For those of you who use Raspberry Pi’s in your home environment, I’m curious as to what you use them for. What applications are you running on them? Do you have your Pi’s setup in a cluster?

  • Dandroid@dandroid.appEnglish
    331·
    1 year ago

    I own a raspberry pi 4. Every time I try to use it, I spend half my time trying to fix the stuttery/non responsive UI by fucking with the compistor and such. And then I give up.

    I eventually got a new gaming PC and turned my old one into a Linux server, and haven’t really touched my Raspberry Pi since.

  • ᓰᕵᕵᓍ@lemmy.mlEnglish
    26·
    1 year ago

    RPI4/400 is perfectly capable as a little home server. All it needs is a good SD card.

    Owntracks,photoprism,monocker,brave go m-sync,libre photos,wallabag,radicals e,Baikal,Firefox sync,Joplin web,webdav server,jellyfin,vaultwarden,wireguard

    • ByteWizard@lemm.eeEnglish
      101·
      1 year ago

      Get an eMMC module ($10) for the Pi or buy something similar with one built-in. Much faster and more reliable.

          • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
            4·
            1 year ago

            https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08MJ3CSW7

            This is my case! It only takes SATA m.2 drives, which which I also had a spare of sitting around!

            So now I have this badass SSD pi4 4GB and all it does is share a 5TB hard drive between all my computers through OMV.

            I need to learn how to do a docker. I HAVE FAILED at docker and Portainer. All I want is to have it also torrent through a VPN.

            Edit: OH AND I FORGOT it turns your rubbish mini HDMI bullshit ass dick connectors into REAL HDMI

    • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Hmmm, I’m just using OMV on mine to make it a server that I can use to transfer files around my house.

      Do you have any tips on where I could get started doing more? I haven’t had success with Docker or Portainer and I’d love to have some software hosting files like OMV, and a torrent client running through a VPN in another container.

    • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      I’m running an Argon for that sweet SSD action as well!

      I’m only using OMV right now and it works, but I’d LOVE to get a container with torrents via VPN… I can’t do it, though. I’m awful at it. Do you have any resources on how to set up Portainer? It changed recently, and was a weeeeird process to set up in OMV.

  • YIj54yALOJxEsY20eU@lemm.eeEnglish
    12·
    1 year ago

    Lets see…

    • nord vpn client
    • qbittorrent (through nord vpn)
    • proxy server (through nord vpn)
    • wireguard vpn server
    • ssh client so I can port forward through the vpn server to/from connected clients
    • jellyfin
    • ntfy (self hosted notifications)
    • pi-hole (vital for the local dns)
    • nginx
    • gitea
    • wallabag
    • minecraft server
    • container registery
    • smb share for my friend (I help them with content creation)
    • smb share for a live recording profile I set up on android

    Those are just docker containers, it also is a backup server for all the devices I own. It also runs all non sensitive data on an unencrypted partition then will auto decrypt the sensitive partion through ssh via my desktop. This means my vpn server will always run so I can connect, wake on lan my desktop, decrypt it and log in. Im sure I’m missing things.

    • notfromhere@lemmy.oneEnglish
      21·
      1 year ago

      My list is very similar but I have my Pis in a k3s cluster with a NAS for PVs. That allows me to not worry about what physical device is hosting the service, and I built it so I can intermix amd64 devices when I start adding in my used laptops into the mix.

  • a_fancy_kiwi@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    1 year ago

    I have one pi (rpi 4b) that I still use. I have it in an Argon One V2 case for the daughter board that lets me boot from an M.2 SATA SSD. I got tired of the corrupted SD cards. It’s actually reliable now.

    Anyway, I mainly only use it because in the event of a power outage, as soon as power is restored, it automatically turns on. If I’m not home, I can SSH back into my network and send a WoL packet to my actual server to turn it back on.

    The pi also runs:

    • Scrypted so I can view my ring cameras in the Apple Home app and so I get the “someone is at the door” notifications on my Apple TV
    • Pi-Hole
    • Pi-VPN
  • Kaldo@kbin.social
    9·
    1 year ago

    I feel old, I don’t understand 90% of words in this thread lol.

    I just have kodi on Libreelec with a jellyfin plugin on my rpi4 and even that struggled with overheating at times. So I run most stuff on my pc instead. I’m tempted to try the portainer to get some experience with docker tho.

      • notfromhere@lemmy.oneEnglish
        21·
        1 year ago

        I have k3s running on my Pi cluster and have dozens of services running on them. USB drives for the lot of them.

        • buzz@lemmy.world
          11·
          1 year ago

          Could u share some details about your setup? I really want to try kubernettes maybe this is my sign from the universe

          • notfromhere@lemmy.oneEnglish
            11·
            1 year ago

            Sure! I’m using ansible to manage the hosts, install k3s, and deploy the manifests. I’m looking at switching to nixos for reproducibility purposes. I have a couple Pi 4’s, and a handful of Pi 3Bs. Each one is booting off USB drives (Pi 4s have SSDs and others have thumb drives). Then I have an old computer I turned into a NAS server that is hosting NFS for the PVs of each pod. Then I have a rackmount gigabit switch, and I set up tailscale on each node, and reference everything by the tailnet names. Works really well and I have complete access while I’m away from home.

            Edit: oh yea my NFS server is also hosting a docker server. My ansible stages the docker containers to the local docker server then each pod pulls from the local server to save on bandwidth and if internet goes down I can still do everything locally.

      • Kaldo@kbin.social
        1·
        1 year ago

        Really? I’ve seen threads with people claiming to run dozens of services on it. What do you recommend instead, just any rpi OS and installing them like I would on regular linux?

  • cestvrai@lemm.eeEnglish
    8·
    1 year ago

    I have a Pi4 running octoprint, pi-hole and some of my own containers.

    The rest I run on a Hetzner VM.

  • thatsnothowyoudoit@lemmy.caEnglish
    7·
    1 year ago

    Cluster of Pi4 8GBs. Bought pre-pandemic; love the little things.

    Nomad, Consul, Gluster, w/ TrueNas-backed NFS for the big files.

    They do all sorts of nifty things for us including Nightscout, LanguageTool OSS, monitoring for ubiquiti, Nextdrive, Grafana (which I use for home monitoring - temps/humidity with alerts), Prometheus & Mimir, Postgres, Codeserver.

    Basically I use them to schedule dockerized services I want to run or am interested in playing with/learning.

    Also I use Rapsberry Pi zero 2 w’s with Shairport-sync (https://github.com/mikebrady/shairport-sync ) as Airplay 2 streaming bridges for audio equipment that isn’t networked or doesn’t support AirPlay 2.

    I’m not sure I’d buy a Pi4 today; but they’ve been great so far.

      • Random_Character_A@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        1 year ago

        Wireless Z-wave module, door sensors, fire alarm, motion sensors, hidden on/off switch. Raspberry itself works as the camera and has motion detection if needed. Event notices are sent using xmpp.

        • SirEDCaLot@lemmy.fmhy.netEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          Very interesting. So you basically have an alarm system in software then? What do you use for software? Do you have an arm/disarm function?

          • Random_Character_A@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            1 year ago

            Raspberry Z-wave module came with rudimentary software, that was just awful. Documentation and debug tools were utter crap and I never want to do that kind of trial and error bs ever again.

            I basicly use the software to pass trigger events to linux and handle the timing and remote UI. Linux commandline clients then handle sending messages, capturing images/video and sending captured material to a cloud server.

            Software allows remote control through webpage, that you can access either directly in LAN or through an obscure server that uses reverse SSH to get past your firewal.

            I blocked the shady SSH connection and only use it directly through my VPN.

            • SirEDCaLot@lemmy.fmhy.netEnglish
              2·
              1 year ago

              I assume by “Raspberry Z-Wave module” you mean the RaZberry z-wave addon board, and I couldn’t agree more. I tried to get that thing going with another home automation package and gave up after a few hours of fucking with it.

              That said, these days I’m using Home Assistant on a RPi with a Nortek z-wave/zigbee combo radio USB interface and I couldn’t be happier. If you’ve never used HA it’s worth trying out; used to require a lot of scripting but now it’s a beautiful and polished system that has all the tweakability a nerd wants with a nice high-WAF GUI. They have a plugin that does exactly what you’re doing and makes a virtual alarm system out of existing sensors.

              I also agree block connections and use a VPN to access it, I do the same thing.

  • Valmond@lemmy.mindoki.comEnglish
    6·
    1 year ago

    I made a python soft that uses the pi camera and scans qr codes, and plays the playlist that’s on the eventual qr code. Just show the album and it plays.

    But they have become so incredible expensive, and banana pis etc just doesn’t work that well, so I just stopped the whole Raspberry Pi craze.

    Today I just collected a 55€ Lenovo thinkcenter (like 18cm squared x 3.5cm) with a quad core, 8GB/256GB. I think it will replace my next rpi quite well and when it breaks, I can get another one quite simply.

    If I want to do more to the metal electronics stuff, I’ll just use a 2560 Mega or an esp8266 or similar.

  • NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    1 year ago

    I have one Pi 4b for my Homeassistant. It is fixed to a wall, next to the routers, running 24/7.

    I did not want to include this on my other Homeserver to avoid the dependency.

    • WaterSword@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      This is basically my setup except I don’t have any other homeserver stuff yet :) (I will once I build my new gaming pc, planning to use my old one for that stuff)

  • DeltaTangoLima@reddrefuge.comEnglish
    5·
    1 year ago

    I used to run pretty much all my workloads on Raspberry Pis, mostly in docker containers. I’ve since moved over to some ex enterprise servers and Proxmox, so I really only have a couple of Pis left in service, running:

    • Frigate: nvr for my IP cameras
    • exim: mail relay server for my stuff to be able to email out (nothing in)
    • Wireguard: outbound VPN server connected to Mullvad
    • Pi-hole: 2nd instance for redundancy, also runs cloudflared (for DNSoHTTP) and pihole-exporter (for putting Pi-hole stats into Prometheus)
    • Mosquitto: because I haven’t moved it yet
    • Prometheus: ditto
  • Juja@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    1 year ago

    I use it as a media remote for my computer via infrared. IR sensor sends analog data to an arduino which converts it to digital and sends it to a raspberry pi which then invokes commands to control media on my computer by invoking rest apis on a “unified remote” server running on the computer.