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I use my Raspberry Pi 3B+ as an AdGuard Home server, as an OpenVPN server, to wake my PC via WoL, plus as just a basic Linux box that's on my home network that I can remote into from anywhere.
I've been looking to set up something like this, do you have a static IP or use an external server you could recommend?
I have a rpi3 installed in my truck that acts as a media player. It also reads my OBDII so I know how my engine is running and other diagnosis information. I also use it to map wifi/bluetooth spots and other random data as I am driving.
Using the same technique, games can also be streamed to PlayStation 3 and original Xbox.
I added some additional support for Xlink Kai so that you can play LAN enabled games over the Pi’s WiFi connection by plugging a compatible game console into the Ethernet port of the Pi or by connecting to an access point that is auto created when a secondary WiFi dongle is attached to the Pi.
I learned that there are usually a hundred or so people in South America who play Halo 2 using Xlink Kai and this makes it very easy to connect to them for lag free multiplayer on original hardware. This feature also works on Nintendo Switch and PSP with a bit of extra work.
The project is open source and [available as a flashable SD image on Github](https://github.com/toolboc/psx-pi-smbshare).
Youtuber VersatileNinja recently published a detailed video on [how to get started with the project](https://youtu.be/Ilx5NYoUkNA) if anyone is interested in taking it for a spin.
I was bullish when I got my first Pi to run Home Assistant (before hass.io), but got discouraged when the sd card failures were gas-lighting me by silently reverting my code changes. That and the lack of hardware clock hampering some of the diagnostic tools I usually use, kept me sticking with VMs on a NUC and a fanless Celeron for Kodi for my main compute uses. In time I have gotten more Pis, but mainly for hardware…
I've got 5. I only actively use 3 of them. 1. Media player connected to projector running RasPlex - this software is outdated enough and buffers on some high bitrate content that I should buy a replacement device, but it still works well enough. I tried upgrading to a newer raspi and wasted an hour trying to get it to run, then gave up. So, I still use my old one. It still gets used daily and works well enough (only…
I have one set up as a sprinkler timer ( https://github.com/callahanrts/sprinklers ). Scheduling my sprinklers with cron jobs gives me a lot more flexibility over water times. It also runs a local webserver so I can turn a zone on for just a few seconds when I'm fixing a leak.
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You can also get a small automatic fire extinguisher like they have for grow rooms and over stoves to help mitigate. Having that in an enclosure with some leds and a webcam would be a decent mitigation. Checking in on the print every now and again is a good call too.
I've heard that purging the 3D printer with e.g. CO2 gas is something that you can do to improve layer adhesion. It should be sufficient to prevent fires also? Seems most plastics have a limiting oxygen concentration of around 16%. Purging from 21% down to, say, 15% requires that one adds 40 L of CO2 (at STP) to dilute a 100L chamber. Your typical 2.6 kg small CO2 bottle that people use for home-brew beer kegs would…
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If yours has wi-fi (Pi 3 and above or Pi Zero W) you can always just leave it plugged in somewhere innocuous as a pi-hole. It's super useful and takes almost no time to set up, provided you can change the settings on your router to use it as DNS.
I'm scared that if the pi is down then the whole internet is down (i'm not always home with my family, so if I'm away I couldn't fix it). How do you manage failover ?
One option would be to set up two Pis, and distribute both IPs in DHCP. If one is down, or can't resolve, clients will fall back to the other one. The chance of both being down at once (unless it's something that takes your network down) seems low, and the cost of a Pi Zero W (~$10) wouldn't add much.