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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] 2 points 1 year ago

I have a Raspberry pi 1b that runs adguard home and a VPN server

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

I have a Turing pi V2, currently with only one CM4 module in it, running some *arrs, paperless, smb and some monitoring.

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

That’s awesome! Turing Pi has always fascinated me.

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

One Pi Zero 2W runs NodeRed to control a few lights in the house. Another used to run Octoprint until it recently stopped responding. I haven't gotten around to troubleshooting it yet.

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

All the arrs, HA, pihole and a few smaller containers running on pi4. It was my gateway into the world of self hosting.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm only using Pi 4 hardware:

  • OpenWrt gigabit routers with SQM, multiple locations
  • Home Assistant Yellow
  • NAS with RAID1 (mirror), deprecated
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yes.

The jobs they do:

LAN print server

Running OctoPi for a 3D printer

PiHole and VPN for the home LAN

Experimenting with OpenHab

Portable Kodi box.

And a crappy mass storage server via USB.

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

I use a Pi4 to run one of my HAproxy nodes. It does die once in a while from not enough power because my power brick is pretty old at this point. Other than that its great. I used to have a cluster of Pi3's bit I'm transitioning cluster managment systems so they aren't doing anything right now. I recently got a Lichee pi and that will most likely replace them once I get it all working.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I currently have Pi-hole and Unbound running on my pi4

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

Home Assistant setup, along with media hosting for a hard drive full of all my music and movies.

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

One for pihole

I used one in the past for Unify Controller but it broke

Another one is a USB wifi hub to control my telescope equipment remotely.

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

1 Pi 4 for two things

  1. Download media over a persistent VPN that auto-moves to my NAS
  2. Fun play toy as a dev box to test new tech and try to stay current and keep my Linux skills sharp since I use osx at work

1 ends up blocking 2

I really want to buy like 5 or 6 with temp sensors to put around the house to see how good my heating/ac are working, and confirm wifi strength

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

Yes, a Pi 4 with 2GB RAM. It is running Navidrome (music server) with my music collection on a 2TB SSD connected to it. Works great.

The energy consumption at around 3-4 W, pretty neat!

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

Using a Pi3b to run AdGuard Home and a TailScale subnet router.

I've got another Pi3b running Octoprint/Klipper for a 3d printer, but I'm currently migrating that to Mainsail running on an old SFF PC so I can run multiple printers with Klipper off the same PC.

The rest of my stack is on an actual server running UnRaid with like 50tb raw storage.

I will say that TailScale has been annoying asf with their subnet router setup not actually forcing the correct DNS for AdGuard Home so I can have ad-blocking while away from home. I had to move back to a pure Wireguard setup directly on my router for DNS to work properly.

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

I have a water container I need to take care of in my house. An ultrasonic sensor hooked to my raspberry 3b uploads the collected data to my vps that later serves an html through Flask to show the water level. It has a few alarms so that I can take action at the appropriate time. The ultrasonic sensors HC-SR04 suck and I have to replace them quite frequently. Other then that it works really well.

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

I have a 4 meg Pi 4b running Pi-hole and Mini-DLNA. It’s rather under-utilized for those tasks, but it serves them quite well.

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

I have a single Raspberry Pi 3b as a local file/media server running Jellyfin. I'm also running BOINC and seeding torrents of various Linux distributions. External HDD for storage, plus a thumb drive for the local media and another for the torrents so it only has to spin up when someone's actually using it.

It's not super-fast by any means, but it's fast enough to listen to music over my LAN, which is the main thing I need it to do quickly. Though eventually I plan on setting up a better NAS on something with faster I/O.

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

I have been for about a year with one 8gb Pi 4 with a 500gb ssd. I bought it as a way to dip my toes into self hosting. Started with Home Assistant OS, but now I have a bunch of containers set up, such as Home Assistant, Plex, Sonarr, Radarr, Prowlarr, qbittorrent, and a few others. I will eventually get something a little beefier to host my media, but will absolutely keep the Pi running.

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

I only have one that's hooked up to my 3D printer for Octoprint. I'd like to set up another one as a SDR, but I leave my app hosting to more powerful machines.

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

Pi 4 running Home Assistant.

A second one sitting in a box meant to be the first of a cluster, until they disapeared

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

I have a Pi4 that is running Homebridge and pihole.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I have a couple of Pis, but currently only using the Pi 4 which is my Kodi box (LibreELEC). I planned to use my older Pi 3B as a web server, but I also have Proxmox on a NUC running as my main home server, so I don't know if there's any advantage to using the Pi at this point.

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

I have a Pi 3 running Home Assistant. I also have two Pi Zeros that I have MP4 Museum installed.

I use MP4 Museum to run projected Halloween decorations mostly but it's great to have a little box that will take a video file from a thumbdrive and dump it out the HDMI port on boot.

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

K3's cluster, Gitlab, Ghost, Nextcloud, Elastic stack, and some other stuff.

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

One runs Home Assistant (Pi4), and an older one runs RetroPi (Pi3) for my arcade cabinet.

I have another Pi3 that I used to use as a Steam Streaming device to put my PC games on the projector.

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

use it for home assistant. I'm astonished because my test install from years ago on a pi that's around 7 years old is going with no intervention aside from updates. it's crazy robust.

for a while my laptop was slow and I needed a test local environment rebuilding with webpack so I set up a newer pi that ran the Dev servers so my laptop didn't choke. I've got a better laptop now.

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

One for home assistant, one for very basic network services (dns, auth, dhcp) that I want up all the time even if I have to shut down the router+firewall. If I have to upgrade the firewall box I don't want to be unable to print, or use smart home stuff.

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