- One early RPi I bought when RPi was very new to the market. I played around with it for a while and then I put it in a drawer.
- Months later I pulled it out of the drawer and started hosting my website on it for a while. I have since moved on from using RPi at home for hosting any of my sites. Might do again at some point in time.
- I use an SBC as one of the pieces of electronics that I use for controlling over 9000 LED pixels on a sculpture for which I created the light setup and programming. The LED strips we bought are from China and were supposed to be IP65 but even so we now have a bunch of the pixels showing only red, which is bad. No fault of the SBC. Also the SBC in this installation is not an RPi. But relevant nonetheless.
- I hooked up an image sensor with a lens to an RPi and put it in a surveillance camera housing, and added PoE to it. Currently not in use but would like to deploy somewhere in the future if given the chance to do so.
- I have an RPi that I have connected a 5TB drive to in an enclosure I bought from AliExpress. This RPi I both ssh into from my phone to download things for the future, and I also run a squid proxy on it via which one of my laptops connect.
Yup. That’s actually what I did :)
And then the reason I stopped hosting my site on my RPi was because I felt like, well if I depend on Cloudflare anyways, I might as well just use a VPS, or GitHub pages, or Cloudflare Pages :p
But there is something appealing in hosting things from home still. And doubly so when doing it without relying on Cloudflare etc
What I will do however, is that next time I set up some internet reachable hosting of content at home I will maintain one version of it that is directly served from the machine at home itself, and then I will keep an up to date copy of it on one of my externally hosted servers.
I also wired up my garage remote to it, so I can hit a web page to open up my garage.
Is that much processing power necessary? Not even a little, but hey now it hosts its own web UI (local network only).
Firmware (Elixir, nerves): https://github.com/benwilson512/coffee_time/blob/a49814e5d8a...
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- One for hosting low usage applications at home network (Unifi controller and some more).
- Octoprint (https://octoprint.org) connected to the 3d-printer.
- One on my desk for hardware hacking – mostly as just a PC with GPIO.
- Some wireless Raspberry Pi Zeros as security cameras.
* Squeezebox music system
* Plex video library
* Homeassistant home automation
* Retropie gaming
* PiHole ad blocker (I have a second older pi running just this for redundancy)
* Running a couple of minor web services and scripts on cron jobs.
- VPN server (Wireguard)
- Network ad blocking (Pihole)
- DNS resolver (unbound)
- DynamicDNS client
All running in Docker containers.
- Home Assistant for home automation.
Previously I've also used the RPi 3 running AirPlay and hooked up to external speakers as a poor man's Sonos.
Thank you for the laugh.
A Rpi3 as an octoprint server for my 3D oeubter, including canera feed.
A friend uses his as a HomeAssistant server to monitor and manage his home lights, temperature and garden watering needs.
And I have one as a nifty remote KVM (TinyPilot) that we also use for work. Connect it to the Internet and a PC and you can control that machine remotely.
Also use it as a Windows RDP thinclient.
And to tinker on electronic projects.
I have another PI in a drawer as backup. I replaced all of them with Odroid since it became nearly impossible to buy Pis. I wonder if they'll start to make them available again to normal people but I don't know if I'm trusting the company anyway.
I use a USB 3.0 Ethernet cable for the second port. It can keep up just fine.
Custom cron job that uses:
And last but not least just a Linux machine to ssh into to play around with.
Connectivity can tilt towards RPi, you can do vpn, ipv6, mobile data (if you use a usb stick), ethernet etc.
Funny thing is that modern 3G/4G/5G modems are full System-On-Chip computers themselves supporting virtualization. The Qualcomm Snapdragon MSM8916 is a popular SoC used for LTE dongles that runs the modem Baseband Real-time OS and Debian/Android OS on the same CPU.
If you mean a Raspberry Pi 1, try RISC OS.
Very un-Unix-like, predates Linux by nearly a decade. Single-core and goes very fast on a Pi 1.
* Download agent (i.e. torrent, JDownloader, ARIA)
* Tailscale exit node
* Endlessh tarpit
* Sadly more reliable than my Mac Mini when running server workloads (lots of open SMB files crash MacOS)
And all of this at quite a low power dissipation, which is the primary expense in running a home server.
I don't do these things, but could:
* PiHole
* Kodi or Plex STB
* Add a hat and have an indoor air quality monitor or similar
One for Stratum 0 NTP server (using GSP module with PPS)
One for Home Assistant
One for monitoring the solar power at my cabin, using a 4G USB device to send data home.
The Home Assistant runs on a 4B, the others are using 3B's and a clone (NanoPi Zero).
Got some Pi 4's that I use for various Linux experimentation and such. Sometimes I find it easier to get a Pi 4 up and running than a VM, and other times I need the GPIOs.
- nextcloud
- django test environment
- pihole
- simple NAS
1. Mox mail server at home (PTR record set up with ISP) - https://github.com/mjl-/mox.
2. Web server (no external hosting hurray); TLS set up via LetsEncrypt.
3. Navidrome for streaming my music collection to my phone/computers. I ripped my thousands of CDs to MP3. I use subtracks on my phone for listening to it, and sonixd on my computers (Mac/PC). https://github.com/navidrome/navidrome
4. mpd for driving some speakers via a USB audio interface so I can use some speakers plugged into the Pi for listening to music in the same room as the Pi (practicing guitar). I control this via the Supersonic app on my phone.
5. Wireguard VPN so I can connect home.
6. PiHole for my network at home. Combined with Wireguard, it means my phone is permanently connected to my home network and gets ad-blocking and stops apps dialing home. I use DroidHole on my phone to see what's going on.
7. xrdp server running, so a usable desktop is always available.
8. miniDLNA running connected to a NAS box so that I can watch all my DVDs easily on my TV downstairs (I spent weeks ripping them).
9. Tuya IoT API for turning some smart plugs in the house on/off via cronjob; I do this instead of using the timer in their app because it means my phone can be off the network/abroad and these plugs/lights still turn on/off.
10. linx-server (https://github.com/andreimarcu/linx-server) for sharing files so that I don't have to use Google Drive and share with people that way.
11. Peer Calls (https://github.com/peer-calls/peer-calls) so I can video conference in decent quality without having to use Google Meet / Teams etc. I also host a STUN and TURN server on the Pi so that Peer Calls works behind NAT.
It fetches time over NTP on a cron job. It also blocks various ASNs and IPs by country on a cron job to stop annoying remote pests and cloud providers. It also runs Monitorix so I can see system load, and goaccess on a cron job so that I can see who's hitting my website without having to resort to analytics nonsense.
It boots from USB3 (it has a NVMe in an IcyBox caddy).
Incredibly useful device.
At home I've got one for Home Assistant, one as a TV box because Netflix's sharing blocking check is only on smart TV apps. I've also got multiple as 3D printer controllers (klipper/octoprint).
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I will explore a way to use a RP4 or now RP5 for a local NAS that would be extensible and that could run more services and yool that my current QNAP TS-28A but I'm not very confident I will follow
* 1 CM4 for a PiKVM on my desktop (my main home server uses a proprietary iLO).
* 1 CM4 as router running OpenWrt, to replace my ER-Lite.
* 3 CM4s in a Turing Pi 2, one Jetson Orin for ML. This is my homelab. The CM4 are running Dietpi.
* 2 RPi4 as remote VPN (Wireguard) endpoints to do tech support for my mother-in-law and mother. Also serves as Jellyfin server containing old movies, and jumphost for NAS backup.
* 2 RPi0 2 W with Enviro+. One indoor, one outdoor (with different, custom 3D printed casings). Runs Raspbian, will switch these to Dietpi.
* 1 RPi3 for with my portable HackRF (with custom 3D printed case). Batteries included!
* 1 RPi0 W for Pwnagotchi. Not really used anymore but too cute to break.
* 1 RPi0 W for Pimoroni grow to track water management in plants (with 3D printed case). Need to get that project moving, it is for my mother.
* 1 RPi3, 1 CM4 unused as backup for if something breaks.
* 1 RPi2, 1 RPi0 W unused for nothing.
The 1 RPi3, 1 CM4, 1 RPi2, 1 RPi0 W I should sell as they're right now 'Raspberry Piles'. Won't use them. Once I get a 3D printer I might need Octoprint, I suppose I could use one of these machines for that.
CM is the computer module, right? what kind of "board" do you use the CM4 with to use it as a router?
Right now it is hooked up on my switch. I intend to put it between my desktop and my switch and run some iperf3. Because I'll get fiber soon, and I'd like to be able to saturate that.
Pi4 for SSH server and general arm64 playground.
Pair of Pi4 running Ardupilot and OpenHD, one on my quadcopter, one driving the base station monitor and antenna tracker.
I have a raspberry pi running a spotify connect implementation outputting audio to the amp via usb. It sits there and silently (or, well, not so silently) works; it's great!
There's some mucking with alsa to get it set up, but under 90 minutes.