Ben Galaviz

PI MusicBox OpenVPN

So I needed the ability to have my Pi MusicBox, from my previous post, use OpenVPN to talk to the internet without restrictions. This is what I had to do to make it work.

This is not a post on how to setup an OpenVPN server. I assume you already know how to do this.

Install openvpn and resolvconf on the PI MusicBox.
```
sudo apt-get install openvpn resolvconf
```

Create PIMusicBox.conf client openvpn config file. Make sure it goes into /etc/openvpn folder.
- At the bottom of the PIMusicBox.conf file you need to add the following lines
  - ```
  up /etc/openvpn/update-resolv-conf
  down /etc/openvpn/update-resolv-conf
```
- Link the auto-generated resolv.conf to the existing resolv.conf
  - ```
  cp /etc/resolv.conf /etc/resolv.conf.orig
  rm -f /etc/resolv.conf
  ln -s /etc/resolvconf/run/resolv.conf /etc/resolv.conf
```

Setup openvpn to start on reboot.

Edit /etc/default/openvpn file
- Change the line that starts with
  - ```
  #AUTOSTART="all"
```
- to
- ```
AUTOSTART="all"
```
  - Just remove the # sign from the beginning of that line.
- Change the line that starts with
  - ```
  OPTARGS=""
```
- to
- ```
OPTARGS="--script-security 2"
```

From here you should be able to reboot the system and openvpn will startup automagically.

MyAmp RaspberryPi MusicBox

So this is going to be a writeup on how I put a RaspberryPi 2 inside a MyAmp portable speaker.

I’ve had this amp for about a year now and have not really used it that much. It has been sitting on my desk at work collecting dust. So I started thinking that I could get better use out of it by Continue reading “MyAmp RaspberryPi MusicBox”