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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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- pihole

- piVPN

The piVPN story is interesting. I am currently stationed outside my home country. Using the financial apps (bank apps, wallet apps) outside the country are restricted hence I needed a ip within the country. No major VPN provider provide IPs for my country. piVPN has been great in that sense to access the contents from my country.

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

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Not very creative but definitely useful, I turned an old USB inkjet printer/scanner into a networked device. I can now print from my phone or scan documents from any computer.

I did not want to have it powered on all the time, so I wrote a simple udev rule that shutdowns the Pi when the printer is turned off.

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

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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 ma…

cool.

do you know why does the fire scanner uses a computer voice? they use text message that are read or something like that?

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

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I had a lot of fun getting all the bit twiddling right for using a Max 7291 as a display board: https://github.com/dylanowen/display-board-pi https://github.com/dylanowen/bart-pi

Before I moved to home assistant I also automated my lights using my Pi: https://github.com/dylanowen/nanoleaf

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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 ma…

cool. do you know why does the fire scanner uses a computer voice? they use text message that are read or something like that?

Not sure how they do it but any time there's a fire/EMS emergency that's what plays in the station...then the human dispatcher responds to whatever units say they're going to the emergency

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cool. do you know why does the fire scanner uses a computer voice? they use text message that are read or something like that?

Not sure how they do it but any time there's a fire/EMS emergency that's what plays in the station...then the human dispatcher responds to whatever units say they're going to the emergency

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

#28

- 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 Linu…

Would you mind sharing with use why you no longer use it as a PiHole? Is there some major disadvantage or problem with it? I ask this because I've been considering getting a Pi for a Pihole.

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

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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…

Thanks!
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