i use the rasp pi 3+B 1 GB model to sense oil level in my oil tank. i now know oil tank level anywhere any time. Take a look at http://myoilguage.com/
that's interesting!
Raspberry Pi as a local server for self hosting applications
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Re: Raspberry Pi as a local server for self hosting applications
#212Note that if you got all excited about n8n when learning about it from this webpage, as a potential open source Zapier: n8n is not open source, despite being source available. The author goes to pretty great lengths to avoid confronting this fact. https://github.com/n8n-io/n8n/issues/40
Thanks for the heads up! Need to read about this in depth
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#213Earlier quoted context omitted.
For me its not the 30$ pc that has issues but the 10$ microsd card the os is on. I had to replace it for the third time in about 6 years now. But this is not something new of course, everybody will tell you to either use good uSD cards or put the os somewhere else, like an external hdd or so.
Many Raspberry Pi distro spend all the card’s TBW writing /var/log stuffs for no reason. It’s a known issue often attributed to “cheap microSD cards”.
Yes, just to explain why:
microSD cards (and all flash storage) has a limited number of writes. If you let your rpi write logs, you will soon run out of writable space and if you are lucky you end up with a card that is read only. If unlucky it just stops working all toghether.
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#214This is probably way better achieved by a $5/mo VPS. Benefits: - way faster - always on (presumably battery backed) - you're not responsible for disk or hw failures - better internet (faster, redundant connections) - cheaper ($60/year vs $100 upfront) - not fighting architecture differences - comes with a public v4 address - usually comes with a v6 address too Downsides: - data isn't under your control and is subject…
true, although this is an experiment and wanted to see the compatibility and benefits of having self-hosted software running in my home without exposure on the internet
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Using Emby actively right now and it’s working like a charm! Nextcloud will probably be my next experiment
Does hardware transcoding work?
wouldn't know. installed it through a .deb file, so it's certainly better suited to use the hardware than through docker probably
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#216The hardware is there (RPi + USB storage). The server software is there (NextCloud, Plex, n8n, etc). What isn't there is the plumbing. The next logical step after this blog post is making your services accessible to your phone over the public net. You'll immediately find yourself mired in domain name registration, VPS management, TLS cert management, dyndns, port forwarding, hole punching, etc etc. There are lots of…
> The next logical step after this blog post is making your services accessible to your phone over the public net. You'll immediately find yourself mired in domain name registration, VPS management, TLS cert management, dyndns, port forwarding, hole punching, etc etc.
You'll need don't need any of that with Onion Services. Tor does not only anonymize, but offers easily configurable services with NAT punching, an .onion Domain and e2e crypto for free. And setting them up is easy enough https://community.torproject.org/onion-services/setup/
You'll just need tor or a tor browser to access those services, but that shouldn't be a problem for many self-hosting setups
Re: Raspberry Pi as a local server for self hosting applications
#217The hardware is there (RPi + USB storage). The server software is there (NextCloud, Plex, n8n, etc). What isn't there is the plumbing. The next logical step after this blog post is making your services accessible to your phone over the public net. You'll immediately find yourself mired in domain name registration, VPS management, TLS cert management, dyndns, port forwarding, hole punching, etc etc. There are lots of…
For internal only things you can use Wireguard VPN and any dynamic DNS provider.
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Of course they do, but a lot of people are behind CGNAT and do not have a public IP address assigned to their CPE, and as such reaching a device in the LAN from the outside - without the device reaching out to you first - is impossible. And, of course, it can't reach out to your phone because it's also behind CGNAT. So, you need a VPS to act as a bridge between your phone and the device, which would connect to the VP…
CGNAT is a pain but if you have that type of internet connection you should just forget about hosting anything from home. Maybe ipv6 works if you're lucky, but your ISP clearly won't make it easy for you. A VPS with a VPN works but there's alternatives. Some online services provide free port forwards/port forwards for a price (ngrok style) or if push comes to shove and you only need access yourself, you can probably…
In general in the Balkans there are cable ISPs (biggest one owned by United Group for example) that give out CGNAT IP addresses to all residential cable users. You can buy a static IP address for a 5€/mo, but it's a painful procedure with bureaucracy for some reason.
On mobile networks, you are assigned a CGNAT IP address per cell base station per device, and they are then all mixed into a few public IPs. There are no ports open, and they cannot be opened, becase it is not possible to assign ports to a mobile device and have the user know which ports to use.
Because hundreds or more users share a single IP address, you'd have to randomly assign them ports and keep track of devices entering and leaving the service area to delete the port mappings, which is not economical.
Ironically, one mobile carrier - Telenor, has a "feature" where on 3G only with a certain APN they assign you a public IPv4 address to your mobile broadband interface. The only catch is that it is reachable from Telenor's network only, except on ports >10000.
Re: Raspberry Pi as a local server for self hosting applications
#219The hardware is there (RPi + USB storage). The server software is there (NextCloud, Plex, n8n, etc). What isn't there is the plumbing. The next logical step after this blog post is making your services accessible to your phone over the public net. You'll immediately find yourself mired in domain name registration, VPS management, TLS cert management, dyndns, port forwarding, hole punching, etc etc. There are lots of…
> The next logical step after this blog post is making your services accessible to your phone over the public net. You'll immediately find yourself mired in domain name registration, VPS management, TLS cert management, dyndns, port forwarding, hole punching, etc etc. You'll need don't need any of that with Onion Services. Tor does not only anonymize, but offers easily configurable services with NAT punching, an .oni…
Wow that is interesting, never thought about this usecase for Tor before, that looks like a fun project to figure out
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#220Earlier quoted context omitted.
CGNAT is a pain but if you have that type of internet connection you should just forget about hosting anything from home. Maybe ipv6 works if you're lucky, but your ISP clearly won't make it easy for you. A VPS with a VPN works but there's alternatives. Some online services provide free port forwards/port forwards for a price (ngrok style) or if push comes to shove and you only need access yourself, you can probably…
In general in the Balkans there are cable ISPs (biggest one owned by United Group for example) that give out CGNAT IP addresses to all residential cable users. You can buy a static IP address for a 5€/mo, but it's a painful procedure with bureaucracy for some reason. On mobile networks, you are assigned a CGNAT IP address per cell base station per device, and they are then all mixed into a few public IPs. There are n…
Do those ISPs with CGNAT also provide IPv6?