Do any of you use Raspberry Pi’s ?

Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨atomWood@lemm.ee⁩ to ⁨selfhosted@lemmy.world⁩

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?

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dandroid@dandroid.app ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I own a raspberry pi 4. Every time I try to use it, I spend half my time trying to fix the stuttery/non responsive UI by fucking with the compistor and such. And then I give up.

I eventually got a new gaming PC and turned my old one into a Linux server, and haven’t really touched my Raspberry Pi since.

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- Adulated_Aspersion@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I’ll give you $5 for it!
  
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  - admin@lemmy.mohammadodeh.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    And I’ll give you $10 for it
    
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- notfromhere@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Try running a server image on it without desktop and then logging into it over the network from another device like a laptop via ssh
  
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  - dandroid@dandroid.app ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    My usecase required a GUI. I was trying to have a mini PC connected to my TV to watch live sports games in a web browser (pirated streams). I was getting micro stutters with a raspberry pi, which made sports unwatchable.
    
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spez_@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Yes, I’m using a Raspberry Pi 4 Model B 8GB. I’m using the Argon Eon case and it serves my needs well. The speeds are slow however, so keep that in mind

It can run a surprisingly large amount of services. I’m running:

Vaultwarden

Immich (ML and typesense enabled)

Jellyfin

Joplin Server

Gitea

Audiobookshelf

PaperlessNGX

There’s still 2GB of RAM left, so I’m looking to self host Firefly III

On another Raspberry Pi 4 Model B 4GB, I’m hosting Home Assistant
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- Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I’m running an Argon for that sweet SSD action as well!
  
  I’m only using OMV right now and it works, but I’d LOVE to get a container with torrents via VPN… I can’t do it, though. I’m awful at it. Do you have any resources on how to set up Portainer? It changed recently, and was a weeeeird process to set up in OMV.
  
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i_lost_my_bagel@seriously.iamincredibly.gay ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
This lemmy instance is running on my Pi

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adam@kbin.pieho.me ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
It runs the KBin instance I'm using to reply to you :)

Also Adguard home.

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YIj54yALOJxEsY20eU@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Lets see…

nord vpn client

qbittorrent (through nord vpn)

proxy server (through nord vpn)

wireguard vpn server

ssh client so I can port forward through the vpn server to/from connected clients

jellyfin

ntfy (self hosted notifications)

pi-hole (vital for the local dns)

nginx

gitea

wallabag

minecraft server

container registery

smb share for my friend (I help them with content creation) -smb share for a live recording profile I set up on android Those are just docker containers, it also is a backup server for all the devices I own. It also runs all non sensitive data on an unencrypted partition then will auto decrypt the sensitive partion through ssh via my desktop. This means my vpn server will always run so I can connect, wake on lan my desktop, decrypt it and log in. Im sure I’m missing things.
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- notfromhere@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  My list is very similar but I have my Pis in a k3s cluster with a NAS for PVs. That allows me to not worry about what physical device is hosting the service, and I built it so I can intermix amd64 devices when I start adding in my used laptops into the mix.
  
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a_fancy_kiwi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I have one pi (rpi 4b) that I still use. I have it in an Argon One V2 case for the daughter board that lets me boot from an M.2 SATA SSD. I got tired of the corrupted SD cards. It’s actually reliable now.

Anyway, I mainly only use it because in the event of a power outage, as soon as power is restored, it automatically turns on. If I’m not home, I can SSH back into my network and send a WoL packet to my actual server to turn it back on.

The pi also runs:

Scrypted so I can view my ring cameras in the Apple Home app and so I get the “someone is at the door” notifications on my Apple TV

Pi-Hole

Pi-VPN
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cestvrai@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I have a Pi4 running octoprint, pi-hole and some of my own containers.

The rest I run on a Hetzner VM.

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Kaldo@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I feel old, I don't understand 90% of words in this thread lol.

I just have kodi on Libreelec with a jellyfin plugin on my rpi4 and even that struggled with overheating at times. So I run most stuff on my pc instead. I'm tempted to try the portainer to get some experience with docker tho.

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- buzz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Dont even bother with portainer on RPI. Too low powered.
  
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  - notfromhere@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    I have k3s running on my Pi cluster and have dozens of services running on them. USB drives for the lot of them.
    
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  - Kaldo@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Really? I've seen threads with people claiming to run dozens of services on it. What do you recommend instead, just any rpi OS and installing them like I would on regular linux?
    
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thatsnothowyoudoit@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Cluster of Pi4 8GBs. Bought pre-pandemic; love the little things.

Nomad, Consul, Gluster, w/ TrueNas-backed NFS for the big files.

They do all sorts of nifty things for us including Nightscout, LanguageTool OSS, monitoring for ubiquiti, Nextdrive, Grafana (which I use for home monitoring - temps/humidity with alerts), Prometheus & Mimir, Postgres, Codeserver.

Basically I use them to schedule dockerized services I want to run or am interested in playing with/learning.

Also I use Rapsberry Pi zero 2 w’s with Shairport-sync (github.com/mikebrady/shairport-sync ) as Airplay 2 streaming bridges for audio equipment that isn’t networked or doesn’t support AirPlay 2.

I’m not sure I’d buy a Pi4 today; but they’ve been great so far.

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Valmond@lemmy.mindoki.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I made a python soft that uses the pi camera and scans qr codes, and plays the playlist that’s on the eventual qr code. Just show the album and it plays.

But they have become so incredible expensive, and banana pis etc just doesn’t work that well, so I just stopped the whole Raspberry Pi craze.

Today I just collected a 55€ Lenovo thinkcenter (like 18cm squared x 3.5cm) with a quad core, 8GB/256GB. I think it will replace my next rpi quite well and when it breaks, I can get another one quite simply.

If I want to do more to the metal electronics stuff, I’ll just use a 2560 Mega or an esp8266 or similar.

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NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I have one Pi 4b for my Homeassistant. It is fixed to a wall, next to the routers, running 24/7.

I did not want to include this on my other Homeserver to avoid the dependency.

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- Hotzilla@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I use rasp as Bluetooth receiver for my home assistant sensors (Ruuvi tags mainly)
  
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- WaterSword@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  This is basically my setup except I don’t have any other homeserver stuff yet :) (I will once I build my new gaming pc, planning to use my old one for that stuff)
  
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aidan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Octopi

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JustARegularNerd@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Yes, it’s probably pretty demanding of the hardware but my Pi4 4GB runs:

Heimdall

Portainer

Vaultwarden

Flatnotes

ownCloud

FreshRSS

Paperless
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random_character_a@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Home security system, VPN, DNS server with pihole.

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- SirEDCaLot@lemmy.fmhy.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  security? For surveillance or something more?
  
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  - random_character_a@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Wireless Z-wave module, door sensors, fire alarm, motion sensors, hidden on/off switch. Raspberry itself works as the camera and has motion detection if needed. Event notices are send using xmpp.
    
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DeltaTangoLima@reddrefuge.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I used to run pretty much all my workloads on Raspberry Pis, mostly in docker containers. I’ve since moved over to some ex enterprise servers and Proxmox, so I really only have a couple of Pis left in service, running:

Frigate: nvr for my IP cameras

exim: mail relay server for my stuff to be able to email out (nothing in)

Wireguard: outbound VPN server connected to Mullvad

Pi-hole: 2nd instance for redundancy, also runs cloudflared (for DNSoHTTP) and pihole-exporter (for putting Pi-hole stats into Prometheus)

Mosquitto: because I haven’t moved it yet

Prometheus: ditto
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juja@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I use it as a media remote for my computer via infrared. IR sensor sends analog data to an arduino which converts it to digital and sends it to a raspberry pi which then invokes commands to control media on my computer by invoking rest apis on a “unified remote” server running on the computer.

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- NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Feeling impressed here…
  
  If I want to have this, too: is there a kinda tutorial or quick-setup, or is it more like 6 weeks of tinkering? :-)
  
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  - juja@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    It actually turned out to be easier than I thought.
    
    The infrared reader (arduino code) is based on
    
    github.com/Arduino-IRremote/Arduino-IRremote
    
    The code running on my raspberry pi was written in Java using spring boot which is probably overkill but I am more comfortable with java than python so I used
    
    github.com/Fazecast/jSerialComm
    
    to read data from the pi’s usb port and just sent instructions to the unified remote server which does most of the heavy lifting. I used
    
    github.com/…/UnifiedRemoteConnection.java
    
    as a reference along with some verbose logging on the unified remote server to see what codes needed to be sent over the rest api.
    
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megaman@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
RP4 running Home Assistant. Running HA in a docker container is harder than running it as the OS on a Pi4. Running HA is how I get into this, i kept trying to put more crap into HA as addons before realizing i should set up a proper server.

I assembled a handful of temp/humidity sensors (that are actually running on Wemos D1 minis).

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- WhiteOakBayou@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  What makes it harder in the container?
  
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  - megaman@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Maybe it isnt as bad as i remember, or maybe i tried doing HA Core on the debian server or something… maybe it got better or maybe im a fool? (I definitely am a fool).
    
    I guess it just as much came down to that I already had the pi, so just running it on that like i had for a year was less hassle than starting it via docker on the other machine?
    
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  - BOFH666@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    No HACS support out of the box. (HA as docker)
    
    The only use for RPI is kodi and Mainsail for the printer. All of them boot from NFS, so no storage issues. Everything else is x86-64 or docker containers on those Intel/amd machines.
    
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Iam@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Just one RPI 4 with Soulseek and NFS shares.

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- dan@upvote.au ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Are you using slskd, SoulseekQT or Nicotine++?
  
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yuuki@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
RPi 4B > DietPi > Pi hole + Unbound.

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blazeknave@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Home Assistant

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oranki@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I used to run everything with Pis, but then got a x86 USFF to improve Nextcloud performance.

With the energy price madness last year in Europe, I moved most things to cloud VPSs.

One Pi is still running Home Assistant, hooked to my heating/ventilation unit via RS485/modbus.

I had a ZFS backup server with 2 HDDs hooked up over USB to a Pi 8GB. That is just way too unreliable for anything serious, I think I now have a lot of corrupted files in the backups. Looking into getting some Synology unit for that.

For anything serious that requires file storage, I’d steer clear from USB or SD cards. After getting used to SATA performance, it’s hard to go back anyways. I’d really like to use the Pis, but family photo backups turning gray due to bitflips is unacceptable.

They are a great entrypoint to self-hosting and the Linux world though!

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poke@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
pihole and an always-on syncthing node.

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lemming007@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I run PiHole on mine

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adonis@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I wanted to reuse one for octoprint, but it turned out to be unreliable. So I switched to my NUC instead.

I have the feeking that those SD cards just don't perform well and wear out more easily, and I really use good ones.

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- mykneedoesnthurt@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Small piece of tape on one of the 4 exposed USB leads on the connector trick fixes this problem.
  
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- klangcola@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  For RPi the two major causes of issues (in my experience) are low spec power supplies and low spec SD-cards.
  
  Power supplies drop voltage when the loads gets too high, which is especially pronounced with high power USB devices like external harddrives.
  
  SD-cards tend to get worn out or give write errors after enough writes. Class 10 SD cards are recommended for both speed and longevity. And ideally try to avoid write intensive stuff on the SD card
  
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  - ohmesocorny@discuss.online ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Forget SD cards for Raspberry Pis - boot from an SSD in a USB enclosure, they have better longevity than SD cards.
    
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BCsven@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Open Media Vault on a pi setup with external hard drive. Mainly for Samba Shares, and added the DAAP server. And since it comes with portainer I used that to setup HomeAssistant, Syncthing, CUPS, kanboard, whoogle, and Trilium Notes. Amazing little piece of tech.

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Bytemeister@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Yes. I use my for PiHole and Wireguard VPN.

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BallsInTheShredder@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I’m new to the party and am still experimenting, not super tech savvy but I’ve been doing a few things.

I have one SD set up for retro gaming via Lakka. Wish Lakka had an option to add a desktop like RetroPie but just really love the interface and ease of use. Tried recalbox and it’s nice as well! Can’t remember why I settled for Lakka.

Another SD is for experimenting at the moment. As mentioned I’m brand new to the pi community so I’ve installed Raspbian on it and have just been testing the waters. Set up iirc my first VNC network between it, my PC and my phone. Also have been using it to rip and burn DVDs via brasero. Don’t have wifi at home, I use a hotspot which complicates using my printer wirelessly so I’m considering using the pi as a network for that. There’s also a cool program I found where you learn musical coding? It’s pretty interesting though I still don’t really know what it’s for haha.

I’d really like to do more with it but as mentioned am just learning. Hell, I just got it running a few weeks ago after it had been down for a couple years so I’m sure I l’ll be doing more when I find the time.

I’d love to set it up in my vehicle and have Spotify, gps navigation, retro gaming etc through it but seems like a big project with my limited understanding ATM.

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SomeBoyo@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I use mine as a minimalistic NAS and media server

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cmeerw@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I am actually using a OrangePiPC as:

WLAN access point (hostapd)

LTE Internet via a E3372 USB dongle

radio via DVB-T dongle/Internet

USB speakers for the radio

Bluetooth dongle to connect to Bluetooth-enabled speaker in another room

USB temperature sensor, motion sensors via GPIO

VoIP telephone with connected USB headset

small LCD display to show the current temperature and incoming call information
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duckCityComplex@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I have 6 4b’s running PiCorePlayer for home audio. I control them with LMS and can sync them or play different things in different rooms.

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- selflock@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I’m curious about your setup, did you follow a particular guide and what kind of speakers are they connected to? Thanks!
  
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  - duckCityComplex@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    I don’t think I followed a specific guide. I’m using the HifiBerry Amp2 amplifier with the Pis. The house I moved into had Bose in-wall speakers in a couple of rooms and I added some in-ceiling speakers and a couple of outdoor speakers. Most of the speaker wires are routed down to the basement, so I can have all the Pis connected right to the switch via Ethernet.
    
    Running speaker cable is by far the hardest thing about this. You could also connect the Pis via Wi-fi; I haven’t tried that but it is supposed to work pretty well.
    
    On the software end, it’s pretty simple. PiCorePlayer is just an image you burn to an SD card and boot up on the Pis. I run LMS in a docker container. As long as the PiCorePlayer instances and LMS are all on the same subnet, they will auto-discover each other. If they’re not, it’s just a matter of configuring the LMS server URL on the PiCorePlayers.
    
    LMS configuration is also pretty simple… you point it at your music folder and it will scan and index your MP3s and other audio files. It has plugins for Spotify, Tidal, Youtube, and some other apps. You can control it via browser, or there are Android and iOS mobile apps.
    
    Once you buy the Pis, amps, power supplies, and cases, you are looking at probably $140 or so per zone… so it’s not entirely cheap, but I think it’s cheaper than Sonos or other pre-built systems. It sounds great and the different Pis sync very well. I don’t hear any sync issues walking from zone to zone.
    
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