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

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gives you the flexibility of being able to add additional files located in LOCALSOURCEDIR2 and 3 to the sync.

That was my logic. I did rebuild my second one to Buster yesterday evening anyway, even though it was all working before. It didn't take long and it was nice to let the sync sort itself out and the lists to all get copied over automatically. I've changed the cron job to run gravity each night rather than just once a week so my blocklists were all synchronised when I got up this morning.

 

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and acting as an ntp server

I'm interested in how you've set this up.

 

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Have a look at this

Will do, thanks.

 

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This seems like the best one so far.

I haven't used that one but I have two of these for multiple Pis and they're working perfectly.

 

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How many do you have hooked up to one socket?

One is running five Pis, the other has four connected.

 

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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

 

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Enjoyed this.

 

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I did try a Pi 4 for Plex and it's perfectly fine providing you don't need to transcode. But my brother accesses my library over the internet and so a lot of the higher bit rate stuff I have has to be transcoded for him and it just wasn't fit for purpose.

 

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They're already taking pre-orders for Pi 5?

I must be living under a rock because I haven't heard anything news regarding the pi 5 lol.

Announced this morning.

Raspberry Pi 5

Featuring a 64-bit quad-core Arm Cortex-A76 processor running at 2.4GHz, Raspberry Pi 5 delivers a 2-3x increase in CPU performance relative to Raspberry Pi 4! Raspberry Pi 5 also brings with it a huge list of great new features and improvements, making this the best Raspberry Pi yet! Welcome to...

thepihut.com

 

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OK, I'm as guilty as the rest of us but let's keep the RPi5 talk in this thread:

Raspberry Pi 5 Announced!

https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/introducing-raspberry-pi-5/ I hope they come out with a refresh of the more affordable boards, at this price point for the base model (4GB) is the Raspberry Pi loosing its charm? I would like to see a Raspberry Pi 4/5 A+ with 1GB for £30

forums.overclockers.co.uk

(I've moved some posts over there)

 

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What's with having two Pi-Holes? Are they on different subnets?

I don't know about @the-evaluator but I run two for redundancy using Pi Zero 2s with ethernet adapters. They both run DHCP and my scope is split between them. Each one gives out itself as primary DNS and the other one as secondary.

 

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Pihole will work perfectly adequately on an original pi zero

 

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@Feek I believe you have this?

Yeah but I probably overcomplicate things.

I have each Pi set with half my DHCP scope, so one gives out 192.168.1.50 to 192.168.1.100 and the other gives out 192.168.101 to 192.168.1.150. But I largely use reserved addresses for devices.

I have a script on a cron job that copies /etc/hosts file and /etc/dnsmasq.d/04-pihole-static-dhcp.conf from one Pi to the other and if I make changes I kick that script off manually.

There must be better ways of doing it.

 

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That's a good point. I think the Pi 2 B has 1GB RAM, so maybe I could use that for RetroPie + PiHole

Pi-hole on my Pi Zero 2W is using 75Mb of the available 512Mb with 63 attached clients. It might >need< 512Mb but it certainly doesn't use it.

 

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Name all of your 63 devices...

Hmm, nope.

There are three people in this house, everyone's got multiple devices, phones, tablets, watches, kindles etc. Smart speakers in all rooms (some are stereo pairs), all the RPis, my ham radio transceivers have ethernet, three printers, ring doorbell and threee chimes, telly, consoles, appletv, sky box. Weather station. Three access points, three switches, laptops, desktops, VOIP phone, work laptop etc etc. There are bound to be more that I can't remember.
Then there's a pair of P2P links to my daughters flat where there are two adults there, so all their associated things, plus his kids have laptops, consoles, phones etc.

I have two Pi-holes, both running on Zero 2 Ws, they both tend to have around 60 clients on each of them. Yes, there's a lot on my network. No, my 80/20 connection isn't fast enough!

 

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I don't really know what the Pico boards are for.

 

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All sorts of things; IOT and little sensor boards, controlling robots/model railways etc., addons for flight simulators.

Ahh, so they're the RPi Gucci version of arduinos?

And for fun.

This is as good a reason as any

 

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Lots of words there @Frozennova, I don't really understand most of them so I'll just back out now

beep beep beep feek reversing

 

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I bought a Pi 2W and an e-ink hat to have a tinker with

This is my first attempt using Python, it uses some API's to get weather and energy data.

My first time using Python (I might have used ChatGPT and Co-Pilot a bit....), really enjoyed it.

I really like that. Tell us more about that display.

 

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I think you need to get that power consumption under control!

That is a lot of gigawatts!

27.18 GW of demand.

It only takes 1.21GW for time travel