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Do any of you use Raspberry Pi’s ? (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Not much love here for the Pi Zero W. I love them for being so flipping cute. I have a couple I use when I am learning a new system admin tool or service and I need to be able to let it run undisturbed to observe stability and function.

Lately I am learning MQTT so am using one as a broker to manage some homemade smart devices.

If I can ever find one in stock, i want a couple of Zero 2 for similar projects that would benefit from the extra oomph.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't buy any pis because they are $100+ in Canada.

Remember when it was supposed to be a cheap computer? Ya..

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Have you checked recently? According to the rPi locator, they’re starting to be available again

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Just checked. All of the "cheap" ones require you to order 2+, and then have insane shipping costs. The rest are $100-120 CAD.

I don't think these things will ever be affordable. People who want one badly, will pay the money, and everyone knows it. No need to sell them at MSRP.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I have a Zero with a macropad attached. Key presses are then sent to Home Assistant through MQTT. The zero is perfect for it, small and low power.

Still wondering what to actually do with my Zero 2.