Just got a Raspberry Pi 3 setup and it's my first one. If you own a Raspberry Pi, what do you use it for? Don't think I'll dive into hardware stuff right now but definitely software related things.
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Check out PiCluster, a simple way to manage Docker containers on multiple hosts with monitoring capabilities. github.com/picluster/picluster
I have two. One's a TV box with LibreElec and the other runs pi-hole, an adblocking DNS service.
I use it as DNS add-block (pi-hole) and a Plex server. My pi-hole is stopping working from time to time..
I had a similar problem and discovered that the network card on the pi was going to sleep to save power. Since I ssh into my pi, that was hard to figure out, but adding a cron task to ping the router fixed it.
How often did you have to ping and/or where did you find the sleep timeout value?
Does the plex server works properly?
I installed it on the RaspberryPi but unfortunately, I never managed to watch a full movie in good conditions.
The Pi wasn't powerful enough to display the media (video file).
That's next when its project box accumulates all the parts. I think I'm almost there!
Up-vote for pi-hole, best raspberry pi use case ever.
Whoa! Thanks for the pi-hole, I have one raspberry pi sitting unused :)
Thanks for the suggestion! pi-hole seems interesting 😮
I would definitely say pi-hole. I'm running in docker container, so that I can use remaining resource for my other projects.
Right now I have about 5 device connect and it's blocking 24-29% ads traffic daily.
Mom(at home): ...
Mom(at gradpa's place):Why do I see these ads here but not at our place?.
Me: Mom, say "Thank you pi-hole".
Mom: eh?
I would deploy my hubot to my Raspberry Pi. It was perfect to host a small application like a chat bot. I haven't used many of the hardware capabilities of my Raspberry Pi yet.
When my son gets older I want to teach him how to use computers with one of my Raspberry Pis.
I use my pi as an emby server emby.media/ for my home media in conjunction with my Roku. I've loved it for the past two years. My wife says I've spoiled her into never touching our Blu Rays/DVDs ever again.
I use my Pi as an interface to different public APIs, that I access from my phone via Pushbullet.
For example: I send "train details" via Pushbullet and the Pi answers with live information, like arrival time, about my train connections.
The app is based on Node.js. For the communication I use the public pushbullet api.
That's a great use case. Would love to know more about which libraries you use for communication with public api
Thanks! I use the 'request-promise' module for sending the http requests and the 'websocket' module for the pushbullet stream.
If you don't want to dive into hardware right now, so here are some software ideas for you to build:
Coin miners with Pi? I see what you did there. ;)
I installed RetroPie on my for a retro gaming system.
I also have a Raspberry Pi 2 that I use for random little things I want running on my network. Like homebridge for making non-HomeKit things work with HomeKit and Siri.
I've got a few myself! One I've been using for years as a torrent server. I've got it hooked up to a router and NAS drive at home, then I've got a folder action on my laptop that automatically sends any .torrent files to the pi which automatically downloads them to the NAS drive for later use. It's useful in case I'm somewhere that's blocking P2P traffic.
The other one I set up at work with a couple sensors to monitor our bathroom and post whether it's occupied or not to a slack channel. I'm working on a backend for it right now for slash commands so people can make reservations 😂
Awesome
If you have a RaspberryPi, the very first thing you should install on it is Syncthing.
It will then allow you to have a personnal Dropbox installed.
I connected a 3To HDD on it and boom I have a 3To of cloud.
When you have this, the possibilities are endless.
Let's consider that you have Syncthing installed and configured on all your devices:
As you can see, I am very enthusiastic about that piece of software. :-)
But Syncthing is absolutely fantastic, open source, free and I could definitely not get rid of it and my RaspberryPi.
It cost the price of a one year Dropbox subscription for three times the volume and it works from 4 years now, like clockwork. :-)
You should definitely give it a try.
I currently have a Pi3B+ running FreeBSD 12, 3x USB thumbdrives in a RAID-Z1 configuration, running several jails, also running ZeroTier for personal VPN access. This little toy is awesome, I use it when I need remote access to something while I'm off-site, since I can just SSH into it via ZeroTier, and then SSH from there into other machines in my network.
ZeroTier looks really interesting!
What benefits does the USB thumbdrives in RAID-Z1 have?
Thanks for sharing your setup Vincent!
RAID-Z1 is similar to a normal RAID-5 setup for redundancy, but with the added benefit of it being ZFS based. This means things like instant snapshotting, creating virtual block devices (for VMs or iSCSI), and all the neatness of SEND/RECV to transfer entire file systems between machines. ZFS also is one of the few file systems that not only hashes every single block on the storage device, it also VERIFIES the block against the hash tree on EVERY read operation, ensuring data integrity (instead of waiting for total failure or SMART faults)
< and then SSH from there into other machines in my network.
How you do this? I can access my network with Zerotier, but only those clients that have zerotier installed, not the rest
1) Install ZeroTier on a laptop.
2) Then install ZeroTier on a Pi.
3) Have the Pi sitting at home. Take the laptop out of the house (I travel frequently, so this is normal for me).
4) Use the Pi's ZT address to SSH into it from the laptop.
5) While inside of the Pi's SSH session, use THAT to SSH into other nodes on the Pi's LAN.
I also use a Yubikey with PuTTY for SSH authentication. PuTTY supports agent forwarding, so my Yubikey will also allow authentication to other nodes within the network.
I have a few stuff that run on mine :
Gitea might be my favorite use, it feels great not to rely on GitHub to store my code (I often store my repos at different places for redundancy). Also Syncthing is great, you should check it out.
Cool, Gitea sounds nice! Will look into it. Thanks for the suggestions :)
-Python dev box
-Onion router
-Media server
-Backup server
Really only limit is your imagination and how much effort you want to put in
I have a few:
You could install a Hubot like someone else said, and run your own Rocket.Chat instance if you want.
Any issues with installing Kano OS on the Pi?
I want to try to install it on some old laptops my daughters use (those currently have Elementary OS)
no issues at all to install. But performance wise... meh not really good.
I'm waiting to get a Pi 3 B+, and I'm pretty sure that one will be way better.
Hi,
I build a small train information panel. This grabs the real train Infos from a particular trainstation and displays that onto a LCD display. This was build for my sons Modell train. There is a little bit hardware knowledge and programing skills needed.