How many Raspberry Pis do you have and what are they used for?

Troop · 23 Mar 2023 at 18:57

PI3b+ running Venus OS running all the Victron gear in the camper, 10 second vid of it doing its stuff. (finished the install today)

Rensin · 25 Mar 2023 at 15:48

I've noticed lately that my philips Hue bridge has a large amount of requests compared to normal (19001) .. apart from unblocking the domain's that it keeps trying to connect to is there any other way of stopping the constant trying to connect?

I don't need the cloud side of things so have also blocked any outbound connection via firewall.

the-evaluator · 27 Mar 2023 at 09:24

Is your Hue Bridge using DHCP? You could give it a static IP address and not give it a default gateway and DNS server.

Or, just ignore it. Pi-Hole is blocking it anyway.

Feek · 8 Apr 2023 at 20:21

The detailed Pi-hole discussion had gone a long way off topic so I've moved the posts into the Pi-hole thread. Our discussion about adlists starts around here:

Setting up Pi-hole

A quick note for those that run pihole from an Ubuntu VM, the minimum Ubuntu version that pihole now supports is 20.04 - just had to upgrade a couple of 18.04 VM instances which I and a friend host.

forums.overclockers.co.uk

the-evaluator · 8 Jul 2023 at 08:52

Now that it's possible to actually buy a Pi I've been making some changes so now have the following.

Pi 4, 4Gb. Pi-Hole & Sonos HTTP API so that I can group speakers using Siri Shortcuts.
Pi 4, 2Gb. 2nd Pi-Hole. Kept in sync with primary Pi-Hole using gravity sync. Runs an rsync job to download backups of my UniFi controller and push them to OneDrive.
Pi 4, 4Gb. Flight tracker reporting to Flight Aware & Flight Radar 24. Also running a RIPE Atlas Probe.
Pi 4, 2Gb. PiVPN (WireGuard & OpenVPN) & Cloudflare Tunnels endpoint.
Pi 4, 4Gb. Home Assistant.

They're all powered using PoE HAT's and using the Pi Hut PoE case. Quality of the case is pretty poor, but they do the job.

jrwagh333 · 9 Jul 2023 at 07:12

I was thinking of grabbing another 4b just to learn web hosting.

mountaincow · 22 Jul 2023 at 23:24

One pi zero w which I was running home assistant on for a while - it's a bit slow for this but worked for my use case with a few devices. That was quite fun and got me into programming again for a side project I wanted to use with it, which eventually led to a job.
I also have a single Pico which I'm using in an input labs alpakka controller which is quite an interesting project..

the-evaluator · 24 Jul 2023 at 08:26

jrwagh333 said:
I was thinking of grabbing another 4b just to learn web hosting.

I wouldn't bother TBH. Web hosting as a commodity is so inexpensive that running your own it's worth the hassle.

Cyber-Mav · 25 Jul 2023 at 19:38

the-evaluator said:
I wouldn't bother TBH. Web hosting as a commodity is so inexpensive that running your own it's worth the hassle.

Its worth it or not?

spile · 26 Jul 2023 at 06:42

I run a RPI 4 as a VPN server running Wireguard. Used when I need to access my NAS or camera NVR remotely.

During lockdown, I bought a few ESP32 modules. A lot cheaper than the PI (and easier to get hold of at the time of writing) and during lockdown I turned a dumb analog burglar alarm into a smart alarm, with web access and email notifications. Great fun.

the-evaluator · 26 Jul 2023 at 06:56

Cyber-Mav said:
Its worth it or not?

I don't think so. Web hosting from home isn't worth the bother in my opinion when you look at how cheap commercial hosting is. That commercial hosting will be more reliable, more up to date and faster.

I've done it in the past (I used to host loads of stuff at home) but really don't see the point these days.

Feek · 26 Jul 2023 at 17:03

Enjoyed this.

niggyg · 5 Aug 2023 at 09:08

Almost a full Pi family here.

Pi Zero W - runs retro pie in a handheld gameboy like shell.
Pi 1 with 128MB ram, the earlier first one. Currently unused.
Pi 2 - runs pi hole attached to my router
Pi 3 - currently unused
Pi 4 - Runs retro pie, sometimes attach it to tv.

fish · 5 Aug 2023 at 11:08

4x zeros for cctv
1 x 4 for unifi controller and pihole
1x 4 for home assistant
1x 4 for thin client in shed
2x 3 for future greenhouse project
1x zero w for bee monitoring

picnic · 6 Aug 2023 at 09:40

How do you monitor bees? Camera I guess but is there something extra to recognise and count them or something?

fish · 6 Aug 2023 at 09:54

I am planning to add 4 load cells to the corners of the hive to give me a live read out of the hive weight so I can determine the amount of honey in the supers. Also as you have said a camera to watch coming and going along with a temp humidity sensor for hive internals

picnic · 6 Aug 2023 at 20:30

Cool, sounds good.

hornetstinger · 8 Aug 2023 at 11:44

Self contained pi /LMS/HDD array could be useful, ideally in one box, one PSU, etc.

Mercurial · 8 Aug 2023 at 17:43

Current RPi in use;

1x Pi 4 8GB - PLEX
1x Pi 4 8GB - Pi-Hole, network DHCP, Transmission.
1x Pi 4 4GB - OpenWrt, started off as being a bit of a novelty to mess with SQM, but I am surpised how good it is (replacing my Vodafone router on a 500mb/s Openreach connection).

Then i've got a 2x 1B, a 2B and 2x 3B sitting around waiting for a use (it sounds wasteful, but I have been using RPi since their release).

fish · 8 Aug 2023 at 19:06

how is the pi with plex on and 8gb? I tried it on a 2gb and it was quite lethargic.