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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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[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

Open Media Vault on a pi setup with external hard drive. Mainly for Samba Shares, and added the DAAP server. And since it comes with portainer I used that to setup HomeAssistant, Syncthing, CUPS, kanboard, whoogle, and Trilium Notes. Amazing little piece of tech.

[–] AlecStewart1st@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I got a RPi 3B as my Pi-Hole that I'll eventually use as my Wireguard VPN, too. Hoping to get another Pi device for hosting Jellyfin on.

[–] Boring@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

I bought a pi0 when I first started hosting things. It ran a pihole and piVPN instance for about 3-4 years before it died.

I would love to have another one, they are great pieces of hardware.. but are just scalped to hell. I'll keep buying old desktops and laptops with higher specs for cheaper until the costs go down.

[–] ptrckstr@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I have one 3B running adguard and a wireguard vpn server. Another 4B doing the same, plus kitchenowl and home assistant.

[–] Lyricism6055@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Only use it as a backup pihole now. Used to have an *arr stack on it, but needed a beefier pc

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.

[–] 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.

[–] Sertou@lemmy.world 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.

[–] 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.

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 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
[–] 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.

[–] yournamehere@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

pi3 once died on me so i tried pine64 sbc and they never die...so no, i wont buy pis anymore.

[–] 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.

[–] 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.

[–] KelsonV@lemmy.world 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.

[–] 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.

[–] 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.

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

I have a Pi4 that is running Homebridge and pihole.

[–] 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.

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