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submitted 1 year ago by atomWood@lemm.ee to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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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[-] KiofKi@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

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.

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

[-] flustered@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I use my pi for 3dprinting management.

[-] digger@lemmy.ca 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.

[-] Mateleo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago

I use it for WOL on my PC

[-] ninekeysdown@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Testing ideas with kubernetes before moving to the POC stage

[-] merikus@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I have a Pi4 that is running Homebridge and pihole.

[-] thelastknowngod@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] karx@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I'm running a Pi Zero W as a network extender!

[-] chepox@sopuli.xyz 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.

[-] Holzkohlen@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

Pi 3b to run syncthing

[-] troglodytis@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] thatguy_ie@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I've got a few

  1. Pi 4 with a 1tb SSD for my proxmox backups
  2. Octopi for 3d printer
  3. One running as a Spotify connect client for some "dumb" bose speakers in the lounge
[-] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 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.

[-] Violet_McQuasional@feddit.uk 1 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 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.

[-] thayer@lemmy.ca 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.

[-] turing_spider574@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

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

[-] MrMcGasion@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] ebits21@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

I have 3 of the 3rd generation ones to mess around on.

[-] erre@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] Decronym@lemmy.decronym.xyz 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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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