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Re: Raspberry Pi 5

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Post by peteforde »

martin_a wrote: post #311
peteforde wrote: post #266

Earlier quoted context omitted.

psst https://rpilocator.com/

not much of use for the last three years.

I am so grateful to the folks behind that site. It's the only reason I was able to track down units when I needed to buy them.

you not checking the site != people not being able to buy them

I'm not saying that it was easy, or anything like business as usual. They've done interviews where they talked about the difficult decision to prioritize companies that would go under without new stock over casual hobbyists. It's one of those unenviable situations where there's no good outcome, just a possibly less-bad one.

Re: Raspberry Pi 5

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Post by timbit42 »

000ooo000 wrote: post #101
sampa wrote: post #63

I was hoping for usb-c outputs vs miniHDMI (yeah, I know, they probably want to be compatible ith rpi4 cases, but still...)

Fyi >Will my Raspberry Pi 5 fit my Raspberry Pi 4 case? >Raspberry Pi 5 won't fit the Raspberry Pi 4 Case. We recommend the Raspberry Pi Case for Raspberry Pi 5, designed to help you get the most out of our newest computer.

I wish it was positive air flow though.

Re: Raspberry Pi 5

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Post by znpy »

PrivateButts wrote: post #62

TBH the thing I hate most about this category of SBC is the reliance on SD cards. They are both too unreliable to trust and so slow that they often bottleneck the SBC. Buying them is often a crap shoot too, I've purchased cards batches of cards from the supposed reputable manufacturers that were all over the board when benchmarked, and rarely did they hit the claimed speed spec. I would love if there was an alternati…

If an sd card is too slow and too unreliable for you, considering the full price of a raspberry pi (including case, fan, psu etc) you might be better served by some intel based small computer, like a thin client or some small form factor computer (hp, dell, lenovo have many models, that can also be acquired super cheap on ebay and similar).

Re: Raspberry Pi 5

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Post by znpy »

PrivateButts wrote: post #814
m463 wrote: post #113

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I haven't had much trouble with the SD cards. The thing is, writing to them all the time means your chances of corrupting the filesystem is higher (like any filesystem). I would try to make the filesystem read-only as much as possible. There are settings for this.

I am aware of the write endurance problems of sd cards, but I've had numerous cards that are cooked fresh out of the box, even from 'good' manufactures like Samsung. I don't like having to do binning for the manufacturer.

My experience so far is that cheap small storage (usb thumb drives and sd cards, essentially) should be bought in person from a reputable store.

Those I’ve acquired this way worked well, those I’ve brought off online stores almost always had problems or short lives (or both).

Re: Raspberry Pi 5

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Post by zucker42 »

jamesdhutton wrote: post #800

I am curious to know how people here use their RPIs today, and how the RPI5 might help. I have had a model 3 for many years, which I enjoy tinkering with from time to time. I still haven't gotten over the novelty of having such small, cheap computer that runs Linux and does a pretty good job of it. That said, all I do is tinker with it. I turn it on, write a bit of code, marvel that the code runs, and turn it off. I'…

Teams in the FIRST robotics competition community use the Raspberry Pi for computer vision. There's an open source program called Photonvision that provides an easy way for talented high school students to set up CV. Some of the better teams use Orange Pis or mini PCs for this purpose (and some of the best teams have fully custom solutions), but a Raspberry Pi is a lot easier to set up and is cheaper (even at $60). Also, my understanding is that the architecture of the RPi4 CPU/GPU allows for GPU acceleration of classical CV algorithms without copying (and that feature is integrated into Photonvision), so this hardware upgrade will probably make the Raspberry PI perform on par or better than more expensive options, while being easier to setup.

And two MIPI camera ports is also really nice for this application, because the new advancement in FRC is to use April Tags included with the field for full field localization. For this purpose, I've heard you get better results with global shutter MIPI cameras than USB webcams, and having multiple cameras is good for always seeing an AprilTag.

Re: Raspberry Pi 5

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Post by Fnoord »

brunoqc wrote: post #843
Fnoord wrote: post #391

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I use * 1 CM4 for a PiKVM on my desktop (my main home server uses a proprietary iLO). * 1 CM4 as router running OpenWrt, to replace my ER-Lite. * 3 CM4s in a Turing Pi 2, one Jetson Orin for ML. This is my homelab. The CM4 are running Dietpi. * 2 RPi4 as remote VPN (Wireguard) endpoints to do tech support for my mother-in-law and mother. Also serves as Jellyfin server containing old movies, and jumphost for NAS backu…

> 1 CM4 as router running OpenWrt, to replace my ER-Lite. CM is the computer module, right? what kind of "board" do you use the CM4 with to use it as a router?

I went with Dfrobot [1] because they also sell a case (and it is all in stock). Had the CM4 already. I wouldn't have minded another one if I could've 3D printed the case but I didn't find such. Btw, I did have to go from 3 to 2 ports.

Right now it is hooked up on my switch. I intend to put it between my desktop and my switch and run some iperf3. Because I'll get fiber soon, and I'd like to be able to saturate that.

[1] https://www.dfrobot.com/product-2705.html

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Post by arendtio »

jamesdhutton wrote: post #800

I am curious to know how people here use their RPIs today, and how the RPI5 might help. I have had a model 3 for many years, which I enjoy tinkering with from time to time. I still haven't gotten over the novelty of having such small, cheap computer that runs Linux and does a pretty good job of it. That said, all I do is tinker with it. I turn it on, write a bit of code, marvel that the code runs, and turn it off. I'…

I use my RPi4 as a small server having multiple docker containers behind a Traefik proxy. The largest applications are probably my Nextcloud and my Photoprism instance.

The Photoprism instance holds about 114.000 pictures which I took over the past 10+ years and includes features like face recognition and browsing by location. I quite like it and find it super impressive that such a small device can run such a powerful application with that amount of data.

Re: Raspberry Pi 5

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Post by MR4D »

Liquid_Fire wrote: post #932
MR4D wrote: post #808

> PCIe 2.0 x1 interface Bummer. That just killed my need for a new one. Also, if those are micro-USB ports then they have ignored everything that happened since 2020.

Are you talking about the micro-HDMI ports? Because the USB ports in the pictures are fairly clearly USB-A, except for the power which is USB-C.

Ah! Thought those were micro-USB. Thanks!

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Post by theodric »

naikrovek wrote: post #782
Dah00n wrote: post #602

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Amazon is not a good place to get prices from for a comparison. All the enshittification has ruined the prices. As it forces prices up outside Amazon too even outside prices are not useful. To do a proper comparison that doesn't include changes forced by Amazon IMO you need to look at non-US non-Amazon non-Amazon-sellers prices and work with those. Quite annoying really.

I've seen the word "enshittification" three times in three days now, and it is already rubbing my last nerve raw. we make fun of business jargon and buzzword fads, and we do it just as much as anyone else, and it sickens me.

Your exhaustion with the word mirrors my exhaustion with the practice, but ending use of the word will not quash the creeping shit

Re: Raspberry Pi 5

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Post by logbiscuitswave »

jamesdhutton wrote: post #800

I am curious to know how people here use their RPIs today, and how the RPI5 might help. I have had a model 3 for many years, which I enjoy tinkering with from time to time. I still haven't gotten over the novelty of having such small, cheap computer that runs Linux and does a pretty good job of it. That said, all I do is tinker with it. I turn it on, write a bit of code, marvel that the code runs, and turn it off. I'…

I’ve owned many Pis through the years. Always for personal/hobby stuff, but they have been workhorses all the same.

I ran a Pihole server on an ancient 1A for several years. It was considered underpowered but worked great. I’ve run Homebridge services which was a great way to integrate various IoT stuff into HomeKit that lacked native support. I’ve since moved these things onto other hardware to consolidate things (not because of anything inherently wrong with the Pi).

For about a year now I’ve been using a Pi as a BLE data collector to slurp data from a weather station I have on my deck. That being said, the onboard Bluetooth on the 3 and 4 is pretty awful in my experience. I needed to use an external dongle to make it reliable.

For over a year I used a Pi 4 to run multiple SDRs to record and rebroadcast trunked police/fire scanner traffic. I eventually had to retire it for that purpose when the trunked system changed to digital and the Pi just couldn’t keep up with the workload anymore.

Those were all applications that I ran for months/years at a time using Pi hardware. I’d consider them “serious” even though they weren’t anything impressive or enterprise-worthy.

Other things I’ve done with them are use them as emulation stations. Even older Pis are more than capable of emulating 8 and 16 bit consoles without a hitch. Their compact size makes them portable and easy to plug into a TV and work with a Bluetooth controller.

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