"possum cam testing" (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0) by leogaggl One common task for my Raspberry Pi Zero with (infrared) Camera is to do still image capture in regular intervals and upload the images for storage and post-processing. A simple way to achieve this with standard software tools available in the Raspberry Pi OS repositories is to use the S3 CLI tools and a simple bash script run by a scheduled cron job. Install S3CMD tools on RaspberryPi sudo apt install python3-pip sudo pip3 install s3cmd Configure Linode Raspberry Pi AWS-CLI s3cmd --configure The values:

The Siemens IoT2000 series has been a very interesting development from Siemens and it’s really encouraging to see the use of Open Source in the Automation sector definitely on the increase. And that can only be a good thing for developer productivity. Seeing a different IDE for each manufacturer of a PLC invokes some nasty memories of last century web-application development… Download existing image The image can be downloaded from the Siemens support site (if you don’t have an account with Siemens you might have to sign up for a login first.

Turns out that working with PLC equipment you are still fully stuck to Windows. Which means I have to bite the bullet and get an up to date version of a Windows VM running on my machine. Since I have already paid for my Windows license with my laptop (even though I have never used it) this came in really handy. <pre class="wp-block-preformatted">sudo apt install acpica-tools sudo acpidump -n MSDM This command should dump the Windows key in the bottom right of the output.