I've got a Raspberry Pi 4 B, what can I do with it?

I know some projects like Pi-hole and Kodi, but what super cool on Raspberry Pi 4 to install?

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Relevant post 'What can I do with a Raspberry Pi 3' :

I just got a Raspberry Pi 3. What can I do with it?

Michael Lee 🍕 ・ Feb 12 '18

#discuss #raspberrypi

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Edit of the 6 June :

The same post by @madza "What's your use of Raspberry Pi?" for more responses if you want 😎

What's your use of Raspberry Pi?

Madza ・ Oct 2 '20

#technology #hardware #raspberrypi #discuss

Tips: If you want to obtain a Raspberry Pi, check this website to see the stock across some websites, and their prices. ✨🚀

Comments

[Victor Perez]

Mine holds:
Airsonic
Transmission daemon
Amule daemon
Nextcloud
Tor
PiHole
FressRss
Wireguard
3 calibre instances (one per library)

All dockerize except for transmission (due to file administration needs).
It suffers when rebooting and when doing heavy work with nextcloud or airsonic, but for the rest, all good.

[Chris Greening]

Haven't played with mine in a while but I was usually using it for automated webscraping and simple bots

Three projects that stick out in my mind:

• Twitter bot that would watch Elon Musk's Twitter and send me a text whenever one of his tweets mentioned a particular keyword
• Bot that would enter every giveaway on a book website (usually a couple hundred a day) Had to turn that bot off because I was winning literally dozens of books and it was taking over my bookshelf 😅
• Girlfriend was looking for a pair of rollerskates during the shortage in 2020 so I wrote a bot that would watch the product listing she wanted and text us as soon as they were back in stock - it worked!

[Thomas Bnt]

Soo good projects!

[Thomas Bnt]

Oww goood usage ! 👍🚀

[Andrew Baisden]

Some great ideas here.

[Ho3ein]

Automate your home

[Ionut aka BlitzCloud]

I configured mine, for web hosting with cloudflare tunnels and ngnix. The web servers are running in docker containers. I have the 8 gb model but i will run out of storage.

[Ayan Pahwa]

Hi Thomas, you can drop by to balenaHub (hub.balena.io) an app-store for IoT projects which you can deploy on your raspberry pi 4 computer with ease. The applications on balena devices works as individual docker containers so you can host like say :

• Pi hole ad blocker
• A private VPN
• Home automation server
• NAS
• media player etc on same device.

There are a lot of projects submitted by community like converting your raspberry pi to multi-room audio streamers, or apple airplay server.

Check it out and let me know if that helps, cheers :)

[Thomas Bnt]

Ooooh I already tested Balena with Pi-hole, very simple to start the software. I recommend to using that ✨👍

[Madza]

Good topic, did a discussion on this a while ago too 👍✨

[Thomas Bnt]

Oooh yeah I already read your post. Thanks for bumped here !

[Daniel Fitzpatrick]

adguard home is a nice alternative to pi-hole. github.com/AdguardTeam/AdGuardHome

also look into slack nebula as an alternative to tailscale. github.com/slackhq/nebula

[૮༼⚆︿⚆༽つ]

As portable mini PC for a dev work where it can be hooked to a car dashboard/monitor or some random monitor when traveling. Also, scavenging a monitor from unused/broken laptop works too. Just need LVDS-to-HDMI which bridge between the monitor and RPi mini HDMI slot. As for keyboard, using smartphone or $5 mini wireless keyboard+touchpad (usually for tv box) works but it need some time to get used to this setup.