My Zero W hosts a gopher site and an 'unfederated' email service.
Ask HN: How are you using your Raspberry Pi?
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Re: Ask HN: How are you using your Raspberry Pi?
#52Comment here if you're interested in learning more, but: I made an app that periodically checks the US embassy website for visa appointments and got my family a trip to my graduation just because of it!
Re: Ask HN: How are you using your Raspberry Pi?
#53I host my web projects on a pi 4 using a reverse ssh tunnel to a $5 linode box.
Re: Ask HN: How are you using your Raspberry Pi?
#54I have a super old pi 1b connected to a small screen that just randomly plays Conway's game of life every couple of minutes.
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#55With 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.
For whatever reason I only had problems with Kodi on a Pi. Crashing, slow, ... Using it as app within an android stick now without bigger issues.
Pi 4+ with case was about $100, the stick only $40
Re: Ask HN: How are you using your Raspberry Pi?
#56Comment here if you're interested in learning more, but: I made an app that periodically checks the US embassy website for visa appointments and got my family a trip to my graduation just because of it!
Interested!
Re: Ask HN: How are you using your Raspberry Pi?
#57I won mine in a quiz competition, so I didn't have any special project thought out for it beforehand. I ended up using it as a piano synth: running Pianoteq and hooking it up to a digital piano, it gives much better sound than the digital piano's built in sound (and far more flexibility).
I was worried about latency, and that I would have to overclock it (the guides I read on the net suggested I would have to). Latency was a problem in the start, when using the Pi's built in audio jack, but once I switched to an external sound card the latency vanished. Didn't even have to overclock it, though I added a couple of cooling ribs just in case.
Re: Ask HN: How are you using your Raspberry Pi?
#58I am lucky enough to have four Pi's, although only three of them are actively used:
- a Pi 4 8GB which runs Home Assistant along with Zigbee bridge, and PiHole - a Pi 4 4GB used to debug/flash my Precursor[1] - a Pi 3A+ currently in search of a use-case, after being used for a university research project - a Pi Zero 2WH for Pwnagotchi :-)
I was able to snatch the Pi 4 4GB and the Zero 2WH at very good prices by connecting the excellent RPILocator[2] to IFTTT (not sponsored :-)
[1]: https://betrusted.io/ [2]: https://rpilocator.com/
Re: Ask HN: How are you using your Raspberry Pi?
#59i am using mine as gateways into my networks.
All deployed with wireguard and traefik and authelia to let me login to anything with 2fa if i want it exposed, got tired of the very bad solutions some companies like synology provides with 2fa and dyndns.
no firewall ports just plug it in and ready to go in a second, and i use ssd's instead of sd cards for speed and reliability. Works without thinking about it for at least 1 year now.
Re: Ask HN: How are you using your Raspberry Pi?
#60With 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.
For whatever reason I only had problems with Kodi on a Pi. Crashing, slow, ... Using it as app within an android stick now without bigger issues. Pi 4+ with case was about $100, the stick only $40
I run openELEC on a RPi3 without issues, apart from the fact that pushing large files to the Pi is really slow (3-5 MB/s).