In my last post I talked about RetroPie and the build it is based off of. I would like to continue with the discussion about unknown devices on a network. This situation isn’t unique to just the RetroPie, as we see the mass proliferation of IoT devices. Aside from all of the mobile devices, such as phones and tables, there is an increase number of “smart” devices that connect to the network wirelessly. Google, Amazon, and Apple are just a…
Peter Carcione made a youtube clip last year about Game Wizard’s adaptation of RetroPie, a game console emulator that plays video games from the early days of gaming. It runs on a Raspberry Pi and provides an all inclusive interface to run the various console platforms. He provides a step by step that still works as of this writing, you can find it here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=759AWWchIdE One of the things that I noticed was that the distro that RetroPie ran on…
This post is a continuation from my last post that covered network management. I’ll be showing how to use a managed network switch to identify and control the devices that connect on a network. These devices need a way to connect to each other and it is the switch that provides that physical connection. Wireless devices may seem like they are outside this realm, but they too connect to a switch through their access point. Network managed switches offer a…