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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 jki275 »

jedberg wrote: post #81

A lot of folks have said "pihole". I have a linux server at home that does my DNS and a bunch of other stuff. I also have a pi3 still in the box. Would there be an advantage to me running pihole on the pi3 instead of on my linux server?

Not at all. I run the service in a VM on a windows server.

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

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Post by sergiomattei »

llamataboot wrote: post #27

1) PiHole 2) Wired one into a rotary phone to make a weird steampunky smarthouse controller (Dial '0' to turn off all downstairs lights and music, etc) 3) Various LED controls for fun, and Christmas 4) Always experimenting with MycroftAI to stay away from Alexa

This sounds so cool.

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

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Post by Gabriel_Martin »

llamataboot wrote: post #27

1) PiHole 2) Wired one into a rotary phone to make a weird steampunky smarthouse controller (Dial '0' to turn off all downstairs lights and music, etc) 3) Various LED controls for fun, and Christmas 4) Always experimenting with MycroftAI to stay away from Alexa

2 sounds amazing

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

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Post by thecodemonkey »

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 in our home office

Next project: 1x Raspberry Pi Zero W to run Unifi Controller

I have a couple of original Model B+ sitting around unused right now - just not powerful enough for any of the above projects.

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

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Post by smkelly »

djhworld wrote: post #78

I have 3 running right now 1x Raspberry Pi model B (from 2012!) - runs a reverse proxy to things in my local network, and runs a dynamic DNS service. It's showing its age as its ARMv6 and I guess at some point updates won't be as frequent so will eventually have to retire it, but it works fine for now. 1x Pi model 3 - runs various services, inc. GOGS a private git server, ZNC, a service to control my TV, a service to…

Do you have any more information or a write up on what you're doing with Twilio and voicemail? That sounds sort of interesting.

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

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Post by Kaway »

I use it for a personal project implying scraping some websites. One of these websites was behind Cloudflare (I think), and thus was blocking request from my OVH server. Therefore I used my Raspberry to do the job, on my own connection. I also put recently a Pi-hole on it.

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

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Post by warp »

1. A raspberry pi 3 on which I use git-annex to archive data on a bunch of large USB disks.

2. A raspberry pi 2 at a different location which provides off-site backups for the data archived by the first pi

3. A raspberry pi zero to run magic mirror on a leftover screen (I cannot be bothered to turn it into an actual smart mirror though)

4. And I recently added another raspberry pi 3 to play with RetroPie

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