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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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[–] mintyfrog@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

I run a Pi Zero W over wifi as my backup pi-hole so that clients can still connect if my main system is updating or down. Planning to get a more powerful one for OctoPrint.

[–] mondoman712@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I have a Turing pi V2, currently with only one CM4 module in it, running some *arrs, paperless, smb and some monitoring.

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[–] Vex_Detrause@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Raspberry Pi 3 B+ with Pihole. Its hard to look at websites without Pihole. Oh! I have another running Octopi for my 3D printer.

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[–] ninekeysdown@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Testing ideas with kubernetes before moving to the POC stage

[–] Violet_McQuasional@feddit.uk 1 points 2 years 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.

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

[–] Sertou@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years 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.

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.

[–] merikus@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

I have a Pi4 that is running Homebridge and pihole.

[–] chepox@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 years 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.

[–] CoopaLoopa@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 years ago

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.

[–] Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 1 points 2 years 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.

[–] PseudoSpock@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 years ago

K3's cluster, Gitlab, Ghost, Nextcloud, Elastic stack, and some other stuff.

[–] Darkscryber@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

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.

[–] Vox_Ursus@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I currently have Pi-hole and Unbound running on my pi4

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I'm only using Pi 4 hardware:

  • OpenWrt gigabit routers with SQM, multiple locations
  • Home Assistant Yellow
  • NAS with RAID1 (mirror), deprecated
[–] mesamunefire@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

I used to use them for all my setups. Then the shortages stopped that. Nowadays I just use one big server.

[–] acceptable_pumpkin@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

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.

[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Pi 4 running Home Assistant.

A second one sitting in a box meant to be the first of a cluster, until they disapeared

[–] MrMcGasion@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years 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.

[–] thayer@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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.

[–] dbilitated@aussie.zone 1 points 2 years ago (4 children)

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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[–] seaQueue@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

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.

[–] turing_spider574@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years 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

[–] Vub@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

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!

[–] KelsonV@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years 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.

[–] KiofKi@feddit.de 1 points 2 years 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.

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