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Re: Raspberry Pi 5

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Post by Renaud »

firemelt wrote: post #3

anyone could tell me how did you use raspberry pi?

An older one as a PiHole for my home.

A Rpi3 as an octoprint server for my 3D oeubter, including canera feed.

A friend uses his as a HomeAssistant server to monitor and manage his home lights, temperature and garden watering needs.

And I have one as a nifty remote KVM (TinyPilot) that we also use for work. Connect it to the Internet and a PC and you can control that machine remotely.

Also use it as a Windows RDP thinclient.

And to tinker on electronic projects.

Re: Raspberry Pi 5

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Post by fulafel »

cptskippy wrote: post #27
nixarn wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Mine's reading temperature, humidity and pressure from sensors and uploading it to a VPS. My second one that is, my first one hasn't done more than collect dust.

You can do that with the lowly ESP8266. https://imgur.com/a/UhL4OuD

Cool stuff.

Connectivity can tilt towards RPi, you can do vpn, ipv6, mobile data (if you use a usb stick), ethernet etc.

Re: Raspberry Pi 5

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Post by justusthane »

firemelt wrote: post #3

anyone could tell me how did you use raspberry pi?

RPi 4:

  - VPN server (Wireguard)
  - Network ad blocking (Pihole)
  - DNS resolver (unbound)
  - DynamicDNS client
  All running in Docker containers.
RPi 3:

  - Home Assistant for home automation.
I also have a Pi Zero that I intend to use to drive an e-ink screen for a wall-mounted display, but I haven't set that up yet.

Previously I've also used the RPi 3 running AirPlay and hooked up to external speakers as a poor man's Sonos.

Re: Raspberry Pi 5

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Post by keyle »

This is exciting. I wish this would work without a fan, just with a good cooling system.

I say this because I love the idea of a full linux computer without a fan. I'm loving the Apple silicon machines at the moment for this. Perfect silent computing.

I wish it came as well in a larger board, with proper HDMI ports. There is a market for silent linux machines, I think!

What would be your dream linux fan-less setup?

Re: Raspberry Pi 5

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Post by liminalsunset »

gholling wrote: post #20
liminalsunset wrote: post #17

The fins on the active cooler are the wrong orientation (the fan is blowing at the flat sides instead of along it). I'm curious why it was designed this way when so much effort was put into using a proper 4 pin blower fan and header. It will probably work fine but it's something you notice just like how Dell put the heatsink on the IDRAC card in the R420 the wrong way, which would have significant impacts on airflow…

Because manufacturing... Otherwise you have to CNC the whole thing and it makes it really expensive.

I suppose you have a point. It was probably extruded along the fins like this (coming straight in/out of screen):

__|||||||___(fan)____

Then they would have to CNC the edges off to create the mounting ears anyway and cut the slots in the fins. I suppose they could just make the gaps larger but this is probably getting into the details...

Re: Raspberry Pi 5

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Post by kristopolous »

firemelt wrote: post #3

anyone could tell me how did you use raspberry pi?

It's my Wi-Fi hotspots, gateway, and network servers. I've got more powerful machines but it can route packets, serve http requests, manage dhcp, simple things like that without problem.

I use a USB 3.0 Ethernet cable for the second port. It can keep up just fine.

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