I have 3 of the 3rd generation ones to mess around on.
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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 use it for WOL on my PC
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 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.
I have a Pi4 that is running Homebridge and pihole.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
pi3 once died on me so i tried pine64 sbc and they never die...so no, i wont buy pis anymore.
Ones dedicated to being an openvpn host for my phone to be permanently connected to (pi4), and a second runs pihole + nginx as a reverse proxy into the rest of my http(s) services (pi3b+). The vpn keeps my phone behind pihole when mobile + gives access to lan only services.
The proxy being separate lets me take any of the other machines offline and the proxy will serve a 'service unavailable'/'maintenance' page instead of just timing out the connection. It serves 2-3 8mbps video streams regularly without issue.
Basically this and a HomeAssisstant server on top.
Do you have any recommendations or good to go config for openvpn+android? I used my regular setup / config and somehow the VPN client I used didn't like it. I am not sure if it's that (there are some legacy / unsupported config settings which never clients don't tend to support) or I messed up somehow.
Anyway, I would be grateful for some pointers or a link on setting up the client and server config correctly.
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.
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:
Fewer Letters | More Letters |
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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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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 use my pi for 3dprinting management.
K3's cluster, Gitlab, Ghost, Nextcloud, Elastic stack, and some other stuff.
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.
I'm only using Pi 4 hardware:
- OpenWrt gigabit routers with SQM, multiple locations
- Home Assistant Yellow
- NAS with RAID1 (mirror), deprecated
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.
I've got one as a Pi Hole, one as a Kodi box, and a few others I keep around as basically electronic multitools.
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.
Pi 4 running Home Assistant.
A second one sitting in a box meant to be the first of a cluster, until they disapeared