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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 dws »

zantana wrote: post #212

I was bullish when I got my first Pi to run Home Assistant (before hass.io), but got discouraged when the sd card failures were gas-lighting me by silently reverting my code changes. That and the lack of hardware clock hampering some of the diagnostic tools I usually use, kept me sticking with VMs on a NUC and a fanless Celeron for Kodi for my main compute uses. In time I have gotten more Pis, but mainly for hardware…

That 'appearing to take writes but reverting on restart' thing drove me nuts. Switched to Samsung Evo Plus SD cards. A year later, all good.

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

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Post by alistproducer2 »

I have two. The main reason I love them is I can leave them on all the time using very little power. Our would be surprised how much u can supercharge your home network by having always-on Linux boxes on it.

One runs nextcloud and serves as a nas. I use freeddns to give my nextcloud instance a legit URL for free. I use letsencrypt to host my cloud over https, again for free. The other runs emulationstation, deluge (torrent) which only runs when the box is connected to a VPN running on a vps, and serves up my movies and shows via minidlna.

I've also got some cool chron jobs that backup important stuff ((encrypted of course) to Google cloud and do some other things. I also serve up a keepass password database via webdav and do some neat stuff regarding keeping my keyfile separate fr my internet facing box but I won't get into exactly how that works.

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

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Post by jaboutboul »

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

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Post by cylentwolf »

sequoia wrote: post #374

I run a plex media server on my 3b+. The server is on the wall below my router (attached via ethernet), a 2TB HDD sits next to the server. I put movies & TV for my kids on the server, then they can watch on one of two TVs in the house via Roku. It's good for getting them off trashy Netflix movies & making classics (or what I consider classics at least) available to them. I chose this configuration rather than running…

How does the HDD connect to the pi? just via usb in an separate enclosure?

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

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Post by korethr »

ChuckMcM wrote: post #232

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…

> * One sits on my electronics workbench and runs OpenOCD and allows BlackMagic Probes to export GDB as a service over the network. That lets me debug from anywhere without burning a USB port or adding additional software.

This sounds cool and interesting. Can you elaborate on the setup and some of the ways you've used it?

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

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Post by sequoia »

cylentwolf wrote: post #485
sequoia wrote: post #374

I run a plex media server on my 3b+. The server is on the wall below my router (attached via ethernet), a 2TB HDD sits next to the server. I put movies & TV for my kids on the server, then they can watch on one of two TVs in the house via Roku. It's good for getting them off trashy Netflix movies & making classics (or what I consider classics at least) available to them. I chose this configuration rather than running…

How does the HDD connect to the pi? just via usb in an separate enclosure?

Yes.

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

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Post by evancordell »

I run OSMC[0] which is really just raspbian + kodi + updates.

Because it's just debian, I also run homeassistant in a docker container started with systemd.

I like this because:

- OSMC ensures it boots into kodi and keeps kodi up to date

- systemd/docker makes it very easy to manage my homeassistant config by scp'ing a new image over to the pi.

Nothing out of the ordinary given the other responses here, but thought I'd share because it's been an especially stable setup for me.

[0]: https://kodi.wiki/view/OSMC

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

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Post by geerlingguy »

I play around with K8s on ARM: http://pidramble.com

It's been a fun hobby project over the past 6 years, and I also do some other things like home environment (temp, PM2.5, etc.) monitoring.

I also have a few Pi Zero W's strapped to USB batteries I use for impromptu time-lapses, using a little set of scripts here: https://github.com/geerlingguy/pi-timelapse

I love being able to tinker with software/hardware easily... The Arduino and FPGA's require a deeper investment, and I like how I can do everything I want in Python on a Pi, for more hobbyist projects that don't have more power/processing constraints.

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