I use a pi 3 to host backups from my main server via restic. I also have a pi 4 that I use as a VPN server
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I have a 2 running teamspeak for gaming with my wife (separate rooms and don't want to yell) and pihole. And a 3 hooked to a 3d printer running octoprint.
I use it for WOL on my PC
I used to have a self-built, locally-hosted power strip with individual outlet control that served it's own interface. It was powered by a Model B+. I've since moved to home-assistant and zigbee plugs since my self-built solution was pretty bulky, but it was by far my longest lived Pi project.
Mostly as kodi/plex front ends. I've set them up as a kubernetes cluster in the past but they didn't have enough ram to run my torrent client. Now I just use an old Thinkpad running talos.
Pi 3b to run syncthing
ADS-B antenna that feeds Flightaware, FlightRadar24, and ADSBexchange
I have one set up as an irrigation controller. I was going to build an OpenStack cluster to test configuration settings on (I run a production cluster at work), but gave up when the supply chain problems happened and prices skyrocketed.
pi3 once died on me so i tried pine64 sbc and they never die...so no, i wont buy pis anymore.
I run AdGuard Home (mostly for malware domain blocking and DNS caching) on my home server, and the Pi acts as a secondary DNS server. I use AdGuardHome-Sync to keep the config in sync across the two.
I have a pi zero running as a doorbell camera, alongside a couple more CCTV cameras, and a pi4 running in kiosk mode connected to my motioneye server displaying said camera streams on a crappy old TV in my home office.
That’s awesome! I’ve never heard of a pi zero being used that way.
It's actually cheaper than getting an Amazon Ring too, provided you already have mains access from an existing doorbell, and a 3d printer on hand.
I've got several for random little tasks that crop up, but main use is for the conbee II I have running the zigbee network for all the smart lights. I've got a UPS hat using some old 26650 cells for battery backup, mostly so that if power cuts off I don't run into any issues with the setup and the rare cases where I have to take the power off the server rack for whatever reason. RPi has actually been rock solid for couple years now so no issues with that side, wife approval factor has likewise been high
Also got a Turing Pi but haven't had a change to play with it too much yet. For most everything else I'm running a docker and VMs in TrueNAS, but would probably change that setup at some point..
I've got one as a Pi Hole, one as a Kodi box, and a few others I keep around as basically electronic multitools.
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:
| Fewer Letters | More Letters |
|---|---|
| DNS | Domain Name Service/System |
| HA | Home Assistant automation software |
| ~ | High Availability |
| HTTP | Hypertext Transfer Protocol, the Web |
| IP | Internet Protocol |
| MQTT | Message Queue Telemetry Transport point-to-point networking |
| NAS | Network-Attached Storage |
| NUC | Next Unit of Computing brand of Intel small computers |
| PiHole | Network-wide ad-blocker (DNS sinkhole) |
| Plex | Brand of media server package |
| RPi | Raspberry Pi brand of SBC |
| SATA | Serial AT Attachment interface for mass storage |
| SBC | Single-Board Computer |
| SSD | Solid State Drive mass storage |
| SSH | Secure Shell for remote terminal access |
| VNC | Virtual Network Computing for remote desktop access |
| VPN | Virtual Private Network |
| VPS | Virtual Private Server (opposed to shared hosting) |
| Zigbee | Wireless mesh network for low-power devices |
| nginx | Popular HTTP server |
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I used a pi 3 to host a Foundry server (TTRPG software).
I use Docker to simplify things, since I run two instances of it. Simple port forwarding setup within the docker container. the main reason I used a pi instead of my computer is so my players could access their dnd stuff all the time.
I stopped because I switched ISPs and they won't let me port-forward. My vpn supports it but the latency isn't ideal. I host the same thing through a cheap server now.
Incase you wanna go back to port forwarding, you could try ipv6! Just gotta make sure all your party members computers have ipv6 enabled
Dunno enough about ipv6, wouldn't my ISP still need to allow it?
That's my understanding, and there's no option in their locked-up router to enable it, for ipv6 either.
I have Home Assistant on one and Kodi (Libreelec) on another
I use my pi for 3dprinting management.
Testing ideas with kubernetes before moving to the POC stage
Use an old Pi 3B for running zigbee2mqtt on docker.
I used to run just the Linux version of it but decided to install docker on the Pi so it's as easy as doing docker-compose pull to update it.
This is so I can control my various lights and switches using Home Assistant.
I have 3 of the 3rd generation ones to mess around on.
I have four Pis. They're running Pihole DNS & DHCP, a reverse proxy, and torrent clients. I don't have them setup as a cluster, been meaning to look into it but I don't want to add complexity so I'm putting it off.