Ask HN: How are you using your Raspberry Pi? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: How are you using your Raspberry Pi?

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Post by random_0 » Tue, Aug 02, 2022, 8:55 PM UTC

hidden-spyder wrote: post #20

random_0 wrote: post #18

I'm using pi's for these works: 1. A pi 4B running jellyfin and aria2c. I use aria to download files, torrents and stream them on jellyfin. I have a aria2 web frontend for using it from browsers. 2. A pi zero wh running pihole. 3. Another pi zero wh for nginx

Can you explain the first usecase in more detail to me? I don't understand what's different in it compared to normal downloading.

aria is a comandline download utility. Link: https://aria2.github.io/ Basically it's like idm which downloads files faster than your browsers.

Re: Ask HN: How are you using your Raspberry Pi?

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Post by Havoc » Tue, Aug 02, 2022, 9:02 PM UTC

I've got 3 of them for learning kubernetes. Another is collecting ADS-B data, and one is a backup pihole when the main server is rebooting / offline

Re: Ask HN: How are you using your Raspberry Pi?

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Post by khadgar25 » Tue, Aug 02, 2022, 9:21 PM UTC

I'm running a Roon end point using RoPieee OS[1] which is connected to my DAC and amplifier. This also allows me to do Airplay or drop any streams on it so I can listen to it either on headphones or speakers connected.

[1]: https://ropieee.org/

Re: Ask HN: How are you using your Raspberry Pi?

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Post by azalemeth » Tue, Aug 02, 2022, 9:22 PM UTC

With the digital TV hat and Kodi, it's a fantastic smart TV that has the huge advantage of not actually being a smart TV. Also, TV headend lets you stream TV or Radio to any computer you want -- it's amazingly fast and quite low bandwidth.

Re: Ask HN: How are you using your Raspberry Pi?

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Post by NoZZz » Tue, Aug 02, 2022, 9:27 PM UTC

I have a pi zero functioning as a doorbell (with camera & opencv) One pi 3 running moonlight to stream my win10 desktop (with gaming!) over ethernet to my living room tv. One pi 3 running a display in the hallway. (purpose: grafana/ip cam views/etc) One pi 3 operating a cnc machine (octoprint etc).

Re: Ask HN: How are you using your Raspberry Pi?

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Post by indigodaddy » Tue, Aug 02, 2022, 9:41 PM UTC

PiMiga! https://youtu.be/KLJk8fTjQLw

Also Combian 64 is very cool https://cmaiolino.wordpress.com/

Re: Ask HN: How are you using your Raspberry Pi?

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Post by swapsCAPS » Tue, Aug 02, 2022, 9:55 PM UTC

One running LibreElec and one as a web server running my Amsterdam ferry app https://pont.app. But the most “creative” has got to be the one that measures IAQ and CO2 in my office. It also runs Prometheus and Grafana as a front end. Custom 3D printed case for the sensors which are attached with embedded magnets.

Re: Ask HN: How are you using your Raspberry Pi?

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Post by VTimofeenko » Tue, Aug 02, 2022, 9:55 PM UTC

Across the three currently live Pis I have:

* Adblocking DNS on unbound and nsd with policies to serve different results on WG mesh

* Tiny Tiny RSS

* Gitea and Youtrack

* Some home-built apps with Grafana and Postgres

* Homechart

* Wireguard mesh for deployment and on-the-go access to those services

Everything is managed through a Nix flake and deployed through deploy-rs.

Nextcloud, Zabbix and Docspell are running on an old laptop which I plan to migrate to a Pi4 when I can get my hands on it.

Re: Ask HN: How are you using your Raspberry Pi?

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Post by dzikimarian » Tue, Aug 02, 2022, 10:03 PM UTC

Ha, nextcloud, wireguard, miniflux. All on single Pi 4B, booted from SSD. Honestly I'm surprised how much can it lift.

Re: Ask HN: How are you using your Raspberry Pi?

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Post by achairapart » Tue, Aug 02, 2022, 10:08 PM UTC

If only I could find ~30 Raspberry Pi4, I'd use them for a digital signage system. (For availability tips or suggestions, I would be very grateful!)