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Best decision I ever made was setting up a Pi netboot server on my LAN. Now I have a whole bunch of Pi 3's and 4's scattered around my home with no local storage at all doing cool things, and I can make them boot into a completely different OS just by renaming a symlink on the server.
Best decision I ever made was setting up a Pi netboot server on my LAN. Now I have a whole bunch of Pi 3's and 4's scattered around my home with no local storage at all doing cool things, and I can make them boot into a completely different OS just by renaming a symlink on the server.
> Now I have a whole bunch of Pi 3's and 4's scattered around my home with no local storage at all doing cool things Elaborate? I have a single pi3 as a Plex server, looking for more ideas.
1. MotionEye can help set your own local security camera setup.
2. PiHole with Unbound can help setup network wide ad blocking and DNS over TLS.
3. SDR (DVB-T dongle) with rtl_433 can receive 433Mhz communication from your sensors like Fire Alarm, Gas Sensor, Car key etc. and notify you.
4. MQTT server on a Pi can act as a local notification server, MQTT client on your phone can receive notifications.
Of course, the possibilities with a SBC are endless, but I included just those projects which I feel can be implemented without much effort but provides huge lifestyle/cost-benefit improvements.
Almost all of my SBCs run from USB storage, the performance improvements over SD card are obviously night and day; but I never had success with the direct boot from USB(official methods) and had to jump from SD card to USB storage after boot i.e. having only /boot on SD card. RPi 4 being newer, I assume it's designed with USB boot in mind and perhaps USB boot might work better than earlier iterations.
(I have always assumed that the SD card had a much faster, more performant bus than USB. It sounds like that’s wrong?)
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Why? I supported 40 of them (rpi 3) as remote serial hosts and custom reboot/repower for a QA farm. Not a single one failed and don't think I had a single issue during that whole time. As far as I know it's still going just fine. It was a cheap and dependable solution. 99% of the SD card issues go away when you don't cheap out and don't go cheap. get a large card that is 32GB plus from a respectable vendor. That's no…
It is the fault of Pi hardware when it still refuses to provide a hardware shutdown button for proper file system unmounts, after all these years.
Is there some more fundamental hardware damage that occurs when USB devices are unplugged without prior warning to the device itself?
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> Now I have a whole bunch of Pi 3's and 4's scattered around my home with no local storage at all doing cool things Elaborate? I have a single pi3 as a Plex server, looking for more ideas.
Does anybody know of something that will serve up tracker and game music files (e.g. .mod, .xm, .it, and .spc, .nsf, etc.)? I'd really love to be able to use one of my Pis as a compact music server with a web interface that will on-the-fly transcode and stream these old formats. I have literally tens of thousands of these sorts of files and outside of converting them all to TBs of mp3s wouldn't mind at all to serve t…
Not a fan of Raspberry Pi. It hides behind proprietary Broadcom chip, no DSI/MIPI support and you're at the mercy of Raspberry PI for any sort of commercial implementation (RPi Zero and independent module). They do guarantee upto 2026 availability for their DIMM modules which is nice. We wanted to build commercial device using RPi but its a no go due to its blackbox nature. What they should do is to leverage their po…
After all, I don't care if there are binary blobs from a trusted vendor for the device playing retro video games -- the TV is bound to have more spyware anyway...
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It is the fault of Pi hardware when it still refuses to provide a hardware shutdown button for proper file system unmounts, after all these years.
Machines no longer degrade when the power is yanked. Any corruption caused by a mid-write devoltage event is handled gracefully by whatever modern filesystem of choice you are using, is it not? Is there some more fundamental hardware damage that occurs when USB devices are unplugged without prior warning to the device itself?
I wonder if this will help improve its status on https://www.fsf.org/resources/hw/single-board-computers , moving it out of the category of SBCs which have "fatal flaws"
Boot media isn't the problem, proprietary firmware is, and that's not changing here.
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Boot media isn't the problem, proprietary firmware is, and that's not changing here.
So where does the firmware reside? On the sd card/usb drive? Or on a chip on-board? Or somewhere else I haven't thought of?