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?
I have 3 of the 3rd generation ones to mess around on.
Do any of you use Raspberry Pi’s ?
Submitted 1 year ago by atomWood@lemm.ee to selfhosted@lemmy.world
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ebits21@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Violet_McQuasional@feddit.uk 1 year ago
Use an old Pi 3B for running zigbee2mqtt on docker.
I used to run just the Linux version of it but decided to install docker on the Pi so it’s as easy as doing
docker-compose pullto update it.This is so I can control my various lights and switches using Home Assistant.
ninekeysdown@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Testing ideas with kubernetes before moving to the POC stage
flustered@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I use my pi for 3dprinting management.
Aggravationstation@lemmy.film 1 year ago
I have Home Assistant on one and Kodi on another
Khanzarate@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I used a pi 3 to host a Foundry server (TTRPG software).
I use Docker to simplify things, since I run two instances of it. Simple port forwarding setup within the docker container. the main reason I used a pi instead of my computer is so my players could access their dnd stuff all the time.
I stopped because I switched ISPs and they won’t let me port-forward. My vpn supports it but the latency isn’t ideal. I host the same thing through a cheap server now.
catnip@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
Incase you wanna go back to port forwarding, you could try ipv6! Just gotta make sure all your party members computers have ipv6 enabled
Khanzarate@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Dunno enough about ipv6, wouldn’t my ISP still need to allow it?
That’s my understanding, and there’s no option in their locked-up router to enable it, for ipv6 either.
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
I’ve got one as a Pi Hole, one as a Kodi box, and a few others I keep around as basically electronic multitools.
bayleafwalker@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I’ve got several for random little tasks that crop up, but main use is for the conbee II I have running the zigbee network for all the smart lights. I’ve got a UPS hat using some old 26650 cells for battery backup, mostly so that if power cuts off I don’t run into any issues with the setup and the rare cases where I have to take the power off the server rack for whatever reason. RPi has actually been rock solid for couple years now so no issues with that side, wife approval factor has likewise been high
For most everything else I’m running a docker and VMs in TrueNAS, but would probably change that setup at some point…
dan@upvote.au 1 year ago
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.
Konstant@lemmy.world 1 year ago
[deleted]Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
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.
7fb2adfb45bafcc01c80@lemmy.world 1 year ago
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.
troglodytis@lemmy.world 1 year ago
ADS-B antenna that feeds Flightaware, FlightRadar24, and ADSBexchange
Holzkohlen@feddit.de 1 year ago
Pi 3b to run syncthing
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Yes.
The jobs they do:
LAN print server
Running OctoPi for a 3D printer
PiHole and VPN for the home LAN
Experimenting with OpenHab
And a crappy mass storage server via USB.
thelastknowngod@lemm.ee 1 year ago
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.
MrMcGasion@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I used to have a self-built, locally-hosted power strip with individual outlet control that served it’s own interface. It was powered by a Model B+. I’ve since moved to home-assistant and zigbee plugs since my self-built solution was pretty bulky, but it was by far my longest lived Pi project.
Mateleo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
I use it for WOL on my PC
KiofKi@feddit.de 1 year ago
I have a 2 running teamspeak for gaming with my wife (separate rooms and don’t want to yell) and pihole. And a 3 hooked to a 3d printer running octoprint.
Vub@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Yes, a Pi 4 with 2GB RAM. It is running Navidrome (music server) with my music collection on a 2TB SSD connected to it. Works great.
The energy consumption at around 3-4 W, pretty neat!
turing_spider574@lemm.ee 1 year ago
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
Darkscryber@lemmy.world 1 year ago
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.
Elorie@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Home Assistant setup, along with media hosting for a hard drive full of all my music and movies.
seaQueue@lemmy.world 1 year ago
One for home assistant, one for very basic network services (dns, auth, dhcp) that I want up all the time even if I have to shut down the router+firewall. If I have to upgrade the firewall box I don’t want to be unable to print, or use smart home stuff.
dbilitated@aussie.zone 1 year ago
use it for home assistant. I’m astonished because my test install from years ago on a pi that’s around 7 years old is going with no intervention aside from updates. it’s crazy robust.
for a while my laptop was slow and I needed a test local environment rebuilding with webpack so I set up a newer pi that ran the Dev servers so my laptop didn’t choke. I’ve got a better laptop now.
KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
Home Assistant is pretty stable. The only reason you’ll run into that it’ll break is if the storage media breaks, which happens semi often with SD cards.
seaQueue@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I got around this by only booting from the SD card, the root fs lives on a $15 256GB mSATA SSD from fleaBay in a $5 USB enclosure.
AA5B@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Pi 4 running Home Assistant.
A second one sitting in a box meant to be the first of a cluster, until they disapeared
acceptable_pumpkin@lemmy.world 1 year ago
One runs Home Assistant (Pi4), and an older one runs RetroPi (Pi3) for my arcade cabinet.
I have another Pi3 that I used to use as a Steam Streaming device to put my PC games on the projector.
avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
I’m only using Pi 4 hardware:
- OpenWrt gigabit routers with SQM, multiple locations
- Home Assistant Yellow
- NAS, 8TB mirror, deprecated
PseudoSpock@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
K3’s cluster, Gitlab, Ghost, Nextcloud, Elastic stack, and some other stuff.
CoopaLoopa@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
Using a Pi3b to run AdGuard Home and a TailScale subnet router.
I’ve got another Pi3b running Octoprint/Klipper for a 3d printer, but I’m currently migrating that to Mainsail running on an old SFF PC so I can run multiple printers with Klipper off the same PC.
The rest of my stack is on an actual server running UnRaid with like 50tb raw storage.
I will say that TailScale has been annoying asf with their subnet router setup not actually forcing the correct DNS for AdGuard Home so I can have ad-blocking while away from home. I had to move back to a pure Wireguard setup directly on my router for DNS to work properly.
erre@programming.dev 1 year ago
I have four Pis. They’re running Pihole DNS & DHCP, a reverse proxy, and torrent clients. I don’t have them setup as a cluster, been meaning to look into it but I don’t want to add complexity so I’m putting it off.