For those of you who use Raspberry Pi’s in your home environment, I’m curious as to what you use them for. What applications are you running on them? Do you have your Pi’s setup in a cluster?

  • Darkscryber@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    9 个月前

    One for pihole

    I used one in the past for Unify Controller but it broke

    Another one is a USB wifi hub to control my telescope equipment remotely.

  • Turing spider@lemm.eeEnglish
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    9 个月前

    I use a pi 3 to host backups from my main server via restic. I also have a pi 4 that I use as a VPN server

  • thelastknowngod@lemm.eeEnglish
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    9 个月前

    Mostly as kodi/plex front ends. I’ve set them up as a kubernetes cluster in the past but they didn’t have enough ram to run my torrent client. Now I just use an old Thinkpad running talos.

  • Rearsays@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    9 个月前

    Yeah but they’re really only good for single purpose things I keep killing sd cards trying to do more.

    • Scrappy@feddit.nlEnglish
      8·
      9 个月前

      Boot from USB is your friend! Use a USB to SSD connector and boot from SSD. Havent had a single storage problem since I switched to SSD :)

  • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    9 个月前

    Yes.

    The jobs they do:

    LAN print server

    Running OctoPi for a 3D printer

    PiHole and VPN for the home LAN

    Experimenting with OpenHab

    Portable Kodi box.

    And a crappy mass storage server via USB.

  • JustARegularNerd@aussie.zoneEnglish
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    9 个月前

    Yes, it’s probably pretty demanding of the hardware but my Pi4 4GB runs:

    • Heimdall
    • Portainer
    • Vaultwarden
    • Flatnotes
    • ownCloud
    • FreshRSS
    • Paperless
  • 7fb2adfb45bafcc01c80@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    9 个月前

    I have one set up as an irrigation controller. I was going to build an OpenStack cluster to test configuration settings on (I run a production cluster at work), but gave up when the supply chain problems happened and prices skyrocketed.

  • mondoman712@lemmy.mlEnglish
    2·
    9 个月前

    I have a Turing pi V2, currently with only one CM4 module in it, running some *arrs, paperless, smb and some monitoring.

  • dan@upvote.au
    1·
    9 个月前

    I run AdGuard Home (mostly for malware domain blocking and DNS caching) on my home server, and the Pi acts as a secondary DNS server. I use AdGuardHome-Sync to keep the config in sync across the two.

    • Darkassassin07@lemmy.caEnglish
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      9 个月前

      I’ve had a few issues with sd card corruption over the years, so I wrote a script to mount a local ssh server then backup the whole sd card to it as an .img each day.

      Then whenever I have an issue (even just my own stupidity) all I’ve gotta do is pull the sd card and write the latest .img to it.

        • Darkassassin07@lemmy.caEnglish
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          9 个月前

          Single backup? Ie overwriting the previous backup? Maybe you didn’t get to restoring it until after it had backed up the broken files.

          Multiple backups over days helps. I keep a weeks worth of daily backups in case I miss the issue for a while. The script appends the date to the filename.

  • Vex_Detrause@lemmy.caEnglish
    2·
    9 个月前

    Raspberry Pi 3 B+ with Pihole. Its hard to look at websites without Pihole. Oh! I have another running Octopi for my 3D printer.

    • Mossheart@lemmy.caEnglish
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      9 个月前

      Did you find any way to have pihole work with mobile properly? I tried it 6 months ago and while it blocked ads, it left giant gaping white spaces with Xs through em, searing my eyes at night.