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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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[–] freeman@lemmy.pub 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I have 3.

  1. Dakboard above the fridge shows calendar and shared photo album. It also runs bluetooth and serves as a relay for Homeassitant and a few kitchen devices (ie: igrill mini probe for meat).

  2. pikvm for a desktop

  3. pikvm+ kvm for lab rack esxi servers.

the latter two also run tailscale and allow me to SSH proxy if needed as a back VPN/remote access utility.

There is also a 4th. It runs NUT/UPS tools for their network gear and a mail relay for alerting and also tailscale so I can proxy if necessary.

Since its tailscale etc. Only key based auth is allowed on these boxes.

[–] darcmage@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

All the arrs, HA, pihole and a few smaller containers running on pi4. It was my gateway into the world of self hosting.

[–] 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!

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

I have been for about a year with one 8gb Pi 4 with a 500gb ssd. I bought it as a way to dip my toes into self hosting. Started with Home Assistant OS, but now I have a bunch of containers set up, such as Home Assistant, Plex, Sonarr, Radarr, Prowlarr, qbittorrent, and a few others. I will eventually get something a little beefier to host my media, but will absolutely keep the Pi running.

[–] 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.

[–] 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.

[–] 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

[–] 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.

[–] 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.

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

I have a Pi4 that is running Homebridge and pihole.

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

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

[–] digger@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years 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.

[–] 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.

[–] 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.

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

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

[–] 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
[–] 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

[–] 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.

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

Home Assistant setup, along with media hosting for a hard drive full of all my music and movies.

[–] 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.

[–] 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

[–] 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.

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

I use it for WOL on my PC

[–] 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.

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

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

[–] Holzkohlen@feddit.de 1 points 2 years ago

Pi 3b to run syncthing

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

[–] mondoman712@lemmy.ml 1 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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