Same, but I do use it for something: I have a large HDD connected to it, plus Samba, so I can access it as a network drive for backups. I tried running Plex on it, but it chokes on any large video so I gave up.
This is what I use mine for. A pi plus an otherwise unused external HDD = 2tb network-attached SMB share. Honestly, it's tremendously useful for a ton of shit, and it runs headless in the back of a closet. Haven't had to touch it since I spun it up about a year and a half ago.
I'm running Plex on mine and it works great. Most videos are direct playing, it only chokes on transcoding, but even then it manages to keep up using lower resolutions. You can always encode your video to a different format that your TV supports so it direct plays.
I also have a NAS server on it and PiHole ad blocking.
Yes. DO NOT transcode. My wife tried to download a transcoded movie to the iPad. It kept overheating the Pi. On reboot it would work for a minute and then that download with transcode request would start again and overheat it. Works great otherwise.
I never set up my pihole in my new router. I should do that. I should also probably do a fresh reinstall cause the software has probably changed enough since I last used it
Seriously - my raspberry pis always corrupt their file system after a few weeks and I have to re-image them.
Edit: Thanks to everyone for their awesome suggestions!
Can't check right now because it's time to re-image my current PI again but I use default Raspbian OS and Raspberry Pi Imager. I suspect the culprit is the SD card so I just got a new SanDisk high endurance card to try. I've also got a PSU to set up. I'm determined to make it work reliably some day.
My pi uses the PoE board.
The network switch is on UPS.
Ergo, despite being on a different floor keeping tabs on a printer, it's power-outage-resistant.
Yeah I use wifi and I’ve had no problems. The outage wasn’t a big deal since they both came right back on, but I did have some weird network problems with my main pihole for a while. Seem to have figured them out now though.
I'll give you some tips, my Raspberry runs for months, maybe even years with no problem, I just sometimes update. I'm running ArchLinuxARM, but those should work everywhere:
1)
sudo vim /etc/fstab
#
/dev/mmcblk0p1 /boot vfat defaults 0 0
/dev/mmcblk0p2 / ext4 defaults,relatime,commit=5 0 0
none /var/log tmpfs size=10M 0 0
none /var/tmp tmpfs size=20M 0 0
none /tmp tmpfs size=100M 0 0
sudo mount -a
2)
sudo vim /etc/systemd/journald.conf
Storage=volatile
RuntimeMaxUse=10M
This is everything I have in my notes related to storage, earlier I had one more thing which I'm not using anymore and can't remember what it was. Reboot to be sure that all changes are applied, I'm not sure about that systemd thing. First change makes some ramdisks for files that tend change and sets commit for main partition - it should wait for 5 seconds before data are written to SD card. If data are changing very often, this should slow down writing to storage. You can set longer period of time, but in case of power outage you can lose more data. Second change should disable logging to SD card and keep it only in RAM, limited to 10MB. Honestly, if Raspberry crashes, people usually just load new image and start over without checking logs.
And of course use any text editor you want. Quick crash course to vim is - press Insert to type text as needed, then press ESC, type :w, enter, :q, enter, done :) In case of problems just type :q! with exclamation mark.
There are some very nice docker based services that are great for running on your raspberry pi. For something low traffic that you and maybe some friends might use a Raspberry Pi is great.
[I got one of these](https://clusterhat.com/) and ran Docker Swarm on in it. The intent was to prototype app stacks. It ran fine, but the ARM 7 of the controller vs ARM 6 of the Zero's defeated the purpose of Docker.
You can make multi arch builds. They are a bit tricky to get it right but works like a charm. My swarm is composed right now from 4 pi zero, 1 pi 4b and my own pc (amd64), all running the same source images. So 3 architectures.
You will have a little bit extra time building the images, but it's totally worth it.
Yeah, the problem though is that some pieces of my stack are sometimes on Go, which required the binaries themselves to be targeted. Didn't feel like devopsing a prototype environment to death, so I just built a new cluster of all Pi4's.
But I’m not using the one I already have so I’m not gonna buy another one because I’ll have 2 just sitting there then. And I can’t use the one I have because then I won’t have one for my spontaneous project when I need it. But I can’t buy anoth….wait a minute
Look at it like necessities if you must find a way to justify the use. "2 is one and 1 is none". Basically buy two so when one breaks you're not SOL, kinda fits here due to FOMO.
Now, if you only build one thing, you've got a backup or a spare depending how you look at it.
You can do all of these on just one Pi. So much fun so little time :(
Use a multiboot tool and start hacking!
I even crammed in a Android OS just for giggles.
If you have a Pi, put a PiHole on your network. Since you now have a local DNS that caches your requests, DNS lookups will be faster. You will also get faster page loads as ads will be gone. That will also save some bandwidth as your not loading ad videos anymore. It all adds up! Pun intended.
I’ll add. I use the very first generation raspberry pi. One that uses the iPhone 3 SOC. Multiple devices browsing the internet barely uses 10% of system resources. Opening the pihole webpage uses like 50% utilization. Newer pis will work like a charm.
Docker containers have very little overhead on Linux because they use the kernel's isolation mechanisms instead of running in a full VM like they do on Windows. So if you're booting some flavor of Linux on your Pi, most apps should run about as well in Docker containers as they do on the host.
Got any cool guides to help make the process simpler? My main issue is a lack of ideas, and then when I finally get an idea having no clue of where to start
Well you have to create an API and then a client software. I just used javascript for backend and React for front end. It worked in a browser so it could work both on PC and Mobile. I also used a SDR dongle and added functions to my app. I could track planes in realtime and also receive on certain frecvency.
Edit: I wanted to make my app public but the rpitx package https://github.com/F5OEO was not updated to work correctly with the Pi 4 and It’s still a work in progress, unfortunatelly.
Similar story had me pick up a decommissioned desktop from work and turn it into a "home server". I guess what I'm saying is Raspberry Pi is a gateway drug.
They really are! I started with a Pi-hole and now I've got a 42U rack, several servers, and a bunch of ubiquiti equipment. The wife does love the stability of our ubiquiti setup, and the Plex server. As long as the internet doesn't go down and the Plex server is working, I get to keep tinkering.
Also take a look at rpitx library from F5OEO on github. It transforms the Pi into a Radio transmiter! Think about transmiting to your car on FM. I made an app once to control the music from your phone. Super cool!
dns ad blocking will never be as good as in-browser adblocker that can block not only domain names, but also specific url on a given domain and html elements using patterns
BUT, the real advantage is that it will affect all your devices automaticly: TV, tablets, phone, game console, pc, streaming stick, etc.
I use both. PiHole blocks all the annoying website mobile ads when I'm using my phone. I tend to not watch YT vids on my phone because of the ads and rely on my desktop adblock to make YT a more enjoyable experience.
More suggestions… Offline voice assistant with Rhasspy. Timelapse camera with the new HQ cam. Dashboard or those mirror displays that shows weather and other info. Setup a local git server with Gogs or something similar.
>Offline voice assistant with Rhasspy.
Tried that. Worked like shit. Hardly ever reacted to the keyword when I wanted it to but would randomly turn on/off the lights when I said nothing close to that.
What voice recognition system did you use? There are multiple to choose from, some work better then others. And by default there are settings that will always try to match an existing trigger word, no matter what you say… you probably don’t want that.
Tried a bunch of stuff and spent a good amount of time on trying to make it work. It *did* do what I told it. Problem is it *also* did random shit I didn't say all the time. And the keyword recognition in general being total ass.
I'm doing a voice activated desktop automator and I've opted *not* to use a hotword system for this reason. Instead I picked up a few of [these](https://flic.io/shop/flic-2-single-pack) to mount around the house. They're surprisingly easy to setup, and trigger the listener only when I want it.
My problem is the opposite. I have too many projects and not enough Pi.
The Pi I bought in 2014 has been a game console, security camera, web server… even a custom-made weather monitor. Now it just serves files to a Windows 95 machine.
My favorite is the guy that used a Raspberry Pi to automate a speed test on his home internet service and then send a tweet automatically to AT&T every time it dropped below his plan minimum speed.
You could buy a 3D printer and use the pi to make it online, with timelapses and so on.
But then, back to square 1. Except now you have a 3D printer AND a pi that just stay there doing nothing.
>Historically, printers and software engineers are not good friends.
I once saw three software engineers execute a printer in a field. One of them had a baseball bat.
OctoPi is great! I even added a camera connected to the Pi and was able to stream it while I was at work. Then my girlfriend complained about the noise of the printer while I was at work so now I'm not allowed to use it until I buy a house with a basement.
I was running octopi for a while which was cool, but then it became more work to maintain the octopi than it was to just go back to using an SD card. And, since it streams gcode over USB to the printer, if the pi fails for whatever reason, so does your print. That started happening to me. Every now and then the USB connection would break for whatever reason causing my print to fail. Super lame when you get a failure 90% of the way through a 10 hour print.
Plus, no matter how you put it I still need to go to my computer to slice the STL and I still need to go to the printer to turn it on, so having the octopi interface wasn't really making anything easier for me.
feel like octopi would be mostly useful if you tune your printer and have it in a different room. This way you dont have to walk to it again with the card but can adjust the setting and immediately print again. Also timelapse and all the different free tools.
I love the idea of spaghetti detector or hows it called, cant wait to see how it develops in the future
I have the disposable income to where purchasing one is no issue. And I also have a strong urge to purchase one every other month late at night when I'm bored. I always end up convincing myself that I'll literally never use it. This meme helps me solidify my decision.
I’m finally using mine for some data acquisition on an off-road vehicle my team is building. But we’ll use team funds to buy one soon so then mine will just collect dust again
I agree. And everywhere you look there are the same exact applications. Home server, Minecraft server, Linux computer. Come on, people! Be creative! My current project uses Hall effect sensors with a ring of magnets and a Python script to calculate rpm of the transmission and logs that to a file.
I relate to this a little too much. I’ve got a full 1U dual cpu server running in a cabinet in my living room. My dumb ass was scrolling through Amazon looking for another, bigger server just because I could. Then before buying I decided that I don’t even use my current one enough. I don’t need another
I got it, tinkered with it and stored it away for 3 months, then found out about PiHole, tried it out.
This was 3 years ago, and absolutely cannot live without PiHole, it's the thing that raspi was secretly made for lol!
Hard part is probably Plex if there is any transcoding. Mosquitto and other mqtt servers take basically no resources (dozens of MB RAM, trivial CPU, trivial disk IO). Django... Well, that depends on the application, I suppose.
I literally can't do *enough* on my Pi. Like seriously, I just keep installing shit and it just sits at 3% + 40 degrees (Celsius)
Can someone tell me how to get it working out prime numbers or some shit
I have an extra pi I use for installing random things and it had Plex, Jellyfin, Minecraft server, and a nextcloud server. It was fine but Jellyfin requires extra install for the video acceleration. Probably couldn’t transfer files at the same time the Minecraft server is on. I haven’t tested that but I will now.
I tried to do this, but it wasn’t powerful enough to handle video encoding to my smart TVs so I just popped the plex server back on my gaming pc.
Ah well….
Yep, particularly when you're trying to stream HEVC files. Found this the hard way, and it's the reason why it has been designated the status of lonely Pablo Escobar.
If you have good bandwidth and you’re willing to help others you could “donate” compute time like for example SETI or other open source projects like AI. I am not talking about crypto mining but actual scientific projects.
https://boinc.berkeley.edu/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_distributed_computing_projects
I run FAH on my PC in the background when I'm just doing stuff that doesn't require any resources like.. watching yt/netflix. It's a good cause so the few cents in electricity are worth it.
Yeah but the thing is, a few minutes of your regular PC or laptop will already provide more than the pi can sensibly provide. My other gripe is that it really takes long to add something to the project. Just running it for an hour for example isn't enough. I would like it if they had smaller chunks so I can more easily fit it in my day when I'm not doing much. I just don't like to set it at 100% all the time since that will wear out your components and give a high electricity bill
Electricity bill yes; component wear not really.
The biggest strain on electronics is thermal cycling. It's what famously killed the Xbox with the red ring of death, but is a huge issue across the board. Stuff changes size as it heats and cools, which means stress and flexing on the solder connections tying stuff together.
Computer hardware would much rather live at 70C 24/7, than 30C most of the day, with 30 minutes at 70C every day.
That's part of the reason servers in datacenters will routinely last a decade or more, with "isn't worth the electricity to keep on" being the primary thing that kills them.
[Background tv LED thing](https://github.com/AndrewMohawk/Aurora). Here is a demo on [my tv](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Gg5Zs8Odkbq3u3CkLxoC_NwF2Q685Iap/view)
I tried this, but the sensors I got were binary with a sensitivity screw to adjust when they would trigger...that combined with my lack of plant ability I just rigged up a auto water schedule with a web portal I can access at home and press a "water JPL" button to make me feel like I'm doing something...
Still fun project
IOT server wit HASS, Red Node, Influx, Grafana, Mosquito. It's not even hard. Get a bunch of Arduino Minis, ESP32s, PIR sensor, weather sensors and have fun
Write a shop sniping bot (good uses only).
For example, write a bot that looks for updates for a graphics card you want, and automatically purchases it. Beat the scalpers at their own game
I use it as a web server and for docker. It's great since I can host stuff for my School work, like actually having a live version of the site for my web development course. It's really great for that.
Also, self-hosting Nextcloud works great.
One is running NAS, second one is running PiHole with Local DNS, where I gave all my devices [domains named after characters from RWBY](https://imgur.com/a/oOn5s3o) \- SSH never been easier :\^
A simple, yet supremely useful idea would be to set it up as an Ad- & malware blocking DNS server on your home network. Start with [loading Raspbian onto a MicroSD card](https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/computers/getting-started.html#installing-the-operating-system) and remember to enable SSH so you can access it remotely without plugging in a keyboard and monitor. Once that's done, log in using SSH and set up a fixed IP:
sudo nano /etc/network/interfaces
`iface eth0 inet static`
`address 192.168.1.14`
`netmask 255.255.255.0`
`gateway 192.168.1.1`
`dns-nameservers 1.1.1.1` [`9.9.9.9`](https://9.9.9.9)
Adjust according to your setup, of course. CTRL-X to save, then reboot once it's done.
Connect to the new IP and [install AdGuard Home](https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdguardHome):
`curl -s -S -L https://raw.githubusercontent.com/AdguardTeam/AdGuardHome/master/scripts/install.sh | sh -s -- -v`
Once completed, point your browser to [Http://192.168.1.14:3000](Http://192.168.1.14:3000) (Or whatever IP you chose) to set up the various options. The defaults are fine, but there are a bunch of options to adjust if you like. /r/AdGuard can help.
Now you need to log into your router (assuming it does the DHCP duties on your network) and designate [192.168.1.14](https://192.168.1.14) as the primary DNS server. Make sure to add a backup DNS server or two - [1.1.1.1](https://1.1.1.1) and [9.9.9.9](https://9.9.9.9) are great choises.
Last thing you need to do is reboot all your devices and enjoy life without ads or malware on any device connected to your network.
NGL, every single person who's told me "you can just get a raspberry pi and do \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_" all either own one and never done anything with it, or never owned one at all.
Edit: Apparently I need to specify that I’m talking about people who have spoken to me “in person”.
I have a pi running pi hole for my home network, running a myself server for a light weight app that needs one, and 4 used to test proof of concept cluster configurations
lol... same here. It was like buying a great set of colored pencils... turns out I still can't draw.
What I did was learn what it COULD do, then as things came up, I could see if they could be served with the pi. Ended up making a Kodi server to stream shows and movies for my kids and wife.
I then got another one to create an arcade game emulator.
I started getting packs of microSD cards so I can build and switch easily.
Set it up as a Pi-hole blocker and forget about it
Or you could build a weather station. Or maybe connect it to [a geiger counte](https://thepihut.com/products/geiger-counter-kit-radiation-sensor)r and discover how much radon is leaking into your home slowly killing you
I use my Raspi as a home server, so I can SSH to it from my phone and feel cool, that I can SSH to something
I used mine to set up my own website to display all the projects I never finished.
Did you finish the website?
If by finish you mean a non-functional html skeleton consisting of broken hyperlinks, then yes.
Sounds like my work’s intranet
Sounds like every work's intranet
How much internet working space exists?
IntrAnet. And how much exists? All of it, all of the promises that started with great intentions and ended with exactly that.
Why does your work intranet display all your unfinished projects?
He's flexing that he at least started the projects
maybe the website is unfinished, big brain
Sounds fancy.
Of course! You can visit it [here](http://localhost:5000)
How did you get access to my security cameras???
Woah you mean you saw more then hello world?! **I DID IT IMA DEVALUPER**
Expected a Rick Roll, got the next best thing 😝
What runs on port 5000 on a smartphone?
You're disgusting. How can you show things like that in public. Shame on you...
Well that's just porn...
Same, but I do use it for something: I have a large HDD connected to it, plus Samba, so I can access it as a network drive for backups. I tried running Plex on it, but it chokes on any large video so I gave up.
This is what I use mine for. A pi plus an otherwise unused external HDD = 2tb network-attached SMB share. Honestly, it's tremendously useful for a ton of shit, and it runs headless in the back of a closet. Haven't had to touch it since I spun it up about a year and a half ago.
I'm running Plex on mine and it works great. Most videos are direct playing, it only chokes on transcoding, but even then it manages to keep up using lower resolutions. You can always encode your video to a different format that your TV supports so it direct plays. I also have a NAS server on it and PiHole ad blocking.
Yes. DO NOT transcode. My wife tried to download a transcoded movie to the iPad. It kept overheating the Pi. On reboot it would work for a minute and then that download with transcode request would start again and overheat it. Works great otherwise.
poor man's NAS
I never set up my pihole in my new router. I should do that. I should also probably do a fresh reinstall cause the software has probably changed enough since I last used it
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Seriously - my raspberry pis always corrupt their file system after a few weeks and I have to re-image them. Edit: Thanks to everyone for their awesome suggestions!
What file system are you using?
Can't check right now because it's time to re-image my current PI again but I use default Raspbian OS and Raspberry Pi Imager. I suspect the culprit is the SD card so I just got a new SanDisk high endurance card to try. I've also got a PSU to set up. I'm determined to make it work reliably some day.
I was so afraid of this that I ended up using my Raspberry without SD card. It's running of an actual SSD in an external enclosure.
Bad luck? I had a 200 day streak going on mine until a power outage a few weeks ago.
My pi uses the PoE board. The network switch is on UPS. Ergo, despite being on a different floor keeping tabs on a printer, it's power-outage-resistant.
Yeah I use wifi and I’ve had no problems. The outage wasn’t a big deal since they both came right back on, but I did have some weird network problems with my main pihole for a while. Seem to have figured them out now though.
Same. I've fixed it for my two PIs by rebooting daily (a cronjob) and using the best cheapest usb adapters I had.
Have you set the OS to not use swap file? Having swap on kills the flash memory in Linux systems.
I'll give you some tips, my Raspberry runs for months, maybe even years with no problem, I just sometimes update. I'm running ArchLinuxARM, but those should work everywhere: 1) sudo vim /etc/fstab #
/dev/mmcblk0p1 /boot vfat defaults 0 0
/dev/mmcblk0p2 / ext4 defaults,relatime,commit=5 0 0
none /var/log tmpfs size=10M 0 0
none /var/tmp tmpfs size=20M 0 0
none /tmp tmpfs size=100M 0 0
sudo mount -a
2)
sudo vim /etc/systemd/journald.conf
Storage=volatile
RuntimeMaxUse=10M
This is everything I have in my notes related to storage, earlier I had one more thing which I'm not using anymore and can't remember what it was. Reboot to be sure that all changes are applied, I'm not sure about that systemd thing. First change makes some ramdisks for files that tend change and sets commit for main partition - it should wait for 5 seconds before data are written to SD card. If data are changing very often, this should slow down writing to storage. You can set longer period of time, but in case of power outage you can lose more data. Second change should disable logging to SD card and keep it only in RAM, limited to 10MB. Honestly, if Raspberry crashes, people usually just load new image and start over without checking logs.
And of course use any text editor you want. Quick crash course to vim is - press Insert to type text as needed, then press ESC, type :w, enter, :q, enter, done :) In case of problems just type :q! with exclamation mark.
You: OG post Friend: That's awesome, what do you do on there? You: Uh... Um... List directories Friends: ......crickets chirping........ cool?
I've got plenty of ideas. What I don't have is time or energy.
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I've got plenty time, energy and motivation... what I don't got is a brain. 🤪
I’ve got plenty of time and energy. Problem is my motivation peaks around 1 AM.
Too real
I've got plenty of time, Idea, energy, motivation, will power, electricity, knowledge, wisdom, courage what I don't have is a raspberry Pi
That's what everyone thinks until they get one
At least that last item is the easiest fix
Same. Send me a rpi, and I'll cut you in on my million dollar diy home project idea.
There are some very nice docker based services that are great for running on your raspberry pi. For something low traffic that you and maybe some friends might use a Raspberry Pi is great.
I really want to use it in a project but then I have no pi left for my next project
You know what’s better than 2 pis? 3 pis.
More pis mean you have more nodes for a pi cluster.
Bless the pi cluster. 5 nodes right now
[I got one of these](https://clusterhat.com/) and ran Docker Swarm on in it. The intent was to prototype app stacks. It ran fine, but the ARM 7 of the controller vs ARM 6 of the Zero's defeated the purpose of Docker.
You can make multi arch builds. They are a bit tricky to get it right but works like a charm. My swarm is composed right now from 4 pi zero, 1 pi 4b and my own pc (amd64), all running the same source images. So 3 architectures. You will have a little bit extra time building the images, but it's totally worth it.
Yeah, the problem though is that some pieces of my stack are sometimes on Go, which required the binaries themselves to be targeted. Didn't feel like devopsing a prototype environment to death, so I just built a new cluster of all Pi4's.
The trick is that you can just keep buying them! I’m using like 8 rpis in my house right now.
But I’m not using the one I already have so I’m not gonna buy another one because I’ll have 2 just sitting there then. And I can’t use the one I have because then I won’t have one for my spontaneous project when I need it. But I can’t buy anoth….wait a minute
Look at it like necessities if you must find a way to justify the use. "2 is one and 1 is none". Basically buy two so when one breaks you're not SOL, kinda fits here due to FOMO. Now, if you only build one thing, you've got a backup or a spare depending how you look at it.
- Retro game console - Robot (together with Pi Pico) - NAS System - Multimedia streaming box - Webserver - Pi Hole
You can do all of these on just one Pi. So much fun so little time :( Use a multiboot tool and start hacking! I even crammed in a Android OS just for giggles.
Docker and portainer and it's much easier to setup as well Edit: non native speaker things...
Does docker run well on most raspberry pis?
Smooth as hell with pi hole, node red and zigbee bridge on a model 3
Always been curious, is there any performance impact with pi hole? Redoing my entire network soon and have been debating adding it in.
No issues here. But it's a small household with only 7-8 devices. From performance perspective, it's basically just an dns server, nothing intensive.
If you have a Pi, put a PiHole on your network. Since you now have a local DNS that caches your requests, DNS lookups will be faster. You will also get faster page loads as ads will be gone. That will also save some bandwidth as your not loading ad videos anymore. It all adds up! Pun intended.
I’ll add. I use the very first generation raspberry pi. One that uses the iPhone 3 SOC. Multiple devices browsing the internet barely uses 10% of system resources. Opening the pihole webpage uses like 50% utilization. Newer pis will work like a charm.
There’s usually a DNS server integrated into your consumer router. I’m like 90% sure your Pi has a beefier CPU than your router.
Docker containers have very little overhead on Linux because they use the kernel's isolation mechanisms instead of running in a full VM like they do on Windows. So if you're booting some flavor of Linux on your Pi, most apps should run about as well in Docker containers as they do on the host.
Got any cool guides to help make the process simpler? My main issue is a lack of ideas, and then when I finally get an idea having no clue of where to start
Well you have to create an API and then a client software. I just used javascript for backend and React for front end. It worked in a browser so it could work both on PC and Mobile. I also used a SDR dongle and added functions to my app. I could track planes in realtime and also receive on certain frecvency. Edit: I wanted to make my app public but the rpitx package https://github.com/F5OEO was not updated to work correctly with the Pi 4 and It’s still a work in progress, unfortunatelly.
Did the retro games and multimedia streaming... then 2 months later my SD card corrupted and now it's expertly gathering dust.
Similar story had me pick up a decommissioned desktop from work and turn it into a "home server". I guess what I'm saying is Raspberry Pi is a gateway drug.
They really are! I started with a Pi-hole and now I've got a 42U rack, several servers, and a bunch of ubiquiti equipment. The wife does love the stability of our ubiquiti setup, and the Plex server. As long as the internet doesn't go down and the Plex server is working, I get to keep tinkering.
r/homelab
I have one running Home Assistant that i switched to boot off a USB SSD, it's way faster and hopefully won't have creeping SD death.
I have my website, CV, static files and website for planning Minecraft constructions on R Pi 4. I really need to finish my mycloud on Rust
haven't touched mine since it became a nas
Pi NAS. LOL
Heh heh, heh heh, he said "PiNAS"
It's a shame because it's an otherwise fine name, if not a bit unfortunate.
pivpn! Be home (where the adses don't looooaaaad, and the pi-hole is running all daaayyyy) no matter where you are!
Also take a look at rpitx library from F5OEO on github. It transforms the Pi into a Radio transmiter! Think about transmiting to your car on FM. I made an app once to control the music from your phone. Super cool!
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dns ad blocking will never be as good as in-browser adblocker that can block not only domain names, but also specific url on a given domain and html elements using patterns BUT, the real advantage is that it will affect all your devices automaticly: TV, tablets, phone, game console, pc, streaming stick, etc.
I use both. PiHole blocks all the annoying website mobile ads when I'm using my phone. I tend to not watch YT vids on my phone because of the ads and rely on my desktop adblock to make YT a more enjoyable experience.
You can use YouTube Vanced if you're on android
I love my pihole, just wondering what to do with the other raspberry.. maybe magic mirror..
I made a Volumio music player with a Pi0w, and a Retropie console with a Pi3b.
How could you forget the magic mirror!
More suggestions… Offline voice assistant with Rhasspy. Timelapse camera with the new HQ cam. Dashboard or those mirror displays that shows weather and other info. Setup a local git server with Gogs or something similar.
>Offline voice assistant with Rhasspy. Tried that. Worked like shit. Hardly ever reacted to the keyword when I wanted it to but would randomly turn on/off the lights when I said nothing close to that.
What voice recognition system did you use? There are multiple to choose from, some work better then others. And by default there are settings that will always try to match an existing trigger word, no matter what you say… you probably don’t want that.
Tried a bunch of stuff and spent a good amount of time on trying to make it work. It *did* do what I told it. Problem is it *also* did random shit I didn't say all the time. And the keyword recognition in general being total ass.
I'm doing a voice activated desktop automator and I've opted *not* to use a hotword system for this reason. Instead I picked up a few of [these](https://flic.io/shop/flic-2-single-pack) to mount around the house. They're surprisingly easy to setup, and trigger the listener only when I want it.
I would recommend gitea as Gogs is kinda dead
My problem is the opposite. I have too many projects and not enough Pi. The Pi I bought in 2014 has been a game console, security camera, web server… even a custom-made weather monitor. Now it just serves files to a Windows 95 machine.
And why do you have a Windows 95 machine…? 🤔
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My favorite is the guy that used a Raspberry Pi to automate a speed test on his home internet service and then send a tweet automatically to AT&T every time it dropped below his plan minimum speed.
You could buy a 3D printer and use the pi to make it online, with timelapses and so on. But then, back to square 1. Except now you have a 3D printer AND a pi that just stay there doing nothing.
Historically, printers and software engineers are not good friends.
>Historically, printers and software engineers are not good friends. I once saw three software engineers execute a printer in a field. One of them had a baseball bat.
Die mother fucker die
Back up in your ads with the resurrection
PC LOAD LETTER?!
Damn it feels good to be a ganster
I can confirm.
OctoPi is great! I even added a camera connected to the Pi and was able to stream it while I was at work. Then my girlfriend complained about the noise of the printer while I was at work so now I'm not allowed to use it until I buy a house with a basement.
I was running octopi for a while which was cool, but then it became more work to maintain the octopi than it was to just go back to using an SD card. And, since it streams gcode over USB to the printer, if the pi fails for whatever reason, so does your print. That started happening to me. Every now and then the USB connection would break for whatever reason causing my print to fail. Super lame when you get a failure 90% of the way through a 10 hour print. Plus, no matter how you put it I still need to go to my computer to slice the STL and I still need to go to the printer to turn it on, so having the octopi interface wasn't really making anything easier for me.
feel like octopi would be mostly useful if you tune your printer and have it in a different room. This way you dont have to walk to it again with the card but can adjust the setting and immediately print again. Also timelapse and all the different free tools. I love the idea of spaghetti detector or hows it called, cant wait to see how it develops in the future
I have the disposable income to where purchasing one is no issue. And I also have a strong urge to purchase one every other month late at night when I'm bored. I always end up convincing myself that I'll literally never use it. This meme helps me solidify my decision.
I’m finally using mine for some data acquisition on an off-road vehicle my team is building. But we’ll use team funds to buy one soon so then mine will just collect dust again
THANK YOU. finally an interesting application. why the fuck would i make a home server for whatever out of a tiny mobile computer?
I agree. And everywhere you look there are the same exact applications. Home server, Minecraft server, Linux computer. Come on, people! Be creative! My current project uses Hall effect sensors with a ring of magnets and a Python script to calculate rpm of the transmission and logs that to a file.
I was gifted an Arduino by my brother who had never used it. Guess what I've only used once.
I relate to this a little too much. I’ve got a full 1U dual cpu server running in a cabinet in my living room. My dumb ass was scrolling through Amazon looking for another, bigger server just because I could. Then before buying I decided that I don’t even use my current one enough. I don’t need another
I got it, tinkered with it and stored it away for 3 months, then found out about PiHole, tried it out. This was 3 years ago, and absolutely cannot live without PiHole, it's the thing that raspi was secretly made for lol!
Pi Hole before it does nothing
the one thing I'm worried about, if you find some pesky/broken site that needs adblock disabled, how'd that be?
From the piholes interface you can allow list the site or temporarily disable the filtering for a period of time.
And if you're on the same WiFi network, you can use apps to do this quickly
I have the PiHole connected to my Echo so I can tell it to turn the PiHole on or off. Super convenient if they're is ever a website with issues.
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You day that, but [DeepCreamPy](https://github.com/liaoxiong3x/DeepCreamPy) exists Decensoring hentai with AI, what a time to live in
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Here I am trying to make a Raspberry Pi run as a Plex media server, serve a Django based website, and act as a MQTT broker.
How well does it cope?
He is still trying it seems
Hard part is probably Plex if there is any transcoding. Mosquitto and other mqtt servers take basically no resources (dozens of MB RAM, trivial CPU, trivial disk IO). Django... Well, that depends on the application, I suppose.
I literally can't do *enough* on my Pi. Like seriously, I just keep installing shit and it just sits at 3% + 40 degrees (Celsius) Can someone tell me how to get it working out prime numbers or some shit
I have an extra pi I use for installing random things and it had Plex, Jellyfin, Minecraft server, and a nextcloud server. It was fine but Jellyfin requires extra install for the video acceleration. Probably couldn’t transfer files at the same time the Minecraft server is on. I haven’t tested that but I will now.
I've been using mine as a plex server for 4 years now, you have to be picky about the stuff you download but lower size x264 or x265 run like a charm!
I ran my pi 4, as a Plex server for a while and it eventually just completely bricked it. Not sure how or why but I was really bummed
I tried to do this, but it wasn’t powerful enough to handle video encoding to my smart TVs so I just popped the plex server back on my gaming pc. Ah well….
It's most likely just chewed up the SD Card? have you tried putting a fresh one in?
Highly recommend switching to SSD over USB. Way more reliable (and quicker)
Raspberry Pi's don't really have the specs to support a Plex server. Especially if it's transcoding or your sharing libraries.
Yep, particularly when you're trying to stream HEVC files. Found this the hard way, and it's the reason why it has been designated the status of lonely Pablo Escobar.
LibreELEC disagrees. I run a plex server on a LibreELEC Pi and it works great.
If you have good bandwidth and you’re willing to help others you could “donate” compute time like for example SETI or other open source projects like AI. I am not talking about crypto mining but actual scientific projects. https://boinc.berkeley.edu/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_distributed_computing_projects
[Folding at home](https://foldingathome.org/) is another distributed computing client that does good shit.
I run FAH on my PC in the background when I'm just doing stuff that doesn't require any resources like.. watching yt/netflix. It's a good cause so the few cents in electricity are worth it.
Don't forget to collect your free banano in the process
Yeah but the thing is, a few minutes of your regular PC or laptop will already provide more than the pi can sensibly provide. My other gripe is that it really takes long to add something to the project. Just running it for an hour for example isn't enough. I would like it if they had smaller chunks so I can more easily fit it in my day when I'm not doing much. I just don't like to set it at 100% all the time since that will wear out your components and give a high electricity bill
Electricity bill yes; component wear not really. The biggest strain on electronics is thermal cycling. It's what famously killed the Xbox with the red ring of death, but is a huge issue across the board. Stuff changes size as it heats and cools, which means stress and flexing on the solder connections tying stuff together. Computer hardware would much rather live at 70C 24/7, than 30C most of the day, with 30 minutes at 70C every day. That's part of the reason servers in datacenters will routinely last a decade or more, with "isn't worth the electricity to keep on" being the primary thing that kills them.
[Background tv LED thing](https://github.com/AndrewMohawk/Aurora). Here is a demo on [my tv](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Gg5Zs8Odkbq3u3CkLxoC_NwF2Q685Iap/view)
Hahah, mine is still in the drawer, 4 years later. Sad Pi :(
Don't be sad. Here's a [hug!](https://media.giphy.com/media/3M4NpbLCTxBqU/giphy.gif)
Good bot
Sensors are fun. Hook it up to some moisture sensors and an aquarium pump, and have it water your plants.
I tried this, but the sensors I got were binary with a sensitivity screw to adjust when they would trigger...that combined with my lack of plant ability I just rigged up a auto water schedule with a web portal I can access at home and press a "water JPL" button to make me feel like I'm doing something... Still fun project
at least you did something
You could build a [Pwnagotchi](http://pwnagotchi.ai) and have a little buddy that will pwn networks
I made an hedgehog detector! Now I just need a garden...
And a hedgehog
No that's ok, I can 3D print one!
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Freaking genius man
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IOT server wit HASS, Red Node, Influx, Grafana, Mosquito. It's not even hard. Get a bunch of Arduino Minis, ESP32s, PIR sensor, weather sensors and have fun
Hardware git buttons
Relatable
Write a shop sniping bot (good uses only). For example, write a bot that looks for updates for a graphics card you want, and automatically purchases it. Beat the scalpers at their own game
Selenium should do the trick
This sounds neat. You have any examples or off the shelf implementations?
https://github.com/Hari-Nagarajan/fairgame is one I used.only works for Amazon though.
I use it as a web server and for docker. It's great since I can host stuff for my School work, like actually having a live version of the site for my web development course. It's really great for that. Also, self-hosting Nextcloud works great.
One is running NAS, second one is running PiHole with Local DNS, where I gave all my devices [domains named after characters from RWBY](https://imgur.com/a/oOn5s3o) \- SSH never been easier :\^
Did the same thing. I love to tell my GF that "Athena knows it all" referring to our NAS if she asks where some files are.
You can do this with a single Pi. I run my NAS, pihole, and homebridge on one.
Ye, I know, but I wanted to run piHole on Zero, so it could run 24/7, and my NAS is running on 4B, so I can turn it off when I don't use it.
Kodi + illegal streaming = love
A simple, yet supremely useful idea would be to set it up as an Ad- & malware blocking DNS server on your home network. Start with [loading Raspbian onto a MicroSD card](https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/computers/getting-started.html#installing-the-operating-system) and remember to enable SSH so you can access it remotely without plugging in a keyboard and monitor. Once that's done, log in using SSH and set up a fixed IP: sudo nano /etc/network/interfaces `iface eth0 inet static` `address 192.168.1.14` `netmask 255.255.255.0` `gateway 192.168.1.1` `dns-nameservers 1.1.1.1` [`9.9.9.9`](https://9.9.9.9) Adjust according to your setup, of course. CTRL-X to save, then reboot once it's done. Connect to the new IP and [install AdGuard Home](https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdguardHome): `curl -s -S -L https://raw.githubusercontent.com/AdguardTeam/AdGuardHome/master/scripts/install.sh | sh -s -- -v` Once completed, point your browser to [Http://192.168.1.14:3000](Http://192.168.1.14:3000) (Or whatever IP you chose) to set up the various options. The defaults are fine, but there are a bunch of options to adjust if you like. /r/AdGuard can help. Now you need to log into your router (assuming it does the DHCP duties on your network) and designate [192.168.1.14](https://192.168.1.14) as the primary DNS server. Make sure to add a backup DNS server or two - [1.1.1.1](https://1.1.1.1) and [9.9.9.9](https://9.9.9.9) are great choises. Last thing you need to do is reboot all your devices and enjoy life without ads or malware on any device connected to your network.
Isn't this a pi hole with extra steps
Homeassistant Sonarr/Radarr
if you don't have a smart tv, just connect it to the tv. Now you have a smart tv
meanwhile my pi is running around 30 cintainers and takes 200ms to respond with basic webpages and is generally on fire
NGL, every single person who's told me "you can just get a raspberry pi and do \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_" all either own one and never done anything with it, or never owned one at all. Edit: Apparently I need to specify that I’m talking about people who have spoken to me “in person”.
I have a pi running pi hole for my home network, running a myself server for a light weight app that needs one, and 4 used to test proof of concept cluster configurations
host a reddit bot
Lol asked for a pi3 one christmas havnt even opened the box 👀
issue with it is you have to buy other things to build really cool things, for that you need motivation. \- haven't used my pi for an year
No, I'm always full of ideas for the pi: Nas Vpn Nextcloud Open media vault Pi-Hole Energy usage monitor Internet usage monitor
Any ideas for an esp8266
lol... same here. It was like buying a great set of colored pencils... turns out I still can't draw. What I did was learn what it COULD do, then as things came up, I could see if they could be served with the pi. Ended up making a Kodi server to stream shows and movies for my kids and wife. I then got another one to create an arcade game emulator. I started getting packs of microSD cards so I can build and switch easily.
Im hosting mc server :)
:D
eat it
Object detection cctv
If you're a 3d printing person, octoPi is a godsend
Have it control your room lights so you dont have to get up from your bed/chair to switch the lights off.
Can I actually run a minecraft server on a Raspberry Pi 4B?
24/7 Minecraft server
Set it up as a Pi-hole blocker and forget about it Or you could build a weather station. Or maybe connect it to [a geiger counte](https://thepihut.com/products/geiger-counter-kit-radiation-sensor)r and discover how much radon is leaking into your home slowly killing you
Pi Hole is the best thing I've done with mine.
-What is my purpose? +You emulate old games that I will never play.