I got it running an OpenVPN server, love it!
Ask HN: What do you do with your Raspberry Pi?
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Re: Ask HN: What do you do with your Raspberry Pi?
#202I run a grid of about 250 Pi 2 and 3s across several offices and datacenters. They are the backbone of our graphics playback system (i.e. slates) and low latent IPTV system. Users can subscribe to any channel necessary without expensive re-encoding or RF antenna systems. I absolutely love them and 4k60 HEVC is a huge upgrade for the 4!
Re: Ask HN: What do you do with your Raspberry Pi?
#203At home: emulating old games, wifi hot spot (not needed so much these days) for hotel rooms with wired internet, and a plex server to serve videos to the kid's iPads in the car during road trips.
At work: show Grafana dashboards on our 4k monitors. Currently using model 3 which doesn't like 4k so much. I'm looking forward to upgrading to the 4 in this case, see if they are more reliable. The 3's like to crash/reboot periodically and really struggle to drive the 4k display at a decent speed.
Re: Ask HN: What do you do with your Raspberry Pi?
#204Pi Zero W running Pi Hole
Besides having to hit the reload button 10 times day or so, it works a treat
Re: Ask HN: What do you do with your Raspberry Pi?
#205I'm totally naive with Raspberry Pi..can someone comment on the following project: Is it possible to put a glass eye behind a portrait of a one-eyed pirate and make its eye move around/follow whoever enters the room? A friend has a glass eye but nothing to do with it.
Totally possible.
https://youtu.be/0o_9CHYeRvI
Make it play the Spongebob theme and you’re set.
Re: Ask HN: What do you do with your Raspberry Pi?
#206I haven't used RP before but I am planning to get one and use it as Voip server. I wanted to start with blogs but most of them are outdated.
Re: Ask HN: What do you do with your Raspberry Pi?
#207- pi hole
- NAS
- Plex server
working on
super interested in the work Nick Busey has been workingon
HomelabsOS
tons of cool stuff, lots of awesome software to install.
I have been enjoying the open source community a lot lately
Re: Ask HN: What do you do with your Raspberry Pi?
#208I use one running OpenWRT as a router. Its an old 3B, so it barely keeps up now that our internet has been updated to 100Mbps. It will soon be replaced, possibly with a pi 4. Of course, it also runs some other things.
I have OpenVPN running on it as well as a little nginx instance that I can use for reverse proxying if need be.
And the wifi turned out to be surprisingly solid as a (slow) access point, so I have sometimes used it as a Internet of Things Access Point with routing rules to keep all of those devices off the internet.
Its a surprisingly powerful little network box even with its significant limitations.
Re: Ask HN: What do you do with your Raspberry Pi?
#209I use it to take up space in my drawer of useless electronic stuff because I can never find a combination of power supply and SD card that doesn't eventually end up corrupt and unbootable.
pxe boot
Re: Ask HN: What do you do with your Raspberry Pi?
#210I'm building a CarPi. I'm using a bluetooth OBD-II adapter and Python-OBD to monitor my car's diagnostics and record them. I'm planning on adding a GPS adapter and probably a gyroscope/accelerometer so I can track location and motion at the same time. It's mostly just for fun. Maybe one day I'll add some kind of analysis to it. It might be interesting to track location, motion, and car status in order to predict mile…
Please open source this.