Raspberry Pi Administration

Complete system monitoring and introspection for the Raspberry Pi host. Access network details, system resources, storage, services, and more.

When to Use

• Checking Pi network configuration (IP, Tailscale)

• Monitoring system resources (CPU, memory, storage)

• Viewing running services and their status

• Checking temperature and hardware info

• Troubleshooting system issues

• Getting system overview for debugging

Usage

# Information Commands
cd /home/srose/clawd/skills/pi-admin
./skill.sh overview
./skill.sh network
./skill.sh tailscale
./skill.sh resources
./skill.sh storage
./skill.sh services
./skill.sh hardware

# Maintenance Commands
./skill.sh update       # Update system packages
./skill.sh clean        # Clean unused packages, logs, Docker
./skill.sh reboot       # Reboot with countdown
./skill.sh restart-gateway  # Restart the Clawdis Gateway

# Complete system info
./skill.sh all

Tools Available

Examples

# Quick system check
./skill.sh overview

# Debug network issues
./skill.sh network && ./skill.sh tailscale

# Check if Gateway is running
./skill.sh services | grep gateway

# Monitor disk space
./skill.sh storage

Information Collected

Network:

• Hostname

• Local IP addresses (eth0, wlan0)

• Network interface details

• DNS configuration

Tailscale:

• Status (running/stopped)

• Tailscale IP

• Connected peers

• Exit node status

Resources:

• CPU usage

• Memory usage (used/free/total)

• CPU temperature

• Uptime

Storage:

• Disk usage by mount point

• Inode usage

• Free space

Services:

• Gateway service status

• Docker containers

• Systemd services

• Port listeners

Hardware:

• CPU model and cores

• Raspberry Pi model

• GPU memory

• Total RAM

Maintenance Commands

update

Update system packages via apt:

• Updates package lists

• Shows upgradable packages

• Requires confirmation before upgrading

• Reports if reboot is needed

• Dry run: ./skill.sh update --dry-run shows what would be updated

clean

Clean up system to free disk space:

• Removes unused packages (autoremove)

• Clears package cache

• Cleans old journal logs (keeps 7 days)

• Optionally cleans Docker artifacts

• Shows space saved

• Dry run: ./skill.sh clean --dry-run shows what would be cleaned

reboot

Graceful system reboot:

• 10-second countdown

• Ctrl+C to cancel

• Uses systemctl reboot

• Dry run: ./skill.sh reboot --dry-run shows countdown without rebooting

restart-gateway

Restart the Clawdis Gateway service:

• Stops all running gateway processes

• Starts fresh gateway on port 18789

• Confirms port is listening

• Shows access URLs

• Dry run: ./skill.sh restart-gateway --dry-run shows what would happen

optimize

Apply safe system optimizations:

• Disable Bluetooth service (~50MB RAM saved)

• Disable ModemManager (~30MB RAM saved)

• Disable Avahi/Zeroconf (~20MB RAM saved)

• Set swappiness to 10 (better RAM utilization)

• Dry run: ./skill.sh optimize --dry-run shows what would change

• Undo: ./skill.sh optimize --undo reverts all changes

Total RAM savings: ~100MB Reversibility: Yes, use --undo flag to revert

Note: All maintenance commands require sudo and ask for confirmation before making changes. Use --dry-run flag to preview changes without applying them.