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?

  • ptrck@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    10 months ago

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

  • Dandroid@dandroid.appEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I own a raspberry pi 4. Every time I try to use it, I spend half my time trying to fix the stuttery/non responsive UI by fucking with the compistor and such. And then I give up.

    I eventually got a new gaming PC and turned my old one into a Linux server, and haven’t really touched my Raspberry Pi since.

    • notfromhere@lemmy.oneEnglish
      11·
      10 months ago

      Try running a server image on it without desktop and then logging into it over the network from another device like a laptop via ssh

      • Dandroid@dandroid.appEnglish
        0·
        10 months ago

        My usecase required a GUI. I was trying to have a mini PC connected to my TV to watch live sports games in a web browser (pirated streams). I was getting micro stutters with a raspberry pi, which made sports unwatchable.

  • ᓰᕵᕵᓍ@lemmy.mlEnglish
    2·
    10 months ago

    RPI4/400 is perfectly capable as a little home server. All it needs is a good SD card.

    Owntracks,photoprism,monocker,brave go m-sync,libre photos,wallabag,radicals e,Baikal,Firefox sync,Joplin web,webdav server,jellyfin,vaultwarden,wireguard

    • ByteWizard@lemm.eeEnglish
      21·
      10 months ago

      Get an eMMC module ($10) for the Pi or buy something similar with one built-in. Much faster and more reliable.

  • Decipher0771@lemmy.caEnglish
    2·
    10 months ago

    I have 2 Pi 4s in operation. One is a Moonlight/USBoverIP stream gaming portal. It automatically turns on and connects to a VM running Sunshine on my Proxmox host, passes any USB controllers/bluetooth etc to the VM so the big loud gaming box is in the basement and the tiny Pi is next to the TV. 1080p60 works great, minimal lag.

    The other acts mostly as a quorum server for the proxmox servers, I have two proxmox hosts and use the second Pi to ensure the cluster doesn’t get split brain. It also acts as a USBoverIP host for my home automation Zigbee and Zwave usb sticks, so that either proxmox host can connect to the USB sticks and the home automation VMs aren’t locked to a physical host.

  • Boring@lemmy.mlEnglish
    2·
    10 months 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.

  • cestvrai@lemm.eeEnglish
    1·
    10 months ago

    I have a Pi4 running octoprint, pi-hole and some of my own containers.

    The rest I run on a Hetzner VM.

  • Violet_McQuasional@feddit.ukEnglish
    1·
    10 months 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.

  • Kaldo@kbin.social
    1·
    10 months ago

    I feel old, I don’t understand 90% of words in this thread lol.

    I just have kodi on Libreelec with a jellyfin plugin on my rpi4 and even that struggled with overheating at times. So I run most stuff on my pc instead. I’m tempted to try the portainer to get some experience with docker tho.

  • Decronym@lemmy.decronym.xyzBEnglish
    1·
    9 months 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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  • 𝙚𝙧𝙧𝙚@programming.devEnglish
    1·
    9 months 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.

  • Tiritibambix@lemmy.mlEnglish
    1·
    10 months ago

    I use a RPi3 for pihole and a RPi4 with debian + docker to host a bunch of stuff (in no spécific order): goaccess-for-nginxproxymanager

    filebrowser

    smokeping

    searxng

    duplicati

    whoogle

    nginx-proxy-manager

    flaresolverr

    linkding

    ntfy

    changedetection.io

    librex

    shlink

    speedtest-tracker

    unbound

    wg-easy

  • operator@kbin.social
    0·
    10 months ago

    Using Pi’s to run services in my homelab which I want to keep separate from my server (to have some sort of failover in case the server goes down). Status/Monitoring, VPN server and so on