Pi 4 running Home Assistant.
A second one sitting in a box meant to be the first of a cluster, until they disapeared
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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.
I have Home Assistant on one and Kodi (Libreelec) on another
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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Home Assistant setup, along with media hosting for a hard drive full of all my music and movies.
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.
1 Pi 4 for two things
- Download media over a persistent VPN that auto-moves to my NAS
- 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
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.
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
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!
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.
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 currently have Pi-hole and Unbound running on my pi4
I have a Pi4 that is running Homebridge and pihole.