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Amazing. If only I'd get my act together and do all the amazing stuff I planned when I bought my first pi - then I could justify buying this
by cconcepts 11y ago
Amazing. If only I'd get my act together and do all the amazing stuff I planned when I bought my first pi - then I could justify buying this
- girishso 11y agoTwo years after buying mine, I put the pi to a good use only last week! Now I am using it as ad-blocker thanks to http://pi-hole.net/ http://pi-hole.net/, works like a charm. I ported the web interface for pi-hole to Go single executable (https://github.com/girishso/pi-hole-web https://github.com/girishso/pi-hole-web) Now looking for something interesting to do on my second pi! Edit: Added pi-hole-web link.
- bambax 11y agoThat's great, thanks!! I have a pi as a media server* connected to a projector via HDMI, that reads media files from a NAS on my home network; very efficient and lightweight. I will definitely try pi-hole; maybe I can have both running on the same pi. * via Raspbmc, which I just found out has apparently ceased to exist...
- simon_vetter 11y ago> * via Raspbmc, which I just found out has apparently ceased to exist... Try OSMC [1], it's a massive improvement over Raspbmc and is being developed actively. Works like a charm. If I'm correct, the main Raspbmc dev went over to OSMC a while back. [1] https://osmc.tv https://osmc.tv
- bambax 11y agoYes, thanks, but for now raspbmc works really well, I'm not sure I want to go through the whole update now unless there's a big compelling reason. I might upgrade to a 2B though, it's probably a lot faster (the current setup tends to freeze a little on rapidly changing frames).
- newman314 11y agoYou have to overclock to about 900 to get the resposiveness up. Both of mine are perfectly stable at that speed.
- 3onyc 11y agoOSMC is actually the successor of Raspbmc (And Crystalbuntu) http://kodi.wiki/view/OSMC http://kodi.wiki/view/OSMC
- pjc50 11y agoMy frequently asked question: if I want to watch and record DVB-T television, what media centre solution should I be using?
- ZenoArrow 11y agohttp://kodi.wiki/view/Tvheadend_PVR http://kodi.wiki/view/Tvheadend_PVR
- unfocused 11y agoI have been running the Pi since 2012 from the early days of Raspbmc to OSMC and sometime in 2013 starting watching and recording television using it. I have ATSC (North American Over-The-Air TV) which is similar to DVB-T. I use an HDHomerun Network TV tuner. I watch using my Pi running OSMC and an Add-on for DVBLink, and when I select record, I use DVBLink software which runs on my Synology NAS. DVBLink however is paid software that can run on the Pi, as well as many other platforms (Windows, Linux, Asustor, Netgear, QNAP, Synology, Western Digital). I tried using TVHeadend but found the interface and support of DVBLink to be better. My other Pi currently runs Volumio (https://volumio.org https://volumio.org) for music streaming.
- atmosx 11y agoHow much RAM does it take? I mean if it runs with less than 250 MB of free RAM I can deploy this right away, without using a dedicated RPi (I have 2 RPis on my network, the one is doing some heavy lifting, the other one has many cycles to spare).
- girishso 11y agoNot much, currently it's using 1.6% RAM of 512MB. Even CPU usage seems negligible. After all, it's just acting as a DNS server, only resolving the DNS queries.. not to mention blocking the ad domains!
- herbst 11y agoHow does it do performance wise? I can only imagine that DNS + Blocklist checking is already a big task for a PI. I always wanted to have something like this, and am on the search for something like a PI but a bit better since then.
- girishso 11y agoIt works pretty well, in fact page loading times have significantly reduced for me, may be because it caches the DNS records locally. I think PI is good enough for this purpose.
- jbssm 11y agoWhat is the difference between this and privoxy with an ad blocker?
- privacy101 11y agolooks like a great idea but doesn't it significantly slow down your network? I think I would rather install an ad-blocker on a tomato/dd-wrt/open-wrt router...
- nebula 11y agoI just love the idea.I may finally put my Pi for some good use. I am hoping enough people have looked at it to trust this with my network.
- prophet_ 11y agoAmusing that most people I speak to (including myself) fall into this category. Great deal nonetheless, especially when considering the bit where he mentioned being much faster that version 1, which is considerably slow if you ask me.
- vidarh 11y agoThey're cheap enough to be a "cool, I have to play with this" impulse buy... At last count I've got about 7-8 different devices like this sitting around that I've aspired to play around with at one time or other, all of them have seen way too little use.
- k__ 11y agoI know what you mean. I have a Tessel here (Nodejs base micro controller) and never used it...
- gohai 11y agoSame here. Had them laying around for two years before I dusted them off to port Processing to it (shameless plug: https://github.com/processing/processing/wiki/Raspberry-Pi https://github.com/processing/processing/wiki/Raspberry-Pi). Still haven't done anything truly original, but I learned a lot about the hardware and the kernel writing the scaffolding and plumbing - and hoping that this will make the curve less steep for the ones that do.
- teh_klev 11y agoLol...I'm the same. I have four of the sodding things (Pi#1-B, revised Pi#1-B and two of the model 2 B's) complete with PSU's...all sitting in a box. So many plans, so little time.
- tibbon 11y agoI wonder if the problem for most of us isn't the money, but just the time. A cheap computer probably doesn't give us any more time/ease than an expensive computer (which we probably already have 1+ of)