be working without any issues. If you’re interested in learning…

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MQTT disconnected – [Solved]

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Today, I finalized an important update for our reverse proxy, which handles connections from your web browsers and Raspberry Pis, and forwards them to the right PiCockpit software services on our server. The update seemed smooth – picockpit.com loaded as usual. Unfortunately, MQTT would not come up as connected. In various attempts, I have managed…

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Paragon Project: A Raspberry Pi Garden

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Do you want to be able to water your garden remotely? Then this is the project for you! It’s an entire irrigation platform that you can control with your phone, tablet, or laptop! Using a Raspberry Pi, your garden comes wholly under your control. This one comes from Dan-in-CA on GitHub. You can find the…

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An Overview of MQTT

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In the ever-evolving landscape of Internet of Things (IoT) and real-time communication protocols, MQTT has emerged as a powerful and versatile solution. MQTT, which used to be an acronym for Message Queue Telemetry Transport (more on that below), is a lightweight and efficient messaging protocol designed for resource-constrained devices and unreliable networks. So in this…

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PiCockpit MQTT currently offline (31.10.2022)

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While rebooting our server, the MQTT container has started to experience issues – we are investigating, unfortunately we currently have an unscheduled down-time. The Raspberry Pi Reservation tool is not affected by this. We will update this blog post once the issue is resolved. We apologize for the inconvenience! Update 1.11.2022: problem is solved! The…

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