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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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I have several * Pie-hole and runs Nagios to collect information about things going on inside the network. * One running a PiDP-11 (pdp 11/70 emulator) as well as providing MOP service to boot my DEC terminal multiplexor (it provides the boot image when the mux comes up) * One is a stratum-1 time server using an Adafruit GPS module with PPS output. This because I got tired of both the reflection attacks and trying to…

What time series DB do you use?

InfluxDB

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

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* 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.

How have you set up your security camera? I'm looking to do this myself!

Used "Motion" for monitoring and capturing interesting video clips:

https://motion-project.github.io/

...combined with rclone to copy those to Google Drive:

https://rclone.org/

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

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* 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.

This sounds awesome! Can you share some code for it?

See my answer to beachwood23. Good luck!

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

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You could probably automate cutting the power with a relay switch also connected to the pi. Just scrape weather data, and if you expect the storm, trigger the switch.

I'm actually more concerned about lightning strikes hitting the antenna, frying the Pi, traveling down the Ethernet cable and frying my router. I'm still a ham in training but I've been told that it's best practice to disconnect the antenna and isolate it from your setup. Some hams as far as placing their connectors in glass jars. I don't want to use a relay on the antenna cable because 1) it'll pick up RF interferen…

Ground the antenna.

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

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I could actually use exactly that. Do you have a blog outlining how you did it, or the code on github by any chance?

No sadly not. I'd love to write about it but my English is just not good enough to write a compelling story. Writing it in German and then having it translated is always a bit of a hassle. But I may consider it. At the moment I have an offer of the door drive manufacturer for doing a "home story" about the solution. If that will happen, it will definitely be released in English. I will open source everything once I'm…

I've been having pretty good luck with a friend who runs stuff through Google translate, and then I (a native English speaker) fix it up to make it more natural. Might be worth a try. I bet there's plenty of people on HN for example that would do that for you.

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

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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…

> Despite many people's preconceptions about the goodness of the internet, I must admit that they do a wonderful job caring for my plant! Maybe I should create a subreddit where people can control a bot that has access to my bank accounts so they can manage my finances, invest some, etc. ;-)

A bunch of people have already done this. They're called crypto-exchanges...
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