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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 tylerjaywood »

klambda wrote: post #553
tylerjaywood wrote: post #217

I have it set up to run a project where a subreddit has control over the watering of a live plant in my apartment. The pi runs a reddit bot that reads the votes, and can switch on a pump to water. It also collects data about sunlight, moisture, temp and humidity to help inform the decision about watering. Despite many people's preconceptions about the goodness of the internet, I must admit that they do a wonderful jo…

Did something similar. Raspberry pi is automatically uploading video of each watering to YouTube ( https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtl442fLi6KAOowkw_w83rA/vid... ) and informing me with summary (incl. watering duration, soil moisture level, temperature, humidity, light level etc.). Not that I care that much about the plant but automating it has been fun. It's been on auto pilot now for a couple of months now and the…

That's what I'm talkin' about! You should definitely come check out the sub! I'm always happy to work with other people on new additions / functionality / ideas.

Re: Ask HN: What do you do with your Raspberry Pi?

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Post by megy »

chrsstrm wrote: post #560

Outside of off the cuff experiments, most of my Pis are provisioned as MotionEyeOS[0] security cams. Each client can be linked into a central "server" so you can view them all at once, and lots of nice config options for storing or sending image and video either continuously or based on motion. I have the streaming set up so I can peek in from anywhere using VLC on my phone. [0] https://github.com/ccrisan/motioneyeos…

Do you need one pi board per camera?

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Post by loginatnine »

On my original pi, I use it to sense whether my washing and drying machine is working and sends me a notification when the load is done. It uses 2 adxl345 accelerometer with 1 pi. Instructions are on github https://github.com/jebeaudet/time-to-fold-alerter

On my rpi3, I use it for download automation with couch potato, sonarr and radarr.

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Post by Falcorian »

MisterTea wrote: post #397
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…

> Next project: 1x Raspberry Pi Zero W to run Unifi Controller Ugh, have fun with the dependency issues. An easy alternative is to run a Unifi docker image. Currently running it from a Debian VM when needed but looking to move it to an alpine vmm on my OpenBSD APU2. The Linux image is the same as the cloud key so you can roll your own cloud key and use the unifi app. Here is the image I use though there are others: h…

It is a nightmare! I just finished fighting with it this weekend.

The controller only officially supports ARM 32, and the mongoDB dependency only supports ARM 64.

In the end I I used a 64-bit Ubuntu, 64-bit mongoDB from the mongoDB repo, and downloaded the controller deb from the Unify site, which is apparently architect agnostic.

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Post by Centrino »

I'm a ham radio operator and I run a WSPR beacon using a RPi, a TAPR-QRPi shield, the WsprryPi software and a random wire antenna. The RPi generates an HF signal on GPIO_4 at around 14 MHz (20 meter short wave band), the TAPR-QRPi shield filters out the harmonics and amplifies the carrier to around 200 milliwatts. Using a 12 feet wire on my balcony I get automated reception reports from 300 to 2800 miles away.

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Post by vetrom »

With an amazing team, I'm helping run a fleet of a few hundredish pi3/3b+ and hundreds of pizero-W cameras in an evolving automotive IoT solution.

It's definitely been a challenge using them in volume, but they've been surprisingly reliable once you control for things like heat dissipation and get a decent networking solution. (At our scale we're approaching having to decide if we want to be a MVNO.)

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Post by erklik »

sparker72678 wrote: post #527

I have 13 in service right now: - Outdoor irrigation control via OpenSprinkler Pi: https://opensprinkler.com/product/opensprinkler-pi/ - Z-Wave home automation via ZWay: https://z-wave.me/products/razberry/ - 2 Custom HAVC thermostats using: https://github.com/jeffmcfadden/PiThermostat - An NTP server with GPS attached for a time source. - 2 for weather monitoring (one directly attached to sensors, one that aggregate…

>2 for weather monitoring (one directly attached to sensors, one that aggregates the data from a few sources and provides reporting)

So, I hear people doing this alot. However what exactly does this help with? Like, is the extra information really more useful than just the standard old TV weather forecast?

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