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Ask HN: What are you doing with your Raspberry?

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Re: Ask HN: What are you doing with your Raspberry?

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Post by snailmailman »

I have a pi4 that is a small server for random things. Primarily it runs pihole and HomeAssistant, but also runs several other small servers. Vaultwarden for passwords. Atuin for shell history sync. Resilio sync for photo backup. Few other small things but that’s most of it. All of the services are accessible anywhere through tailscale, even if I’m not home. That’s most useful for HomeAssistant and Vaultwarden. All of the web sites hosted on it happen over HTTPS too.

Everything on it except for atuin is running as docker containers. I think either the drive or the usb connector I’m using is kinda flakey. So I try to keep everything as portable as possible. I can backup and move all of the containers elsewhere pretty easily if i have to.

Running a personal cloud like this is great. Tailscale makes the networking part a piece of cake. And a few containers through docker-compose isn’t super hard either.

I think I got lucky getting a pi 4 on release pretty cheap. But the arm64 support is great, and I think some of the containers I’m using only worked because of that. Not sure if the other pis support that or not

Re: Ask HN: What are you doing with your Raspberry?

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Post by tastysandwich » 

  - Media center
  - Transmission seedbox
  - Zoneminder (security camera monitoring)
Ones I no longer use:

  - Pihole
  - Grafana dashboard of temperatures of other Pis
I also built an exhaust fan into a drawer so I could keep them all crammed in without overheating. Hence the Grafana dashboard above.

A few years ago I built a project that used wifi to count the number of devices in a given area.

You could set up a basic Linux distro on it, put video game emulators on it so they can experience all the old LucasArts classics.

Re: Ask HN: What are you doing with your Raspberry?

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Post by em3rgent0rdr »

For many years I used raspberry PIs running Kodi (previously named XBMC) as myth-tv frontends to play recorded TV shows to the old but still-functional CRT TVs I had to give them many extra years of longevity.

But eventually we gave into the subscription TV services and so took the CRTs to the recycling center (even though they still worked) and then the raspberry's went back into the drawer.

Re: Ask HN: What are you doing with your Raspberry?

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Post by yooo000 »

I run combine1090 (and was able to send Pi's to friends all over the US to send me their ADS-B data too!). Check out https://radar.airport-frequencies.com Also have it running op25 (trunked radio systems) for a real-time police/fire scanner that refreshes every time a new transmission is recorded and displays on another subdomain. Check out https://ducomm.scanner-frequencies.com

As far as "girl" projects...I think maybe it's more of an age thing rather than a gender thing (both boys and girls would dig working with a Pi) - I think the age matters more because there could be a learning curve involved

Re: Ask HN: What are you doing with your Raspberry?

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Post by zeagle »

I gave one away and another is gathering dust. For projects what about a small eink picture frame, updating chore list, or a message. The idea is that they can change from another computers browser to leave messages for each other or their parents. Building off another idea you could make something that shows where the plane flying overhead is from and to, although depending on the age and interest of the girls that might not be particularly too interesting.

Re: Ask HN: What are you doing with your Raspberry?

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Post by illwrks »

snailmailman wrote: post #12

I have a pi4 that is a small server for random things. Primarily it runs pihole and HomeAssistant, but also runs several other small servers. Vaultwarden for passwords. Atuin for shell history sync. Resilio sync for photo backup. Few other small things but that’s most of it. All of the services are accessible anywhere through tailscale, even if I’m not home. That’s most useful for HomeAssistant and Vaultwarden. All o…

What OS are you using? I'm looking at doing similar with my pi4.
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