mine's deployed as a RIPE Atlas probe! https://atlas.ripe.net/
it earns credits by being online, and allows me to in turn measure other probes around the world to check for traceroutes and other networking stats.
Ask HN: What are you doing with your Raspberry?
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#32I bought it from friend. I am using it as a sync backup server running syncthing and I am running pi gallery 2 to serve images as a website for family viewing so that we my images don't remain stocked inside the hard disc and can be viewed by anyone in the family anytime
Pigallery2 Syncthing for 3 phones 2 laptops
Re: Ask HN: What are you doing with your Raspberry?
#33Trying to build a sand sorting machine - skittle/M&M sorting machines seem to be popular: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wL0VvoQ6kww
Re: Ask HN: What are you doing with your Raspberry?
#34- 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.
Sure! Sorry for my delayed response.
To block ads when web browsing, I find adblockers more than adequate. Eg Brave Browser on Android, or the Ublock Origin addon on desktop.
The main reason I wanted Pihole was to block ads in other situations - eg Android apps. In particular, I wanted to watch a documentary on a free video app, but the number of video ads made it intolerable.
I found Pihole did not effectively block ads in Android apps, or ads in videos. I think they must serve the ads from the same server as their content, therefore rendering DNS blocking useless.
(I will go to extreme lengths to avoid watching video ads. In this case, I actually screen recorded the entire documentary on my phone, with the ads. I could then watch it later on, but skipping all the ads)
Re: Ask HN: What are you doing with your Raspberry?
#35I 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.
Sorry for the delayed reply.
I’m just using Raspbian Bullseye. The 64 bit version.
All the apps im running are in containers, so my setup runs on anything I can get docker running on.
Re: Ask HN: What are you doing with your Raspberry?
#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
What OS are you using? I'm looking at doing similar with my pi4.
Sorry for the delayed reply. I’m just using Raspbian Bullseye. The 64 bit version. All the apps im running are in containers, so my setup runs on anything I can get docker running on.
Living up to the username ;) Thanks for replying!