The Pogoplug has a LED on the front of the device, which the stock Pogoplug software uses to signify it’s connection status to the Pogoplug service. This post details how to control the colour of the LED! A reader of this blog, Rick D, left a comment on one of my blog posts a few […]
…and syncing photos with PhotoSync. I’ve used the excellent PhotoSync app on my iPhone and iPad to backup photos to my iMac. This works well, but requires me powering the iMac on to run the sync. As my Pogoplug is always on, and has a bunch of storage connected to it, I thought it would […]
I’ve had many requests to support customising the newer (v4) Pogoplugs. Unfortunately I don’t own a v4 Pogoplug so could not create instructions for this device. However, I have since worked through the issue (over email) with a v4 Pogoplug owner after they got in touch via my contact form. I’ve updated my original Pogoplug […]
If you have setup Transmission on your Pogoplug using my previous post, then this post will allow you to remotely (via my.pogoplug.com) add new torrent files and start them downloading to your home server. Why? I’ve been looking for a secure way to add Torrents to my Transmission server running on my Pogoplug, from a remote […]
The Pogoplug can be turned into a dedicated Samba server by following the steps below. 1. PREREQUISITES As a prerequisite of this article, please complete the steps described in my previous post here in order to prepare your Pogoplug so you can install packages using the IPKG package management system. 2. INSTALLING THE SAMBA PACKAGE To install the Samba […]
The Pogoplug can be turned into a dedicated BitTorrent client by following the steps below. 1. PREREQUISITES As a prerequisite of this article, please complete the steps described in my previous post here in order to prepare your Pogoplug so you can install packages using the IPKG package management system. 2. INSTALLING THE BITTORRENT PACKAGE […]