How Storj farming monitoring made me optimize my RPI3 setup?

In the last couple of weeks, I wrote 2 articles about the Storj.io project : Build your own Storj.io farming node with Raspberry and Meccano Real time monitoring for your Storj farming nodes with Grafana, Influxdb and Collectd The first explains how to build a farming node with a Raspberry PI and the second how …

Real time monitoring for your Storj farming nodes with Grafana, Influxdb and Collectd

A couple of weeks ago, I put online three Storj farming nodes. Two of them are hosted on my OVH dedicated servers and I even built my own node with Meccano, a Raspberry PI and four old used hard drives. After putting them online, I found myself connecting every day on those three different machines …

Build your own Storj.io farming node with Raspberry and Meccano

EDIT 04-30-2017 After a chat with the community, it seems that running 4 nodes at the same time on a RPI3 is not efficient on uploads peaks. That’s why I updated my setup to use a union filesystem and make storj-daemon see my 4 hard drives as only one. See the setup below… What is …

My garage door is accessible through a REST API

First of all, let me confess, the title is a bit sensationalist. A REST API? Yeah that’s quite exaggerated. But yes, I now can send a PUT request to a super mega secret URL from my smartphone and see my building garage door opening almost magically. Still quite cool, uh? A few words about the …