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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?

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Post by aoeuidiue »

ordinaryperson wrote: post #316

Four things: 1. Pihole to ad block ads (useful for phone browsing) https://pi-hole.net/ 2. Custom Weather conditions dashboard, using Dark Sky's API I'd love to replace the weather dashboard with one of my integrated work / personal calendars so I could see what meetings I have each day but work won't expose that data, claims it's a security risk. 3. Custom NYC subway dashboard, showing me estimated train arrivals fo…

Have you experienced any issues using PiHole? I would imagine some apps etc would go to lengths to prevent their use. But if it works I'll set one up for my partner who plays way too many spammy games.

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Post by ridaj »

* Security camera with motion detection, which uploads clips to my personal Google Drive.

* Always-on, ssh-authenticated gateway to my LAN. I used it while traveling to tunnel through and remotely control my desktop computer which had some credentials I didn't have with me.

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Post by quux »

cr0sh wrote: post #256

I'm kinda concerned by the number of mentions here of using the Pi to run OctoPrint (I think that's right?) to remotely admin and monitor a 3D printer... I've always been of the mind that a 3D printer should never be left physically unattended - even with monitoring (via camera and such), as they can potentially start a fire if something goes wrong (failed print spewing random filament?). Is this a wrong viewpoint? A…

I mostly use OctoPrint because it gives a nice web based interface that I can access from more than just the 1 PC that used to be connected to my printer. Being able to send jobs to the printer via the network is also pretty great.

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Post by aloer »

scottlamb wrote: post #286
aloer wrote: post #260

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Moonfire NVR looks like an amazing project that I can learn a lot from for an entirely different project with streams and stuff that I’m interested in and have zero experience with! Also great that it’s written in rust Is there any way to test it without rpi/camera? If I understand the readme correctly, you store frames individually (as jpegs?) on disk and construct flexible mp4 streams on the fly. Naturally I would…

Thanks! > Is there any way to test it without rpi/camera? Without a Raspberry Pi, yes. It should run on any Unix-like OS. I've tested Linux/arm32, Linux/x86-64, and macOS/x86-64. (For the last, install ffmpeg via homebrew first.) Without an IP camera...hmm, there are probably some public RTSP live streams somewhere. Not sure offhand. > If I understand the readme correctly, you store frames individually (as jpegs?) on…

Thanks a lot, I had only seen the guide/schema document

What I’m interested in is primarily flexible mixing of different streams so I’ll definitely have a look here

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Post by Kliment »

bravura wrote: post #301

What I would pay for is: A preconfigured raspberry pi, maybe with case, that automatically saves multitrack audio from a USB card. When you plug it into a Soundcraft Signature MTK audio interface (USB soundcard), at boot it waits for sound and reads all the live input channels and saves them to disk. That way, we could record the full multitrack of our sessions very easily, and not necessarily need to have a laptop c…

I've done this for clients as part of projects (automated firmware flasher sort of stuff) but never thought of offering it as a service. People definitely do do this (I know people have done for HTPC stuff, and as VPN boxes, and for adblocking) but I haven't seen it at scale. If you're interested, email me and we can look into making it a product.

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Post by notdang »

quartz wrote: post #54

The coffee machine in our office is controlled by blockchain NFTs and a Raspberry Pi: Once authenticated, an owner of the NFT can select their coffee type on their phone which then signals the Raspberry Pi to make whatever coffee type was selected by jumping the contacts that used to be pressed by the machine's buttons (which have been removed). It's a cool gimmick, fun to show off to visitors, gives us a nice record…

What coffee machine are you using?

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Post by djhworld »

peternicky wrote: post #71

PiHole service is the only project I run on my raspberry pi. Setup is not as user friendly as we are accustomed to these days, however, with a few hours you will have a robust ad/analytics block system in place.

I've been using the docker version of pihole for a few years now

https://github.com/pi-hole/docker-pi-hole

It made the setup process really very simple for me

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Post by myhay »

quartz wrote: post #54

The coffee machine in our office is controlled by blockchain NFTs and a Raspberry Pi: Once authenticated, an owner of the NFT can select their coffee type on their phone which then signals the Raspberry Pi to make whatever coffee type was selected by jumping the contacts that used to be pressed by the machine's buttons (which have been removed). It's a cool gimmick, fun to show off to visitors, gives us a nice record…

Very similar to what we have in the office as well. The difference is that we are using bluetooth and NFC of the mobile as authentication method.

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Post by wil421 »

MikeKusold wrote: post #245
thecodemonkey wrote: post #95

1x Raspberry Pi 3 installed in my car within the internal network as a bastion box and to run software that let's my interact with the entertainment system 1x Raspberry Pi 3 running Home Assistant with a Z-Wave USB Dongle (Home Automation) 1x Raspberry Pi 3 running OctoPrint (Host/remote-control for 3D Printer) 1x Raspberry Pi 3 running FullPageOS (Full-screen Chromium in kiosk mode) displaying a server statusboard i…

> 1x Raspberry Pi 3 installed in my car within the internal network as a bastion box and to run software that let's my interact with the entertainment system Can you go in more depth about this? How did you integrate it with the entertainment system, and what do specifically do you do with it?

Seconded. Please tell us more.

I believe Ford has some open stuff you can connect a laptop to.

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